[governance] Rough costs to participate at upcoming WCIT 12

[Deirdre Williams]

Is this the same in Internet Governance? See Fouad Parminder thread

> 27,000 USD is quite a sum.

Chicken feed to a billionaire.
Deirdre

On 8 March 2012 10:50, Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org> wrote:

> Lee,
>
> I agree that it would be good to have CS at least try to get on a national
> delegation. However, the challenge is not only convincing the relevant
> ministry to add a CS member, but also finding ways to find the funding.
>
> How much funding would be required. Well, let me try to make a best guess
> ....
>
> Let me make the following assumptions:
>
> - Economy Flight from North America to Dubai
> - 15 days accommodation (1 arrival day + 14 day conference)
> - Expenses (per diem, etc)
> - Use the US State Department  Per diem rates for accommodation & per diem
> <
> http://aoprals.state.gov/web920/per_diem_action.asp?MenuHide=1&CountryCode=1172
> >
>
> Costs:
> - Flight: Approx 1,300 USD (Using average from expedia.com)
> - Accommodation: 360 (Max accommodation rate) x 15 = 5,400
> - Per Diem: 143 (Max rate) x 15 = 2145
>
> Total: 1300+5400+2145 = 8845 . For the sake of rounding, let's call it an
> even 9,000 USD.
>
> Though this  # likely underestimates the cost as other items such as
> Taxi's and phone costs aren't included
>
> What that means is that  for CS to be added to a national level delegation
> we need convince one's national level delegation or another donor to make
> 9,000 USD PER CS delegate for just the WCIT meeting in Dec. There are
> several preparatory meetings taking place ahead of the Dubai meeting. Thus
> we'd need to be there as well. Say there are 2 WCIT prep meetings - well,
> that increases the CS required budget from 9K to 27,000 USD!
>
> 27,000 USD is quite a sum.  The larger question is strategic value -
> should we focus our time, energy and limited financial resources to fund CS
> participation at WCIT or instead convince national level delegations to
> enhance CS participation more broadly by supporting the CS IGF trust fund ?
> That's something no doubt worth discussing on here...
>
>
> regards
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
>  --
> R. Guerra
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>
>
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