[governance] WSIS Forum 2011
Carlos A. Afonso
ca at cafonso.ca
Mon Sep 6 12:44:53 EDT 2010
For Canadians like you and me, quite easy, Michael -- but Canadian visa
restrictions for non-Canadians from developing countries are also quite
hard...
However, Vancouver is sensational! :)
--c.a.
On 09/06/2010 01:27 PM, Michael Gurstein 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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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