[governance] Opening ceremony - with no Civil society presence

[Robert Guerra]

http://igf2006.info/node/297

I've just learned that access to the opening ceremony will be - quite -
restricted.

Despite being a key stakeholder - NGOs & Civil society will only be
assigned 100 passes to the session. Such a small number - well, is
shocking .

With no clear process nor mechanism defined to allocate and distribute
passes - one thing will be clear, only friends of an insider group will
be able to attend the session.

Thus, the message is clear from the start - there will be an Opening
ceremony - but with no real Civil society presence.

So much for a real and effective multi-stakeholder meeting..sigh!




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