[governance] Host country agreement

[Carlos Afonso]

I am temporarily in a meeting out of town, hard to follow the 
discussion, but I can respond to this. The ICANN meeting in São Paulo 
was the first in a row of meetings since at least Luxembourg in which 
wi-fi worked, even in a room with more than 150 laptops connected 
simultaneously.

Techies from CGI.br were responsible for the Internet acess project at 
the venue, and we will count on them for IGF Rio and the related 
meetings. They could write the book Kieren is suggesting. ;)

frt rgds

--c.a.

Kieren McCarthy wrote:
> 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.
>> -- 
>> vb.                   Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu   <--------
>> -------->  finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/  <--------
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