[governance] Caucus at IGF stock taking meeting

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> Jeanette Hofmann ha scritto:
> 
>>>McTim wrote:
>>>
>>>A significant portion of which is already used to fund Internet
>>>Governance fora.
>>
>>Exactly, and I am just asking if the IGF could not be one of them.
> 
> 
> Just for the sake of precision, AFAIK ICANN made significant contributions
> to the funding of the IGF in Athens and of various items in the WSIS/WGIG
> process.

It did or at least budgeted one. For the sake of the IGF's independence, 
  it is not a very good solution to depend on donations from 
organizations  that fall under the IGF's mandate.
> 
> About the idea of making this flow of money compulsory, 

I see that, and my "refined" proposal was to apply for funding out of 
the .org profits as distributed by PIR.

jeanette


I think that it
> would be very difficult to make it palatable to those who pay ICANN's
> bill, namely registrars and registries, who always complain about any
> "political" use of ICANN's money. As there is no authority that can force
> all these companies in all these countries to collect money and give it to
> the IGF, I don't think it would fly unless you can really convince anyone
> that it's a Good Thing.
> 
> This would possibly require having much more concrete plans on who
> collects this money, how it is allocated, for what, what decision-making
> and management processes and entities are there... I mean, the IGF isn't
> even an incorporated entity with a budget, at this point in time. So if
> this is something that people really want to put on the table, it should
> be much more refined than this; putting it out as a vague "we want money"
> cry will only backfire.
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