[governance] IGF financing

[Robert Guerra]

let's not forget that the government of Canada announced at the last  
IGF open consultation that they were contributing 100, 000 dollars  
exclusively for IGF fellowships . Perhaps not picked up on this list,  
but something that is significant.

At today's exchange rate, that is approx 93,670 USD or 70,381.264   
€ . If only other govts did the same we'd have funds not only for  
participation but also for a slightly larger secretariat.


regards,

Robert
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Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.ca>
Managing Director, Privaterra
Tel +1 416 893 0377




On 13-Jun-07, at 3:43 AM, William Drake wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 6/11/07 6:44 PM, "Bertrand de La Chapelle"  
> <bdelachapelle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, I'd be happy to learn what your own preference would be,  
>> what concrete solution you favor : just governments ? or just the  
>> UN ? or just some international organizations ? The key question  
>> is, again : what is the appropriate financing structure for the  
>> IGF in order to guarantee regularity of resources and independence  
>> from lobbies and pressure groups ? Can we address this issue  
>> calmly, with the attention it deserves ?
>>
> ------
>
> According to this news item from yesterday, www.theregister.co.uk/ 
> 2007/06/12/igf_nominet_2007/
>
> “Kummer has spent much of the last six months trying to win more  
> funding. At a meeting at Parliament last week, hosted by Nominet,  
> the not-for-profit which operates the .uk registry, the Department  
> of Trade and Industry announced it had found £23,000 down the back  
> of its sofas (the Swiss government has donated $500,000).”
>
> 174 states & the EU signed off on the Tunis Agenda creating the  
> IGF.  If just ten more could find some chump change in their sofas  
> (equivalent to about a nanosecond of their foreign affairs budgets,  
> or maybe one cocktail break at the G8), we (taxpayers all---to two  
> countries in the case of us unfortunate US expats) wouldn’t need to  
> have this conversation, the IGF could have something more like a  
> secretariat, and Markus could refocus his energies.  To me the  
> question is not can we shake micropayments out of individual  
> taxpayers and financially marginal NGOs, but rather what sort of  
> game are the governments playing here.
>
> Two cents,
>
> Bill
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