[governance] IGF Remote Hub Creation Process for remote

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Marilia and all,

  Hubs, whether a bottoms up proposal or not, has little to do with
the huge and expanding problem of IDtheft due to poor security
for such hubs being provided for remote participants to be reasonably
assured that they will not be victimized by the many miscreants that
frequently use such temporary remote participant endeavors for various
forms of inappropriate or illegal and personal damaging intrusion
activity.

  Whomever is going to provide such Hubs for such a remote
participation,
should be required to take already known steps to ensure that the
available
security and privacy protection is implemented, or do not offer the
temporary
service at all as to do so would be irresponsible, and may in some
jurisdictions,
be illegal at worst, are entirely improper and inconsiderate at best.

  As for the financial hard times we all are currently suffering under,
due
to a very great extent the global financial cirsis, and such as to
related to
remote participation for IGF, perhaps whomever is the appropriate
person could contact the IMF in the IGC's behalf for a loan to be able
to be used for providing funding for such efforts now, and longer term?

  Does anyone know what exactly the curent financial status of the IGC
is at present?  Is that information in very general numbers posted
anywhere?  What are the current sources of funding for the IGC?

Marilia Maciel wrote:

> Dear Jeffrey and all,
>
> I can see several reasons for you (and us all who are concerned) to
> get involved in this matter. First of all, the hubs are a bottom up
> proposal, that genuinely comes from civil society. Any action that
> helps to improve it and move it forward helps the empowerment of civil
> society as a whole and to move us towards a more balanced IG debate.
>
> Secondly, the hubs aim to include people that would otherwise be
> excluded from the IGF Hyderabad debate: people that are not able to
> cover travel expenses, academic communities, individuals, etc. The
> idea is that these hubs go even further, and serve as a starting point
> to a (necessary) discussion of the IGF debates from a local
> perspective.
>
> Thirdly, I believe that a project with this scope and that has been
> proposed by civil society should not be ignored by the community on
> this list and "conveniently" be left to the sole responsibility of the
> Secretariat. Each of us should be interested to improve this project
> not only as possible future users of remote channels of participation,
> but also as a concerned and united community that helps one another
> initiatives.
>
> Your concern about privacy is legitimate and it would be very valuable
> to count on your support and expertise to suggest improvements. Btw,
> anyone interested on the project can join a discussion list
> in http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/rpg_hyd_intgovforum.org
>
> Best regards
>
> Marília Maciel
>
> Civil Society- Remote Participation Working Group
>
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