[governance] The Cost of Participation

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Danny Younger [05/12/07 16:59 -0800]:
>Doing the math:  $352,800 for 21 people to attend an
>ICANN session for six days -- that's $16,800 per
>person to attend an ICANN function. Another way of
>looking at it, $7000 per person for airfare and $9,800
>per person for lodging for six days.
>
>Doesn't that strike you as being more than a tad
>expensive and a real barrier to participation?

Well, if you consult for the UN (or the ITU) - 

* They fly you coach - $7000 looks like first (not even business)

* There's a fixed per diem of the sort that doesnt really make you that
rich - even with delhi five star hotels starting from $300 on.

http://www.who.int/bfi/PerDiem/pdindex.asp

The new delhi per diem (hotel + food etc) - is $294 with 73% of it
allocated for hotel cost, for "special hotels" - five star hotels like the
Intercontinental, Grand Hyatt etc - (so probably at UN rates). Or $155 at
other hotels.

$9800 for lodging - that's more than $1600. Even if you count a large part
of that towards staff / logistics cost (based on man hours of work done to
book hotels and airfare, work with hotel / banquet staff to set up the
meeting rooms etc) .. that's a tolerable chunk of change there.

	srs
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