[governance] Plan - B after IGF Cancelled

[Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google]

Developing countries, especially Small Islands, encounter significant
challenges and expenses to obtain the Schengen Visa (now required for
Switzerland) with no guarantee of success.

As a "visa neutral" venue, Geneva made a lot of sense for these types of
gatherings in pre-Schengen times.

Unfortunately, this advantage has been lost.

 On Jul 26, 2013 5:10 PM, "Fouad Bajwa" <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe it's time to revive Geneva to play host once again after WSIS2003,
> after all it was the birthplace of the Global Dialogue on Internet Policy,
> WGIG and plays host to MAG Meets so why not a plan B for the UN to save its
> own reputation...?
>
> Best Regards
> Fouad Bajwa
>
> Sent from my mobile device
>
> On Jul 27, 2013, at 1:54 AM, "Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google" <
> tracyhackshaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +1 (many times)
> On Jul 26, 2013 4:48 PM, "Fouad Bajwa" <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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