AW: [governance] Civil Society outnumbered

[Roland Perry]

Chaitanya Dhareshwar <chaitanyabd at gmail.com> writes
>
>>    government - 429

>  And how many of the "Government" registrants are local contractors
>  working for the organisers. I recall one IGF where many of the hotel
>  staff at the venue were issued with badges, for example, so they
>  could circulate freely.

>Surely they wouldn't count them towards the attendees list?

I'm pretty sure they have in the past. And on another occasion there 
were if I recall correctly quite a few local people with only a passing 
interest in IG encouraged to attend. (They probably gained from the 
experience, but it's not a good way to construct a benchmark of 
organisational success).

The figures I would rely upon the most (given that it's a global 
gathering) are those which exclude all host-country registrants.

That might be unfair if one day the IGF is hosted in (for want of a 
better description) a G8 country, but it's a risk we have to take.
-- 
Roland Perry

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