Re: [Tccc] Cost of attendance from developing countries / in general

I totally agree that there are "underprivileged authors" in every country.
However, the proportion is not geographically equal.

I think it could be difficult to get accurate statistics regarding the
reason(s) of the no-show/non-author issue. I hope we could find any.

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> obazan@ee.ryerson.ca wrote:
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>> Most people with limited/no funds used to pay the registration fees with
>> no real intention to attend the conferences. Unfortunately, they had no
>> choice. With the new no-show policy, some started to tweak it by
>> presentations by non-authors. If non-authors presentations are no longer
>> allowed, researchers from developing countries may be forced to publish
>> in
>> regional conferences.
>
> It might be useful if we had some statistics on whether the non-author
> issue is at all related to the "underprivileged author" issue. If anyone
> on the list has this information, please let me know. I'll contact some
> conference chairs directly as well.
>
> FWIW, I'd like to suggest that term - underprivileged author - than the
> term used to date. We cannot assume what resources a person has simply
> due to their country of residence. We certainly need to accommodate
> underprivileged authors *from any country*.
>
> Joe
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