[IGFmaglist] About fund Tides

[Patrick Ryan]

Dear Robert,

Welcome to the MAG. 

If you would like, I would be happy to set up some time to talk with you about Tides.  This has been a process that was initiated 16 months ago with many different inputs.  Some of the feedback that I received during the recent MAG meetings was that we should re-package it again so that everyone understands it better.  I am working on that, together with Anriette Esterhuysen, another MAG member. 

However, the allegations that you raise about Tides as an organization (and affiliations with the US government, the attack on the reputation) are things that I have never previously heard, and thus, is not something that I had previously thought was in need of attention.  If you could please provide some specifics, I would be happy to look into that.

Thank you,

Patrick


On May 22, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Шлегель Р.А. <shlegel at duma.gov.ru> wrote:

> Honourable colleagues!
>  
> I suppose that effort to attract the fund Tides to organize financing of the IGF work is a mistaken desicion.
> The particular fund was seen repeatedly in the processes of financing organizations with doubtful reputation. Besides it, this fund, perhaps, is over affilated with the US government. 
> I suppose that the Internet governance in the whole and the IGF in particular should not depend on organization with such reputation.
> 
> Best regards,
> Robert Shlegel
> 
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