[governance] Contact IGF Nairobi

[Qusai Al-Shatti]

Dear all:
I would strongly recommend that all of our colleagues would acquire the entry visa to Kenya from Kenyan Embassies and Consulates prior to the arrival to Nairobi. I was told that all of them were  instructed to facilitate the visa process for IGF participants. 

Myself I acquired the Visa and the embassy staff were so helpful and friendly. The Visa application is only one page, they require a copy of the passport and two photos. It is two weeks to Nairobi and this is a plenty of time for a Visa.

Looking forward to see you all there,

Qusai AlShatti




On Sep 9, 2011, at 15:09, Brice Abba <briceabba at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi ALL
> Can we have some contact to call in case of problem according to the visa at the Nairobi airport.
>  Kenya has not embassy in many countries...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brice ABBA
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> > From: nb at bollow.ch
> > To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> > Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 01:53:18 +0200
> > Subject: Re: [governance] Re: IGC on Facebook?
> > 
> > David Allen <David_Allen_AB63 at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > > Happily, the Arab spring had some new tools, however flawed, that  
> > > helped put it / them over the top.
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > Obviously the Arab spring activists didn't worry much about what
> > a "social networking" / marketing company would do with their data.
> > 
> > Whether such lack of concern is justified is a different question.
> > 
> > There's a lot of scenarios where such lack of concern could turn
> > out to be very harmful. For example, I'd be very surprised if the
> > secret services of all remaining oppressive governments aren't
> > working very hard on gaining access e.g. to the internal network
> > of Facebook, and on developing strategies for exploiting whatever
> > architectural or other flaws of Facebook they may be able to discover.
> > 
> > > Equally happily, we can do better than flawed tools. And as a policy 
> > > group, re global 'Net policy, hopefully we will, by advocating / 
> > > innovating tools that are even more common - and of quality. Instead 
> > > of selling ourselves to marketeers ...
> > 
> > Strongly agreed. We may not succeed in avoiding every flaw, but
> > at least we can work towards creating communication tools etc
> > that avoid the worst flaws, and we can avoid "selling ourselves
> > to marketeers" in the sense of effectively requiring people to
> > join Facebook (or any other service with similar privacy concerns
> > and/or lock-in effects) in order to fully participate in IGC internal
> > "who meets whom when and where while in Nairobi" coordination.
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > Norbert
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