[governance] curious note on nairobi and brussels...

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Another note on the treatment of participants in Brussels: buses took us from two hotels and the convention center to the "gala dinner". On return nearly midnight the bus drivers stopped in a place near the convention center, far from the hotels... And this was it. Walk, take a taxi said the drivers.

Fine, fine hosting indeed...

--c.a.

enviado via iPhone

On 05/07/2010, at 08:24, Arzak Khan <azrak_khan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear C.A,
>  
> Like always sheer double standards.
>  
> Cheers!
>  
> Arzak 
> 
> 
> 
>   
> > From: anriette at apc.org
> > To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; ca at cafonso.ca
> > Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 12:01:16 +0200
> > Subject: Re: [governance] curious note on nairobi and brussels...
> > 
> > Dear c.a.
> > 
> > Yes.. good question. Let's hope that we don't have the same paranoia
> > emerge again when the IGF is being hosted in Kenya.
> > 
> > Anriette
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 13:22 -0300, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
> > > Dear people,
> > > 
> > > When ICANN proposed to hold their meeting in Nairobi, there came an 
> > > avalanche of reports and fears -- above all, a statement from the US 
> > > government warning all of us not to go due to serious security concerns.
> > > 
> > > The ones who went (I was there) found a wonderful people, a nice 
> > > country, we learned a lot visiting museums and other places -- above 
> > > all, we were at least as safe as in our home towns.
> > > 
> > > Now, in Brussels, one of us had its bag forcefully stolen at the central 
> > > train station. Nothing of this sort happened in Kenya. Our NCUC friend 
> > > Marcelo Fernandes Costa had about Eu5,000 in equipment and money stolen 
> > > in the capital of Europe. When he approached a policeman to report the 
> > > robbery, the Belgian shook his shoulders as if saying "nothing new...".
> > > 
> > > Why didn't the US government and other "mandarins of worldwide security" 
> > > warn us about the serious risks we run when in civilized Europe???
> > > 
> > > --c.a.
> > > ____________________________________________________________
> > > You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
> > > governance at lists.cpsr.org
> > > To be removed from the list, send any message to:
> > > governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org
> > > 
> > > For all list information and functions, see:
> > > http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance
> > > 
> > > Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
> > 
> > -- 
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > anriette esterhuysen - executive director
> > association for progressive communications
> > p o box 29755 melville - south africa 2109
> > anriette at apc.org - tel/fax + 27 11 726 1692
> > http://www.apc.org
> > 
> > APC 1990-2010 www.apc.org
> > Thank you for helping make APC what it is today!
> > ¡Gracias por hacer de APC lo que es hoy!
> > Merci d'avoir contribué à faire d'APC ce qu'elle est aujourd'hui!
> > 
> > ____________________________________________________________
> > You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
> > governance at lists.cpsr.org
> > To be removed from the list, send any message to:
> > governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org
> > 
> > For all list information and functions, see:
> > http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance
> > 
> > Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
> 
> The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Get started.
> ____________________________________________________________
> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>     governance at lists.cpsr.org
> To be removed from the list, send any message to:
>     governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org
> 
> For all list information and functions, see:
>     http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance
> 
> Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/governance/attachments/20100705/c7a0dc62/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.cpsr.org
To be removed from the list, send any message to:
     governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org

For all list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t