Luca Martinelli, 05/10/2015 00:22:
Moving from James' idea of a three-years rotation between regions, and taking into account Katie's idea, we may define three rotating areas:
- First year: Europe + Middle East + North Africa
- Second year: Americas + Oceania
- Third year: rest of Asia + Sub-Saharan Africa
I'd rather group regions by the likelihood that people in those regions come together and cooperate on an event (once their region is chosen): it's no use selecting a region if 5 "big" competing bids then emerge for it.
Europe should definitely be (at least) in Council of Europe terms. Americas have Iberocoop + all the spanish-speaking USA people and might indeed be considered as a whole.
As for Africa, I'd really like to see a map of the continent where distance is measured by flight cost... we might discover that the centre of Subsaharian Africa is Dubai, Paris or Frankfurt. My search results were poor: * https://whoee.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/fun-with-maps/ * http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2006/01/map_of_europe_i.html
As for the rest of the world, no idea...
Nemo