I've taken the liberty of including a few paragraphs from Robert's blog
below. Background on the WSIS process is here:
http://news.com.com/Should+the+United+Nations+run+the+Internet/2010-1028_3-5181327.html
-Declan
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Subject: WSIS meetings - How much it is costing Civil Society
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:35:55 -0500
From: Robert Guerra <rguerra@private>
To: declan@private
Declan:
I'd appreciate it if you could forward the following message to politech...
How expensive is it to participate @ WSIS you ask?
Well, I've just put together a few numbers and posted them to my WSIS
blog. URL is
http://www.privaterra.org/activities/wsis/blog/wsis_meetings-cs_cost.html
I look forward to comments, specifically on what the exact gains
(economic and otherwise) one we expect .
regards
Robert
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Robert Guerra <rguerra@private>
Privaterra - <http://www.privaterra.org>
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Costs of attending WSIS meetings
Last updated: Jan 28, 2005
1. Cost per Person
Flight
1. Since people come to attend the meetings from all over the
world one can either break down the costs by region or use an best guess
average value.
2. To make things easy, let's assume an average flight
cost/person of 1000 USD .
Accommodation
1. There are many options.
2. To make things easy, let's assume that the participant in
question stays at a hotel in Geneva that has an NGO price. The Hotel Mon
Repos is used by many, so let's use their UN rate of 150 CHF / night for
our calculations.
3. # days at event. the prepcom is 2 weeks, let's assume the
person stays 15 days
thus the accommodation cost is 150 CHF x 15 = 2250 CHF
(Using the currency converter at www.xe.com that # in swiss francs comes
to 1905 USD)
Per Diem
1. These are costs related to expenses, incidentals and meals (see
below for more details)
2. Geneva is an expensive city.
3. Where can we find an approx #, well several of the development
agencies publish per diem rates. Let's use the ones published by the US
State department as it's a source many people use and are familiar with.
4. Let's assume one will be frugal and estimate 40% of the # quoted
for geneva (169 USD) = 84 /day
5. (and yes, normal meals can cost you 30-40 dollars!)
Thus, the per diem cost is 15 x (169/2) = 1267.5 USD
Adding the numbers
1000 (flight) + 1905 (accommodation) + 1267 (per diem) = 4172 USD per
person for a 2 week stay
An important # is the average per day cost. let's divide 4172 (total
cost) by 15 (# of days) . this works out to 278 $/day (we'll use this #
later)
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