SV: [governance] Re: IGF Financing

[Kicki Nordström]

Dear Norbert,

I fully agree with you and find it very problematic if we must lean on rich companies and their wish to direct the development and influence!
Yours
Kicki  


Kicki Nordström
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Från: Norbert Bollow [mailto:nb at bollow.ch] 
Skickat: den 13 juni 2007 12:30
Till: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Ämne: [governance] Re: IGF Financing

Milton Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

> >>> nb at bollow.ch 6/11/2007 9:42 AM >>>
> >Would it be an improvement if the IGF process was funded out of the 
> >U.N. budget?
> 
> probably not. That would make it totally beholden to the nation-state 
> system.

Isn't that the case anyway?  Is there any way for the IGF to stop being accounatble to the U.N. and to the nation-state system?

My concern is that if the IGF starts to rely on significant financial contributions from industry special interests, that would cause a significant decrease in the level of integrity that we can expect from the IGF process with regard to topics that some rich companies don't want to see discussed, or about which they seek to promote some very one-sided perspective.

If you want an international multistakeholder process to discuss the future of the internet in a way that is not "beholden" to the U.N.
and to the nation-state system, let's work together on creating such a process.  I'm game.

Greetings,
Norbert.


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