Sponsor for Participation in the [governance] Summer School on Governance of the Internet

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Aaron, DIPLO has a lot of funding available.  So they can offer, and
publicize, fellowships.

 

A university in Germany - perhaps not as much?

 

Perhaps the material can be posted online or some other e-learning measures
can be worked out - they will work out cheaper, in both the short and the
long run than flying people to Germany for a summer's worth of courses. 

 

AFNOG - held along with AFRINIC meetings - does have a fellowships program
that may be relevant to Internet issues, and possibly to some internet
governance issues though from a technical standpoint.  I manage the
fellowships for two similar conferences, but they are focused on the asiapac
and on south asia respectively, so there's a regional requirement for
fellows, besides the obvious background / qualification etc requirements

 

Not to mention the "fun" developing country residents who don't have a
previous history of foreign travel can have when trying to apply for a visa.


 

Of course, there is a very high incidence of fraudulent applications at any
visa post, so they're bound to do due diligence.  And that can result in
situations where a process that can take minutes to apply + maybe a couple
of days to process for some people from developing countries can easily
become a long drawn out process for others.

 

                suresh

 

From: Nyangkwe Agien Aaron [mailto:nyangkweagien at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:03 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Suresh Ramasubramanian
Subject: Re: Sponsor for Participation in the [governance] Summer School on
Governance of the Internet

 

Suresh wrote 

"How would approaching an entire mailing list of people who, though they
know and respect Prof Kleinwachter, have no affiliation with this course,
or authority to award fellowships for it, assuming, of course, that a
fellowship program exists and that fellowships are being awarded?"

 A strategic and apt question. But then, one must understand that it was due
to the fact that no avenue was provided as to where to seek for sponsorship.
In normal cases, hints are provided about scholarships and applicants called
upon to channel their demands. DIPLO excels at this.

The organizers of the excellent programme (perharps so bogged down by
curricula activities involved in such a programme) took this aspect of
sponsorship lightly.

It is not late my very dear Suresh, just do provide the link where
applications for scholarship could be fowarded. This can help  in setting up
a data bank of some resources for the programme... for future use, who
knows.

 

Aaron




 

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