[governance] Re: [IRPCoalition] IGF - and the corporatisation scandal

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Before jumping to that conclusion, is there any indication that this cash 
for slots idea was an initiative endorsed and operated by the MAG or the 
secretariat, rather than by an uninformed local team?

--srs (htc one x)



On 28 July 2013 5:20:01 PM parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 27 July 2013 03:33 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> > On 27/07/2013, at 3:42 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net 
> <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
> >
> >> Following up on the current IGF cancellation imbroglio, I happened to 
> see what is called as the 'fund raising proposal' 
> <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BylRrf_lFlA9OXhieGt5WUJsMkU/edit> of the 
> managing committee of Bali IGF..... Sorry to say, but it is a pure scandal....
> >
> > This is hopefully just naivety on the part of the local organisers, who 
> didn't appreciate the difference between the IGF and any other Internet 
> conference.
>
> Well, may be.... although we tend to be selective about whom are we ready 
> to easily forgive and for what... But in any case, what about the IGF 
> secretariat and the MAG. Can they also be considered naive and / or 
> innocent.  They obviously knew of this document. BTW, the document says 
> that it is trying a new multistakeholder model for holding the IGFs.. Does 
> it not then constitute an express blessing by the IGF secretariat and the 
> MAG to such a 'new model'.
>
>
> IGFs are held under the UN flag and the IGF space is subject to UN 
> conference rules and immunities..... Would many things in the document not 
> fundamentally be violative of some of these norms and rules.... In other 
> circumstances, this would have immediately led to an inquiry and questions 
> being raised officially about how did the IGF secretarit and the MAG allow 
> such a thing.... But we are not in normal circumstances, this is the times 
> of a strong ascendency of neo-liberal ideology..... And those who need to 
> have triggered the outrage, the civil society, seem to be happy to quietly 
> condone it as well.
>
> And what about the 1 million dollar that has been raised, I would think, on 
> the basis this document. Is the IGF now bound by the promises made under 
> the sponsorship deals.... And if these deals are not valid, because we 
> would not want to deliver on the promises, can we still consider to have 
> that 1 million dollar for holding the IGF?
>
>
> parminder
>
>
>
> > They can be forgiven for this because indeed until now there has been 
> precious little difference between the IGF and any other Internet 
> conference.  That this could have happened is more of an indictment of the 
> state of the IGF than of the Indonesian team.
> >
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