[NCUC-EC] Funding a traveler from Cape Town for NCUC outreach

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

In favor
They are doing great tweeting about us btw, perhaps we could retweet?

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 7:44 PM, farzaneh badii
<farzaneh.badii at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi EC,
>
> I need a very quick response on this.
>
> Enrico Calandro from Research ICT Africa (an organizational NCUC member) is
> based in Cape Town (South Africa) and would like to attend NCUC outreach.
> Here is his profile:
> https://www.uwc.ac.za/Biography/Pages/Enrico-Calandro.aspx
> Research  ICT Africa does a lot of Internet policy related research and
> would be good to support them to become more active. Enrico was referred to
> us by Chenai Chair who makes great contributions to the Internet related
> research in Africa.
>
> At the moment local participation at the event does not look optimal. It
> would be good to support some local people. I tried to raise funds from
> other sources to support local participation but was unsuccessful. Enrico
> needs around R4,200 which is approximately 310 USD to attend the event.
>
> I was wondering if EC could approve this request. Note that we are not over
> budget. Matt is going to be a Board member and will be supported by ICANN
> (he is not a Board member yet) so we have saved money on not allocating him
> 1700 USD travel support.
>
> Thanks for considering this and please get back to me ASAP.
>
> Best
>
>
>
> Farzaneh
>
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