[governance] plane ticket hardships resulting from potential IGF date change (was: February 19-20...)

[Adam Peake]

On Jan 30, 2014, at 11:05 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:

> William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> There is a discussion in the MAG
>> about the scheduling of the IGF meeting, and the possible
>> consequences for the IGF in terms of attendance, political support,
>> costs to participants, the planning process, etc. of it being
>> unilaterally changed to mid-August.  If anyone is interested, the
>> discussion is on the open MAG list,
>> http://mail.intgovforum.org/pipermail/igfmaglist_intgovforum.org/
> 
> One aspect that apparently hasn't been brought up in that discussion is
> that some folks who have tight budgets will have booked airtickets soon
> after the Jan 10 UN press release that mentioned “the next meeting
> of the Internet Governance Forum, which will be held in Istanbul,
> Turkey, from 2 to 5 September.”
> http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2014/pi2078.doc.htm
> 
> The reason for booking as early as possible after city and dates have
> been announced with apparent definitiveness is of course that this
> avoids the risk of rising ticket prices closer to the event.
> 


I doubt anyone would buy a fixed ticket 9 months in advance.  Not after last year.  Not before the organization of the meeting's even started.  Can we talk about real issues.

Adam




> Maybe one of the civil society MAG members could ask the host country
> whether if indeed the dates are moved for the reason that that allows
> them to save a little money, would they in that case be willing to
> reimburse those who because of that will have plane tickets that they
> will have no use for.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
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