[governance] update on funding

[CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam]

Dear all, 

 

After some consultations and discussions with the IGF Secretariat and the
ITU, as well as with other expected or potential donors to the IGF, find
below the following clarifications on the various questions related to
financing participation raised on that list:

 

            - The Japanese contribution to the IGF Secretariat, which has
been mentioned on this list, has not yet been finalised and is therefore not
yet transferred to the IGF Secretariat. We are in touch with the IGF
Secretariat and we would therefore let you know whether anything in this
grant is earmarked for this grant for participation in the IGF Rio meeting.

 

            - The Canadian contribution to the ITU to finance the
participation of IG experts from developing countries in the Rio meeting has
already been partly (mostly) allocated to developing countries panellists in
some sessions of the IGF. However not the whole available funding has been
allocated, meaning that there is still a limited number of sponsorships
possible. (Among the criteria that have been and will be considered by the
ITU: experts coming from a developing country; candidates being able to
demonstrate a high expertise and a previous engagement on issues closely
related to Internet Governance and having a high profile in the field of
communications; in priority main contributors / speakers / panellists in one
of the workshops / sessions of the Internet Governance Forum meeting in Rio;
the ITU will also look at the geographical / gender diversity within its
final list of IGF participants receiving a grant. Is there any of you who
enters into this frame?).

 

            - Other potential donors have been in touch with the IGF
Secretariat and might be willing to consider earmarking (some of) their
grant to the participation of CS experts in the Rio IGF meeting, but nothing
has been finalized at this time. In any event the risk is now it would be
too late to be used for participants' funding.

 

We'll keep you posted. All the best, 

 

Philippe

 

 

 

Philippe Dam
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