[governance] Plan - B after IGF Cancelled

[Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google]

Hmmmmm .... that WOULD indeed be "interesting" as you so succinctly put it,
Olivier.


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>wrote:

> Speaking purely as an individual, I might be tempted to suggest that
> some things are destined to fail, by design.
> I'd be interested in seeing the UN budget for IGF, vs. the UN budget for
> "competing" initiatives.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Olivier (in a cynical mood)
>
> On 26/07/2013 22:48, Fouad Bajwa 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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