DIDP Request #12: Revenues
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) sought information from ICANN on their revenue streams by sending them a second request under their Documentary Information Disclosure Policy. This request and their response have been described in this blog post.
CIS Request
22 July 2015
To:
Mr. Cherine Chalaby, Chair, Finance Committee of the Board
Mr. Xavier Calvez, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Samiran Gupta, ICANN India
All other members of Staff involved in accounting and financial tasks
Sub: Raw data with respect to granular income/revenue statements of ICANN from 1999-2011
We would like to thank ICAN for their prompt response to our earlier requests. We appreciate that the granular Revenue Details for FY14 have been posted online.[1] We also appreciate that a similar document has been posted for FY13.[2]
And we hope that one for FY12 would be posted soon, as noted by you in your Response to our Request No. 20141222-1.[3]
As also noted by you in the same request, similar reports cannot be prepared for FY99 to FY11 since “[i]t would be extremely time consuming and overly burdensome to cull through the raw data in order to compile the reports for the prior years”.[4]
Additionally, it was also mentioned that the “relevant information is available in other public available documents”.[5]
Hence, we would like to request for the raw data for years FY99 to FY11, for our research on accountability and transparency mechanisms in Internet governance, specifically of ICANN. Additionally, we would also like to request for the links to such public documents where the information is available.
We look forward to the receipt of this information within the stipulated period of 30 days. Please feel free to contact us in the event of any doubts regarding our queries.
Thank you very much.
Warm regards,
Aditya Garg,
I Year, National Law University, Delhi
For Centre for Internet & Society
W: http://cis-india.org
ICANN Response
ICANN referred to our earlier DIDP request (see here) where we had sought for a detailed report of their granular income and revenue statements from 1999-2014. They refused to disclose the data on grounds that it would be ‘time consuming’ and ‘overly burdensome’, which is a ground for refusal as per their exceptions to disclosure.
Our request may be found here, and their response is linked to here.
[1]. See FY14 Revenue Detail By Source, https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/fy2014-revenue-source-01may15-en.pdf.
[2]. See FY13 Revenue Detail By Source, https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/fy2013-revenue-source-01may15-en.pdf
[3]. See Response to Documentary Information Disclosure Policy Request No. 20141222-1, https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/cis-response-21jan15-en.pdf.
[4]. Id
[5]. See Response to Documentary Information Disclosure Policy Request No. 20141222-1, https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/cis-response-21jan15-en.pdf.
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