[governance] [bestbits] Call for making the IGF permanent

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Sep 03 06:25, Suresh Ramasubramanian (suresh at hserus.net) wrote:

> Any organization with permanent UN funding will doubtless have the
> usual strings attached is her point I think. I seriously doubt it
> would be easy to score a permanent grant of UN money with the
> potential for a future IGF to be held in, say, Taipei.

That is probably true, but a longer mandate (even if not "permanent"),
say 10 years, and at least one decided well in advance rather than at
the last minute as usual would also make it easier for other potential
donors (notably some governments) to fund IGF.

That said, I don't see any chance whatsoever for permanent
IGF mandate after the current one expires, even 10 years
extension is very unlikely. Most likely it'll be another 5 years
and even that decided only in December 2015 or something like that.

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen

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