[governance] Plan - B after IGF Cancelled

[michael gurstein]

I guess I'm missing something.  

 

The Internet currently represents what, a $ trillion, $ 2 trillion ???
revenues not to speak of its role in creating a framework for total global
logistics, e-commerce, telecommunications, . surveillance,.in the global
economy now and infinitely more in the future and the "Internet community"
can't put together what is in fact a rounding error in that (the cost of a
good blow-out bash in any of the major companies living off that economy)
for the primary (?), only (?), multi-stakeholder forum dealing in a broader
way with "Internet Governance" issues. 

 

Perhaps we should be discussing what this says about "Internet Governance"
and the role and significance of the IGF in that constellation rather than
figuring out how to pass the begging bowl around more efficiently.

 

M

 

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Subject: Re: [governance] Plan - B after IGF Cancelled

 

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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