Proposal #59: Same AIM.
I propose that from 2010 the AIM is hosted always in the same country. It should be a major European airport-hub and tickets-costs should be shared among NAs/Participants.
Rationale
Having AIMs being hosted every year in one continent is quite fun... We get to travel every year to a different country, and usually take some time to travel around the area. Fun - but not worth it.
Keeping in mind that an AIM (including tickets) probably cost to the Organisation and its volunteers more than half a million Euros (yes.), think about it:Changing AIM hosting country makes the staff change every year. With that, it’s impossible to have relevant quality increase at the AIMs themselves.A lot of time of the planning of AIM is spent in actually giving information (“what do you need”, “is this fine?”, “not sure we can make it”). If this part was taken care of by itself, we could actually focus on improving the content.People say we change where AIM is hosted to “give a change to develop every NA”. This is a joke. With the money we save by having AIM at the same place, we could host at least 10 additional chapter workshops every year. No development project costs half-a-million.
So, I suggest CISV hires one full-time employee to work to organise the conference with a team of volunteers. This could be either in Frankfurt, Paris, or wherever is cheapest to fly to. We would host it every year in the same site, what probably can make things more adequate and cheap.
Maybe not at many people will go (since many are more attracted to the scenario than to the work), but well - it could be good.
Respectfully submitted, Marcos (BRA)
{ Background: Annual International Meetings take place every August following a rotation scheme: Every other year the conventions takes place in Europe, in between the location switches between Asia and the Americas. In the next years the AIM will be hosted in Guatemala 2009, Germany 2010, Indonesia 2011 and probably France 2011 }
