Vittorio Bertola wrote:
Elisabeth Porteneuve ha scritto:
Do you know if ICANN or ALAC keep statistics on funding travels, including number of ALAC participants per meeting. How many ALAC were in Paris, and how many with travel/accomodation support (and the same in former places)? In fact, it's never been possible to get public information on travel funding by ICANN to any kind of ICANN-funded attendees. It is true that ICANN makes the information difficult to attain -- indeed, any request for details on how much money is allocated to At-Large generally results in evasion and obfuscation. However, it should not be difficult for ALAC itself (and/or ALAC support staff) to provide a "roll call" of who attended, from the registration information. This is helpful, not only for funding reasons, but also to help At-Large be aware of who exactly is representing their interests at each meeting.
(It is also interesting to match the list of registrations against meeting attendance...) There should be no reason to hide the basic attendance information. Indeed, info on those who pre-registered is already online (http://par.icann.org/attendees/). For costs, I would personally prefer aggregate amounts -- "ALAC sent the following people and it cost a total of $Y in travel expense". For much the same reason that ICANN does not break out staff salaries from its public budgets, I do not think it is helpful for the to world have access to dissect which individuals' flights cost the most. - Evan