[governance] IGF 2020 to be held in Poland

Wed Jun 5 05:34:42 EDT 2019

Hi Mawaki, all:

No need to apologise or call it a rant. It's a very fair point, and I
appreciate your articulation. As someone who lives in Europe and
undoubtedly benefits from having the IGF hosted on the continent, I am also
frustrated that – assuming it's already been decided – the IGF would be
held yet again in Europe.

I know that the country where it's held mainly rests on which government is
willing to host it, so I do understand if the options are limited.

What are the solutions to this?

Best,
-Michael

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 11:26 AM Mawaki Chango <governance at lists.riseup.net>
wrote:

> 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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