[governance] IGF 2020 to be held in Poland

[Mawaki Chango (via governance Mailing List)]

Good point, Abdeldjalil. Geneva, Paris, Berlin and now Poland
(Varsovie/Warsaw, I guess?) That's four.
The Schengen visa is such a hassle for so many people, and so time
consuming! I'm not even talking about getting all the paperwork in order.
One has to secure the interview appointment months and months in advance
and that alone is sometimes enough to cause failure.

And when you manage to get the visa, it only lasts the exact number of days
planned for your meeting (or whatever the purpose of the visit.) And even
if one knows there's another meeting (say, ICANN) coming up in the next few
months still in the Schengen space which one needs to attend, one has to go
through all of it again. They won't consider that even if the visa
paperwork for the next meeting is ready. Certainly not if the two
consecutive meetings are happening in two different Schengen countries,
although any Schengen country visa applies to the whole of Schengen space.
I'm not even sure they accept to issue an extended visa in the case the two
meetings were to happen in the same country three or four months apart. The
bureaucracy of sovereignty !

Okay, I guess that was my mid-week rant. Otherwise, I'm looking forward to
seeing and enjoying Berlin and hopefully Warsaw.

Mawaki

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019, 08:29 Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong <bachar at igf.td> wrote:

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> Thanks Arsene for sharing.
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> Congratulation for that innovation :knowing the date early .
> After 3 round I'm Europe we hope that after Poland will be in AFRICA .
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