<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The history of tech at IGFs is in my experience a pretty unhappy one. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As long as the IGF has little funding to stage its meetings things like this will always be difficult. Unfortunately.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Nov 2015, at 00:51, Stephanie Perrin <<a href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca" class="">stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
  
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    I am so glad to hear others expressing frustration....I had a really
    difficult time getting everything to work.  Usually I assume that it
    is just me being klutzy with the interface, but this time really I
    don't think they could have made it harder if they tried.  Very
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    Stephanie Perrin<br class="">
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-11-10 17:46, Mawaki Chango
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      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Yeah McTim, let us set up a time and get some popcorn
        for our own remote synchronic watching of Youtube pre-recorded
        IGF.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">M.</p>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="">plus, the webex app wants to be able to read all
          the websites you visit.
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          <div class="">I will just watch the youtube videos!</div>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Janna
            Anderson <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:andersj@elon.edu" target="_blank" class="">andersj@elon.edu</a>></span>
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                  <div class="">I agree that there’s too much of a bar to remote
                    participation – more than ever before for IGF - and
                    it is definitely cutting people out. I keep getting
                    notices that rooms aren’t available or not “active”
                    when I can see on Twitter that people are posting
                    photos and conversations about what’s going on
                    inside them. I have been watching Twitter instead –
                    not even close to a good alternative.</div>
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                  <div class="">Janna</div>
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                    <span style="font-weight:bold" class="">From: </span>Sivasubramanian
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                    M <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>><br class="">
                    <span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Date: </span>Monday,
                    November 9, 2015 at 1:38 PM<br class="">
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                    <span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Subject: </span>[bestbits]
                    Ease of Remote Participation in the Brazil IGF<br class="">
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                            Remote Participation requires a separate
                            registration apart from Registration in the
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                            website and as a participant in the IGF. The
                            rooms are password protected.  Each room
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                            Once in the room, I find that the audio does
                            not work. ( I was told that the Conference
                            room is new, so the organizers probably have
                            some difficulties here ) But why would the
                            rooms require an entry password?  ICANN's
                            remote participation, in comparison, is set
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