[governance] Geneva

[Adam Peake]

During the busiest weeks there are few cities more expensive than
Geneva. Can pick up a room in a village like Annecy, but for Geneva
itself many hundreds if $$$.  Terrible city for meetings.  Very
expensive and food as well.

Adam



On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at consensus.pro> wrote:
> There is also Lausanne - 40 minutes by train, with trains very often into
> the night and from early morning - and also much less expensive than GVA.
>
> On 9 May 2013, at 03:46, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
>
> Expensive even if you stay across the border in ferney?  Prices there seem
> to be a fraction of what they are in gva proper. And no end of hole in the
> wall auberges ..
>
> --srs (iPad)
>
> On 09-May-2013, at 6:43, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
>
> On 08/05/2013, at 9:59 PM, William Drake <william.drake at UZH.CH> wrote:
>
> In years past it was the practice before the May meetings to ask who is
> going to be in Geneva when, try to organize a caucus or CS meeting, maybe do
> a joint statement about something, and so on.  Is anything along these lines
> contemplated for this year?  We have stuff going on over a four week period:
>
>
> I'm only going to be able to make it for the first week (Geneva is so
> expensive!), but would be glad to get together with some other caucus folk
> while I'm there.  Regarding a joint statement, the Best Bits group is
> putting one together for the WTPF, and I would support the caucus issuing
> one for the IGF open consultations and MAG meeting as has already been
> discussed, focusing on the implementation of the recommendations on IGF
> improvements.
>
> *I was just looking at the documentation for the ITU's WTPF 14 to 16 May and
> note that there's only one civil society submission (from D. Brown, A.
> Doria, N. Nwakanma, M. Shears) and the ISOC submission.  Probably the caucus
> would be unable to reach consensus on something related to Draft Opinion 6:
> on supporting operationalizing the enhanced cooperation process.  But one
> would have thought that some comment on Draft Opinion 5: Supporting
> Multi-stakeholderism in Internet Governance might have been possible….
>
>
> You're aware though, I presume, that the reason why there is only one civil
> society submission is because the ITU is not receiving civil society
> submissions?  The only reason why the Brown/Doria/Nwakanma/Shears statement
> is up there is because they are members of the Informal Experts Group (IEG).
> I've written a statement for Consumers International (which is at
> http://a2knetwork.org/sites/default/files/wtpf_position_statement.pdf), but
> the ITU has refused to receive it.
>
> --
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