[governance] NetMundial funding - information requested

[Baudouin Schombe]

The mail from travel-ICANN-constituency says 'ICANN is supporting your
travel' and not that 'NetMundial is supporting your travel'...


exactly Parminder, but contact with sponsors is managed by NetMundial
Secretariat. I could be wrong.


2014-04-05 12:38 GMT+02:00 parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>:

>
> On Saturday 05 April 2014 03:57 PM, Baudouin Schombe wrote:
>
>  Hello Parminder,
>
>  the process was as follows:
>
>  1.Registration online NetMundial; in the online form, it was asked,
> among other things if candidate needed a partial or total load;
> 1.2 Once registration is approved,  secretrariat of NetMundial has
> notified  candidates.;
> 3.Secretariat has NetMundial then sent a link to the visa application;
> 4.It is at this stage that the secretariat requires the booking of  hotel
> by applicant and receives information about support for the stay in Sao
> Paolo during the summit.
> 4. it is also at this stage that the secretariat sent a form for
> resrevation flight. It is also at this time that the travel ICANN
> constituency contacted the candidate.
>
>
> Thanks Baudouin, This is the set of information available at the
> participant end, which I already know, and also the person who originally
> sought the information. We would like to get some information at the other
> end, not know to us, which is contained in my questions.
>
>
>
>  So, the whole process of funding support is coordinated and managed by
> NetMundial secretariat.
>
>
> The mail from travel-ICANN-constituency says 'ICANN is supporting your
> travel' and not that 'NetMundial is supporting your travel'...
>
> parminder
>
>
>
> 2014-04-05 11:38 GMT+02:00 parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>:
>
>>  Someone who is not in these civil society circles, and who had sought
>> funding support on registering for NetMundial, asked me information about
>> how funding support works. Since I am not able to help that person with
>> this information, may I request those involved with the meeting to provide
>> it. Please note that this is urgent. (The concerned person has received an
>> email from ICANN informing him that ICANN would support her/his travel for
>> the meeting.)
>>
>> It will be useful to know full details about how the funding process
>> worked. Was there a pool of donations? Who picked up the participants who
>> were offered funding? What kind of criteria was used? Why individual
>> funders are approaching participants with funding support, and why a
>> centralised approach from the meeting organisers was not made/ considered?
>> Whether there are other funders too making such a direct approach? Who are
>> the funders and what amounts have been committed?
>>
>> If say an Internet company was to approach a civil society participant
>> declaring that it will fund her/ his travel, it could create a potential
>> problem because many civil society groups have limitations on what kind of
>> funding for travel etc they can accept from private companies, especially
>> those who work in their own activity area , and under what conditions.
>>
>> I request early information on the above since the person who has asked
>> for this information and her/his organisation needs to make an early
>> decision about accepting the funding, given the short period to the meeting.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> parminder
>>
>> PS: It is not a personal gripe because two persons from IT for Change
>> have been offered support in a similar way and we have accepted it.
>>
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