[governance] IGF meeting

[Adam Peake]

Markus wrote "Our Indian hosts will give us a presentation of the 
venue at the consultations Tuesday." So let's to wait and see what 
they say, and can ask them to put presentations online.

Sylvia: sorry about the distance, but where ever the meeting's held 
it's going to be a 24 hour flight for someone (Rio from Tokyo for 
example.)

Adam



At 3:03 PM -0800 2/22/08, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>Jeanette Hofmann [22/02/08 15:09 +0000]:
>>Hi,
>>
>>now its official. The IGF meeting will take place in Hyderabad from 
>>3-6 December 2008. The Hyderabad International Convention Center 
>>(HICC) was chosen as the venue for the meeting.
>>The secretariat has visited the venue last week and is very happy 
>>with the choice. The hotel situation seems to be much better in 
>>Hyderabad.
>>jeanette
>
>Jesus. We checked that venue out and rejected it about a couple of years
>ago, for another conference, as -
>
>1. Fairly far from the main city (and along very crowded roads)
>
>2. The only large hotel that's at a walkable distance - the novotel - was
>quoting $225++ rates for the conference (though I could easily see $150
>type rates for the same hotel online, on the novotel website)
>
>3. Other hotels are at least half an hour or more away (and as I said,
>hyderabad traffic can get very very crowded, especially if the "flyovers"
>(overpasses) they have been building all over the place havent been
>completed
>
>4. Other than that, the city is a fun place, great food etc etc.
>
>Besides the usual issues about direct flights from multiple international
>destinations. Its much better right now - but the new airport in hyderabad
>- coming into place in March - is over 70 kilometers from the city, and
>while the airport is ready, the access road sure as hell isnt. The current
>joke is that it will take you 3 hours to fly there from Singapore, and 3:30
>hrs to drive from the airport to the city, unless you take a scheduled
>copter shuttle service someone's launching there (Deccan Aviation I think)
>
>Disclaimer - I lived over 12 years in hyderabad, but that was 6 years back,
>and my last trip to hyderabad was around 5..6 months back (I visit
>occasionally as my parents live near there)
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