[governance] Host country agreement

[Kieren McCarthy]

Wrt to the wireless access issue.

What would be really good is if civil society could get together a small
group of network engineers who specialize in wireless access, and have some
experience of the strange laws that exist once you get past 20 people on a
wireless network, and offer them to the Secretariat as a consultancy.

They could knock up some basic rules to follow, or infrastructural
approaches, give them to the Brazilians and then turn up a day or two before
the actual meeting to test the network and clear out any bugs.

I've always thought the world is crying out for a Wiki-booklet on Wi-Fi
conference access and another on conference Webcasting. You see the same
mistakes again and again across the world.



Kieren



-----Original Message-----
From: Avri Doria [mailto:avri at psg.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 6:17 PM
To: Vittorio Bertola
Cc: Governance Caucus
Subject: Re: [governance] Host country agreement

<no longer under contract to IGF secretariat>

Hi,

In principle I agree it would be a good idea.  In practice, if things  
go as they have before in IGf and WSIS, the host country agreement  
will be signed long after the arrangements are pretty solid.

So i think it is important to ask, but the fact that they are in the  
agreement might not be the gating factor.

a.



On 20 feb 2007, at 12.23, Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> Jeanette Hofmann ha scritto:
>> The caucus statement last week mentioned a few things such as food.
> (and cheap accommodation)
>
>> Additionally I would find it important to have:
>> * enough shuttles between hotels and conference venue
> (perhaps also, though of course at a much lesser frequency, to  
> airport and city centre, unless there is adequate public  
> transportation available)
>> * storage rooms for computers
>> * the possibility to reserve additional rooms, i.e. for meetings  
>> of dynamic coalitions
>> * remote participation facilities need specification (this is  
>> taken care of elsewhere)
>> What else?
>
> * as good wi-fi coverage as possible in the rooms
> * power outlets in the rooms!
> * if possible, free/cheap wi-fi or wired Internet connectivity in  
> the hotels as well, maybe as part of the accommodation package.
> -- 
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