[IGFmaglist] CCTLDs to co-fund IGF & IGF Istanbul "must-haves"

[Janis Karklins]

Thank you, Vlada, for this news.
As number of ccTLDs are growing my hope is that the total amount also will
be growing.
ccTLD community support to IGF is essential.
Best
JK


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Vladimir Radunovic <vladar at diplomacy.edu>wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> some good news from several ccTLDs:
> "That's why at the recent NETmundial meeting in Brazil , CIRA joined a
> group
> of ccTLDs to financially support the IGF . Together, we committed a minimum
> of $100,000 per year for several years. Participating registries include
> .AU
> (Australia) , .DK (Denmark) , .CN (China) , .NL (Netherlands) , .UK (United
> Kingdom) , .BR (Brazil) and .MX (Mexico) . I expect other ccTLDs to join us
> soon."
>
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20140506_netmundial_and_the_igf_putting_your_m
> oney_where_your_mouth_is/
>
> Hopefully this initiative for a greater financial stability of the IGF will
> grow.
> With this will grow the MAG responsibility to make IGF respond to
> strengthened role, increased trust and finances.
>
> We need to make sure IGF Istanbul:
> - will clearly address burning issues that NETmundial, CSTD WG and others
> didn't resolve (incl. "respective roles and responsibilities", enhanced
> cooperation, liability of intermediaries, net neutrality, surveillance,
> cyber-conflicts etc)
> - will be able to follow the dynamics of developments even after the
> programme of Istanbul has been finalised (through ongoing public
> contributions to each session, as I suggested in one of the previous
> emails)
> - will move more towards tangible outputs - either following the ISOC
> proposal on RFC, and/or best practices, strengthened format of the output
> messages, bottom-up document proposals within IGF, or any other model
>
> Let's make sure we discuss all this also today and in Paris.
>
> Best,
>
>         Vlada
>
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