[Chapter-delegates] ISOC's access to Administration & lobbyists creates opportunity to ask questions

[Christian de Larrinaga]

On 21/07/2020 22:54, Dave Burstein via Chapter-delegates wrote:
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> The IGF planners in DC have chosen far two many government 
> spokesmen and lobbyists. This makes it hard to persuade people we are 
> truly independent.
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> If we want to have another IGF USA, we need to move it out of DC or 
> make it very clear it's not our role to feature lobbyists or the US Gov
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UK Chapter has made similar observations for a few years and some other 
participants we've brought onto the UK IGF committee have also made a 
very similar point in regards the UK IGF.

IGF should be a discussion not a platform.


C

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