[governance] Speakers for IGF - new faces?

[Robert Guerra]

Adam:

If i'm not mistaken, a 100,000 CDN (which is now = 100,000 USD btw)  
fund was contributed by government of Canada for participation from  
developing countries at the IGF.

Has there been any details and/or an application process identified  
as to how some or part of that fund could be accessed by CS speakers?

I ask not only as a caucus member, but also as a Canadian Taxpayer...


regards,

Robert
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Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.ca>
Managing Director, Privaterra
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On 21-Sep-07, at 12:01 AM, Adam Peake wrote:

> At 7:31 PM +0200 9/20/07, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>> Adam Peake ha scritto:
>>> It is not at all pleasing to write "We have no money to bring  
>>> anyone, the meeting starts in 8 weeks.  Suggest only recommending  
>>> people who are going to be there (or have a very good chance of  
>>> being there.)" This situation should not have been allowed to  
>>> happen.
>>
>> You mean we could have started earlier? Yes we could, but alas, up  
>> to one month ago there was not even an AG...
>
>
> Exactly, I meant up until a month ago there was not even an  
> advisory group.  Nothing to do with the caucus, not blaming you and  
> Parminder for global warming or the mess with speakers :-)  My  
> problem is with whoever/whatever caused the delays throughout the  
> year.  I've said something about speakers at every consultation  
> this year, this from February:
>
> "And when Mr. Geiger was giving the dates of the on the WSIS  
> meeting, it
> reminded me the meeting in Athens was really prepared in a little over
> five and a half months and we are now about eight and a half months  
> out
> from the Rio meeting, and so I know that, Chairman, you said you were
> going to emphasize that we have to get moving and moving fast.  But it
> really is time now to start approaching speakers to ask them if  
> they can
> come and speak at that meeting.  We can't just ask them to leave a  
> week
> free at the end of October and early November.  We have to be asking
> specific questions of them -- Can you speak on a topic on a day --  
> if we
> want high quality speakers to be joining these panels.
>
> And that means getting an agenda ready and drafted as soon as  
> possible.
>
> If we want to have workshops that are integrated into the agenda, as
> many of the people have commented should happen more during the
> stock-taking session, that seemed to be something that was  
> important to
> many people, that we had a more coherent mix of workshops into the
> general agenda, then we have to get the requests for workshops out as
> soon as possible.
>
> So I really do hope that you can emphasize this need for urgency to  
> the
> secretary-general, because otherwise, we're going to end up in the  
> same
> situation as Athens.  And while that was a successful meeting, we have
> to make Rio a better meeting." (end quote)
>
>
> Michael, same response: the post-Athens taking stocking identified  
> lack of funds for participation as important to remedy -- number of  
> participants from developing nations was too low. I don't think  
> anything's been done.
>
> In no way blame the secretariat for this.
>
> Anyway, issues for the next taking stock session, not now.
>
> Adam
>
>
>
>> and the funding issue won't go away (unless we start focusing on  
>> how to make the IGF better and stronger, which is one of the  
>> objectives of our workshop). I think that Rio will suffer from  
>> "still growing up" even more than Athens, and possibly IGF 2008 as  
>> well - they will still be caught in the power struggles on how to  
>> give the IGF a more effective structure that can work in the long  
>> term.
>>
>> All in all, it took ICANN 5 to 10 years of quarterly meetings to  
>> get to a reasonably stable and functioning status.
>> --
>> vb.                   Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu    
>> <--------
>> -------->  finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/   
>> <--------
>
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