I'm with Vanda on this.

I think that the location also suits the demographic of the participants. However, with respect to opportunity, travel time and cost:

Events such as like this have to be promoted more and the remote participation options be more timely available (in spite of any perceived risk to physical attendance), especially with webcast archiving such as happens when ISOC / ISOC NY are tuned in and involved.

Due to Joly's post and magic, anyone, anywhere can be a part of the South School on Internet Governance (SSIG). Of course, the notice came the same day it started... not so hot for planning one's schedule, but hey Joly archives!

Specific to some Caribbean territories, US airports are our exchange point for reaching many Latin America destinations, and even some other Caribbean destinations. Thus US based events tend to be a lot more accessible and likely affordable.

Despite that it, would be lovely to have LAC specific locations for the meetings. Clearly as it evolved SSIG has been doing that. I think they have done a great job to build up to this their 8th event with such a strong list of topics and presenters and I'm sure that they will evolve to greater things. Maybe the important questions are:

How can I, you, we assist SSIG more?
How to bring a future SSIG to our territory?
How to bring our territory (with respect to participants) to a future SSIG?
How to we continue to let the power of the Internet end the tyranny of travel, geography in participating in SSIG?

DISCLOSURE: I'm not affiliated with SSIG but I'm running a remote hub for it from Barbados. I think it is a great event and from the time I noticed it I wanted to expand the reach of the agenda to my country folk (whoever chooses to turn up).

Regards,

Jason Hynds

On 3/29/2016 11:03 PM, Vanda Scartezini wrote:

Guess is important to understand the sponsorship came from the regional organization and the headquarter is there in DC . All other school have been in different LAC countries . Relevant is people from our region could attend the governance school which is the good result 
In time: I have no connection with the school 

Vanda Scartezini
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Sorry for typos

On 29 de mar de 2016, at 23:58, Holly Raiche <h.raiche@internode.on.net> wrote:

I have to agree with the question - the location of the money should be irrelevant.  It should be about where the need is - and where people who can’t afford the travel time and cost can learn.
On 30 Mar 2016, at 12:40 pm, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:

Am I the only one who is puzzled by the location in DC for a course targeting the LAC region?

Not really.  Twice a year I teach a day at the US Telecommunications Training Institute in DC to a bunch of low level technocrats from developing countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.  They come for a while, it's half course and half junket.  DC is where the money is.

R's,
John
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