[governance] IGF financing

[Carlos Afonso]

It is clear IGF does not need contributions from all 174+ govs who 
agreed to create it -- if they (and more) did it, fine, but the total 
budget (including a far more significant amount to make sure Southern 
interest groups are better represented) is not a big one. I would 
suggest a cap (no one would contribute more than, say, 15% of the total 
budget, and there are no strings of any kind attached to any 
contribution), to make sure no single entity provides a big enough chunk 
of funding which would enable it to leverage decisions in its favor. 
Yes, and it would of course be open to contributions from 
non-governmental entities as well (pluralist participation and pluralist 
funding).

--c.a.

Robert Guerra wrote:
> 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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> 
> 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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