Re: [ga] ICANN Travel Budgeting

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Sotiris and all,

  Exactly!  And the fact that ICANN has sought to limit
active participation has been true sense it's conception.
As to why, I cannot really say.  But I can surmise that
broad participation in decision making is not, and has
not been wanted for reasons of credibility questioning
and accountability reasons more than anything else. 

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-----Original Message-----
>From: sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Dec 8, 2007 10:18 AM
>To: George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ga] ICANN Travel Budgeting
>
>
>George Kirikos wrote:
>
>> Why is it that no one at ICANN can provide a quote as to what Webex.com
>> or another videoconference solution that can scale to 200+ people would
>> cost?
>
>Apple's Open Source Darwin Streaming Software is free and has been used to
>stream live broadcasts to as many as 5000 participants.  The only cost is
>the bandwidth... for which I am sure ICANN can negotiate a good deal. 
>But, I really don't think the staffers at ICANN are all that interested in
>having a more inclusive approach to ICANN meetings, instead, it seems they
>are moving more towards excluding the public wherever/however they can.
>Let's face it, cost is not the issue here... In Montreal in 2003, with the
>remote assistance of Abel Wisman, I webcast (audio only) the first(?)
>public ALAC(K) meeting and the Public Question Period using my laptop with
>its built-in microphone.
>
>So, it's really not a cost issue...
>
>Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>