[governance] Contact IGF Nairobi

Fri Sep 9 15:30:06 EDT 2011

If my country is listed as one not requiring a visa, does this mean I still
have to pay the US50 on arrival?

Fiji

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Kim Pham <kpham26 at ucla.edu> wrote:

> Hi Roy,
>
> What was the turnaround time on the visas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kim
>
> On 9/9/11 6:39 PM, Balleste, Roy wrote:
> >
> > Along those lines, the Kenyan embassy is the US is processing visa
> > applications online.  Some materials needed to be mailed into the
> > embassy.  I followed their instructions and the process was easy and
> > fast.  I imagine this is the same at the other worldwide locations.
> >
> >
> >
> > *Roy Balleste*
> >
> > *Law Library Director*
> >
> > *Associate Professor of Law*
> >
> > *St. Thomas University*
> >
> > *16401 NW 37th Avenue*
> >
> > *Miami Gardens, FL 33054  USA*
> >
> > *1-305-623-2341*
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:*governance at lists.cpsr.org [mailto:governance at lists.cpsr.org]
> > *On Behalf Of *Qusai Al-Shatti
> > *Sent:* Friday, September 09, 2011 1:01 PM
> > *To:* governance at lists.cpsr.org; Brice Abba
> > *Subject:* Re: [governance] Contact IGF Nairobi
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> > <mailto: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,
> >
> >
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> >     > From: nb at bollow.ch <mailto:nb at bollow.ch>
> >     > To: governance at lists.cpsr.org <mailto: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
> >     <mailto: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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