[governance] Breakdown of IGF 2009 participants by region and

Sat Apr 17 13:29:35 EDT 2010

Vanda,

I am often puzzled by the need of geographics in the Internet. I have always like the term "where East meets North". (do not dwell too long it is a mindbender)
If we keep using the anthropologic notions or territorialism and nationalism when addressing Internet Issues are we not chaining ourselves to boundaries that are more akin to myth and conquerors than International Freedom of Communication.
By geopolitical breakdowns of participation we are allowing the status quoians to define the issues. I dare say that my values and issues are more in line with farmers in Sudan and shopkeepers in Asia than an American lawyer sum President from Chicago.  MLK said that one day we shall judge not by the color of skin or race oR creed but by the character of a man.  Why should we come so far and then regress and begin to judge a man by the accident of geography of birth?

--- On Thu, 4/15/10, vanda <vanda at uol.com.br> wrote:

From: vanda <vanda at uol.com.br>
Subject: Re: [governance] Breakdown of IGF 2009 participants by region and
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Adam Peake" <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 6:54 PM

Both are right Adam & Carlos . LA&C area are not too poor to get the attention of the world. We really need to have more information as well as have a clear position about IGF related to ICANN - 
there is or not sponsorship from ICANN for some members?, then who? why? when make suggestions? who will analyze the suggestions and define who will be there.
we are member of one community, we need to go to IGF is some way representing this community. 
or work to find another sponsorship for our group, independent of ICANN.
kisses
vanda  

Em 15/04/2010 14:41, Adam Peake < ajp at glocom.ac.jp > escreveu:
>Yes, unfortunately, LAC continues to be the most under-represented 
>region. Since our problems are not perceived as being as "critical" 
>as Africa, we tend to be under-funded from outside sources, while 
>our governments do not/cannot give it the priority we would like to 
>see. It is a dilemma that should be addressed specifically.

What might be helpful is more detailed information, a way to get that 
would be to redesign the registration form so the information can be 
sorted as Carlos, Deirdre suggest. A lot of information collected but 
not in a way that is as useful as it might be. Would some of our MAG 
members be willing to take this on.

I doubt we'd ever get good information about who was/wasn't funded to 
attend. Canada has give quite large amount (for I think all IGFs to 
date, and with not a lot of public acknowledgement -- IGC might make 
a comment about that sometime) that's been administered by the ITU, 
but there's not been a breakdown of who (stakeholder/region) received 
it. My guess is there must have been more funding, but likely in 
smaller parcels so even more difficult to understand.

Adam

>Now THIS is a topic for an IGF workshop. Any takers?
>
>Carlos Afonso: my information is that stakeholder groups are 
>self-defined as taken from the registration forms.
>
>Best,
>Ginger
>
>Adam Peake wrote:
>
>>Again, participants from Latin America and the Caribbean is low. 
>>Has been for all IGFs (expect Rio... when LAC participants 
>>represented 35% of the total, but of those 29% were from Brazil.)
> >
>>Adam
>>
>>>Interesting indeed, Ginger. I assume the classification is on the basis
>>>of self-defined categories as written in the registration forms. I am
>>>particularly curious about the relatively large participation of the
>>>"technical and academic" community.
>>>
>>>[]s fraternos
>>>
>>>--c.a.
>>>
>>>Ginger Paque wrote:
>>>
>>>> FYI:
>>>>
>>>> Breakdown of IGF participants:
>>>>
>>> > 
>>>http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/content/article/87-programme/484-igf-sharm-el-sheikh-attendance-statistics
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>
>>>Carlos A. Afonso
>>>CGI.br (www.cgi.br)
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