[governance] WSIS Forum 2011

[Jacqueline Morris]

A Canadian visa is more expensive and harder to get for me in Trinidad and
Tobago than a US visa.
Jacqueline

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Vancouver... (we have a lot of spare post-Olympics hotel capacity at the
> moment ;-)
>
> M
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Jacqueline Morris [mailto:jam at jacquelinemorris.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, September 06, 2010 9:20 AM
> *To:* governance at lists.cpsr.org; Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google
> *Subject:* Re: [governance] WSIS Forum 2011
>
> Don't they usually hold these events in UN cities? That means Geneva,
> Nairobi,  New York, Vienna, Bangkok, Santiago, Addis Ababa and Beirut. Is
> there  another one in a visa free country that is easy to get to?
> Jacqueline
>
> 2010/9/6 Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google <tracyhackshaw at gmail.com>
>
>> Unfortunately, these Visa challenges extend to the Schengen area for
>> developing countries as well. Switzerland joined the Schengen
>> Agreement in 2008.
>>
>> Costs of travel from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe remain
>> prohibitive and the cheapest routes are generally through the US
>> anyway.
>>
>> It might also be just a good time as any to advocate for a move of
>> WSIS to a relatively Visa free area or country.
>>
>> Panama, therefore, sounds pretty good as a Venue if these things are
>> even still being considered.
>>
>> On 9/6/10, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>> > Adding to Wolf's quite relevant worries, let us recall as well that
>> > getting a visa to the USA continues to be a challenge for citizens in
>> > all developing countries.
>> >
>> > frt rgds
>> >
>> > --c.a.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 09/06/2010 12:33 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
>> >> Dear friends
>> >>
>> >> I disagree with the argument that a move from Geneva to to New York of
>> the
>> >> WSIS Forum 2011 would improve outreach and bring WSIS implementation
>> >> forward. In contrary I am afraid that a move to NewYork will weaken in
>> >> particular the involvement of civil society and the academic community
>> as
>> >> important stakeholders in the WSIS process. A large number of civil
>> >> society organisations, including represenations of organisations from
>> >> developing countries, are based in Geneva or not far from Geneva.
>> Moving
>> >> the event to New York would create additional costs and logistic
>> problems
>> >> for them which would result in lower participation of civil society
>> >> organisations. This would certainly undermine the multistakeholder
>> nature
>> >> of the WSIS implementaiton process.
>> >>
>> >> Another risk moving the WSIS Forum 2011 to New York would be that the
>> >> important WSIS issues would be discussed in the shadow of more
>> important
>> >> political and security issues which dominate the day to day UN
>> acitvities
>> >> in New York. The WSIS Forum would be just "another conference" and
>> would
>> >> have difficulties to get the needed public attention.
>> >>
>> >> Finally I want to flag that in same week the European Union has its
>> annual
>> >> Future of the Internet Week meetings under the Hungarian Presidency in
>> >> Budapest.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >>
>> >> Wolfgang Kleinwächter
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