[governance] IGC - where to go and how to get there

[Veni Markovski]

At 01:48 PM 06.10.2006 '?.'  +0200, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>No political activism ever will work without enthusiasm and 
>volunteers - even when you have a NGO (take as an example our ISOC 
>chapters) you barely manage to collect funding to pay for costs and 
>direct expenses, you almost never get enough to hire professionals.

Actually I can take as an example different ISOC chapters, and there 
are different results. See ISOC-Netherland for example from the West, 
or ISOC-Bulgaria from the countries in transition.

>Bigger NGOs might be a different story, but then, what you are 
>proposing is in fact to start a new global "internet governance NGO", right?

No. What we may try to do is bring more and new people. How - doesn't matter.

>In my opinion, lobbying for institutions to put money on funding 
>people's attendance to meeting is a great idea (BTW, while you're 
>still on ICANN's Board, perhaps you could propose something like 
>that to ICANN; we tried to do it on our own, irregularly and very 
>limitedly, with the money we have for the ALAC). On the other hand, 
>turning the IGC into something that directly collects and allocates 
>money is IMHO a very bad idea.

I will definitely try to do something like that. Keep in mind, 
though, that ICANN budget is open, public, and you can see on your 
own if it has enough money. I think ISOC is a better organization to 
be addressed with this. It has a lot of money, coming from .org, and 
it should be used for such purposes.




Sincerely,
Veni Markovski
http://www.veni.com

check also my blog:
http://blog.veni.com


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