[governance] Plan - B after IGF Cancelled

[Fouad Bajwa]

The possibility of IGF being cancelled in Bali this year may leave this important and open Internet policy dialogue space in a challenge. This also raises an important question about the efficient financial and budgetary management of such events. When the UN expense to place personnel ands equipment is a significant portion of the budget that is shifted on to the host country then it becomes prudent to revisit the financing mechanisms of the IGF and IGF Secretariat. This reminds me of Parminder's and others' past suggestions on how to create new UN funding support mechanisms for the IGF as the UN does for it's other organizations and how to improve funds and donations collection while putting in place transparent and accountable financial mechanisms for this unique ecosystem.

So the question is that how do stakeholders prevent such future crashes, second, what is plan B and third, why hasn't a sustainability mechanism evolved even six years after the IGF was started?

Concerned 

Fouad Bajwa
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