RE: INFODEV (was before Re: [nc-budget] DNSO costs - agenda item Wed 21 Nov)

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com>]

Vany,

Are you suggesting that infoDEV might be a source of funding for the DNSO or
a source of ideas for consensus development procedures or both?

Chuck

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales [mailto:vany@sdnp.org.pa]
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 10:12 AM
> To: NC budget
> Subject: INFODEV (was before Re: [nc-budget] DNSO costs - agenda item
> Wed 21 Nov)
> 
> 
> Hi Chuck and all:
> 
> One of the ideas that I think it was discussed in a 
> teleconference some
> months ago, was to explore different source of funding from, for
> example, grants of cooperation agencies.
> 
> As you may know, INFODEV is one of them and they have a component of
> Consensus building, please read the following:
> 
> http://www.infodev.org/projects/categori.htm
> ---------
> Categories of infoDev activities 
> 
>                        infoDev's principal vehicle for attaining its
> goals is through the support of diverse,
>                        action-oriented activities that are local,
> national, regional or global in scope. Activities,
>                        which can cover one or more countries 
> and address
> one or many sectors, usually
>                        require partnerships between governments, the
> private sector and the international
>                        development community. infoDev helps 
> create such
> Partnerships. 
> 
>                        Most infoDev activities fall under four broad
> categories: 
> 
>                             Consensus Building 
>                             Information Infrastructure Strategies 
>                             Telecommunications Reform 
>                             Demonstration Projects 
> 
>                        Consensus Building may include 
> national, regional
> or sectorial workshops focused on
>                        a wide range of topics including
> telecommunications reform, information infrastructure
>                        or information systems for education 
> and health.
> International workshops on targeted
>                        information issues like international
> telecommunications accounting rates and the
>                        protection of intellectual property rights may
> also be held. In addition, infoDev sectorial
>                        networks, in association with simular networks,
> could provide communication facilities
>                        to virtual communities and improve exchange of
> specialized information. 
> 
> -------------
> 
> I think that together with ICANN we can submit a proposal, so ICANN
> receive funding for DNSO activities with the compromise that
> whatever is obtanined from Infodev (if it is granted) be 
> exclusively for
> DNSO expenses.  As you may read for the Consensus building component,
> DNSO falls in such category of funding.
> 
> What do other thinks?
> 
> Best Regards
> Vany
> 
> 
> -- 
> Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales
> Information Technology Specialist
> Sustainable Development Networking Programme/Panama
> Tel: (507) 317-0169
> http://www.sdnp.org.pa
> e-mail:  vany@sdnp.org.pa
>