[governance] Breakdown of IGF 2009 participants by region and

[SAMUELS,Carlton A]

FWIW, Caribbean governments have designated CARICOM, the regional political grouping as watch for IGF issues and they attract the funding to attend meetings.  CARICOM has sporadically sought to solicit opinions from regional interests on said issues in preparation for participating in the IGF; I have been asked, for one.

Remote participation facilities certainly provides some access but f2f attendance at IGF by civil society actors and groupings would require alternate funding sources so if members believe this is a worthwhile endeavour, then there is merit for special consideration.

Carlton Samuels

From: Ginger Paque [mailto:gpaque at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [governance] Breakdown of IGF 2009 participants by region and

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.

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

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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



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