[NCUC-EC] Travel Support Istanbul IGF

[William Drake]

Hi

You may recall that I submitted a budget proposal for IGF travel support and that our two workshop proposals were approved by the IGF MAG. 

http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2014/index.php/proposal/view_public/153

http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2014/index.php/proposal/view_public/185

So NCUC is supposed to get two travel slots for these.  Separately, Rafik submitted one for NCSG, which was also approved,

http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2014/index.php/proposal/view_public/114

That’s 3 travel slots, one each NCSG/NCUC/NPOC.  The NCSG would be Rafik, the NCUC would be me, and I don’t know who NPOC would want to send to speak about this topic.  

So we have two travel slots to fill.  

I have for the past two months been bugging staff trying to figure out how this will be handled and by whom, as I really need to get my travel sorted due to other back to back meetings just before and after IGF.  After having gone through five different correspondents I have at last found my way to the right person (as you might guess, they don’t have a standard division of labor on this), and she’s asking who the other NCUC travelers will be.

I would argue that if she wants it, one of those slots should go to Stefi, as she worked with me on submitting the proposal for 185 and will be the Remote Moderator and Rapporteur (brief report to the IGF afterwards, otherwise NCUC can’t submit a proposal the following year).  

For the other slot, I would have made the same argument for Lea Kaspar, who submitted and will be the Remote Moderator and Rapporteur for 153.  However, I checked with Lea, and she doesn’t need the support, her employer will send her to Istanbul anyway.  So that means we have one slot to allocate to someone who’s doing or will be doing work for NCUC.

Oh, I should add, staff added a new condition to our budget approval: 

"Pending acceptance by the IGF MAG of this program 7 support for 2 NCUC travelers is  allocated. Travelers must agree to produce a trip report on what the support made  possible 7 i.e., other work, mtgs. Travelers will be expected to give some support time to  ICANN while at the IGF meeting (e.g., booth attendance, etc.,). ICANN staff is not  available to support session development, preparation or other support.”

As I did the work of assembling the workshops, I think it’s reasonable that the two covered travelers also conspire on drafting said trip report to ICANN.

Ok, so…suggestions?

Bill

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William J. Drake
International Fellow & Lecturer
  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
  University of Zurich, Switzerland
Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, 
  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
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