[lac-discuss-en] Proposed Text for LACRALO stement re: Proposed Framework for ICANN's FY10 Operating Plan and Budget

[Carlton Samuels]

Dear Colleagues:
I am on record for supporting the EURALO statement so this statement has my
support with a slight change.

I would suggest that the 2nd to final paragraph of the statement recognize
that changing meeting venues across the world gives ICANN a really good
opportunity to interact with local constituencies on a regular basis. I
submit this is a worthwhile political objective and needs to be more
providently exploited by the At-Large.

To compare, the annual meeting of the World Bank and IMF is usually held in
the spring in Washington DC. I quite forgot how it could be until I ran into
it last weekend. This meeting is attended by Ministers of Finance with
leading national technocrats of all member governments and their retinue.
Prices for hotel rooms and rental cars spike so your finances do take a hit.


In any event, quite apart from the significant economic gains to the DC
community, it reinforced the merits of ICANN's approach.

Carlton Samuels

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh
<admin at ttcsweb.org>wrote:

> Here's the proposed text I will send later this evening as a official
> statement from LACRALO. I know that there was support to endorse EURALO's
> statement, but I've added additional statements re:travel support that I
> think needs to be said. So comments on the below statement are welcome.
>
> Dev Anand Teelucksingh
> Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society, LACRALO Secretariat
>
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>
> Dear Sir
>
> On behalf of the LACRALO, I wish to submit the following comments on the
> "Proposed Framework for ICANN's FY10 Operating Plan and Budget".
>
> The Latin American and Caribbean Regional At-Large Organisation endorses
> the text of the EURALO's statement on the Operational Plan and Budget as
> posted at http://forum.icann.org/lists/op-budget-fy2010/msg00006.html.
>
> ICANN needs to fund travel support for all constituencies (ALAC, At-Large,
> GNSO, SSAC, etc.) to participate at their meetings and should not increase
> travel support for a constituency at the expense of another.
>
> ICANN should identify potential cost savings by doing a cost breakdown for
> each meeting venue, where the costs (airline costs, accommodations,
> per-diem, etc) of having the constituencies from each region present at such
> a meeting identified and compared with other meeting venues.
>
> A possible outcome of such an excercise would be identifying meeting venues
> which could be used by ICANN on a regular basis.
>
>
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