<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Dear all,</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I am very happy to see that the discussion about remote participation has continued after the IGF and that is has mobilized very active people on this list, who have provided valuable inputs and suggestions so far. I agree with most of what has been said. We will be writing a brief and concise report about remote participation in the IGF 2009 and I hope that we can include your opinions. A short questionnaire will be created and advertised.</font></font></span></p>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I would like to share with you some objective information about remote participation this year. Afterwards, I will send another e-mail with some personal comments about it.</font></font></span></div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Webcast:</font></font></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">- Audio and video transmitted from main session and workshop room 1 (Sinai)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">- Audio transmitted from 4 workshop rooms. Until the second day of the event we had only license to use 5 rooms in Webex. When the other licenses were given (day 3), we created more 2 rooms, in accordance with the interests of the hub organizers in particular workshops. We could not create webex rooms for all workshops because there were not enough volunteers to be remote moderators (people to be in the computers, receiving the remote questions and forwarding them to the panel moderators).</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">- The quality of the webcast has been much better than the year before, according to the feedback received so far</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">- During the event we have managed to integrate the webcast inside Webex, but due to lack of training of remote moderators (Diplo fellows volunteered on the first day, young Egyptians volunteered from the second day of the event onwards) some moderators did not know how to proceed to integrate the webcast</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">- Webex was the official platform for interaction. The licenses to use Webex were provided by Cisco and a group of amazing Egyptian technicians were responsible for installing all the necessary infrastructure in the workshop rooms. Other platform (Elluminate) was used in one workshop and it was provided by the workshop organizers.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">- Interaction through other channels (Twitter, facebook, etc) was encouraged, but they were not official channels for remote participation in the IGF</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">- We had 11 hubs registered. We have constantly been in touch with 8 of them during the event and they were actively involved. We have not received feedback from the others.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">- In the rooms in which Webex was available people could send questions through chat</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">- If people let us know in advance, they could make audio questions and remote interventions. If the bandwidth was not enough to guarantee quality of transmission, we asked remote speakers to record their presentations and send to us. Ginger and Hong Xue made use of this possibility</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">- In the main session, questions could be sent by e-mail</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">- Training in the webex platform was provided for hub organizers, on 10/11, 11/11, 12/11 and 13/11. They could choose of these days to participate</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">- The original idea was to also train remote moderators, but they were not appointed in advance, so it was not possible to do it. We have tried as much as possible to provide assistance to the Egyptian volunteers.</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I hope that this information will be useful as a snapshot of what we had available on the ground and to evaluate what has been done and what should be done to improve remote participation.</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Marília</font></font></span></p><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, William Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch">william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im"><br>On Nov 25, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Roland Perry wrote:<br><br>> In message <1259135395.3296.379.camel@anriette-laptop>, at 09:49:55 on Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Anriette Esterhuysen <<a href="mailto:anriette@apc.org">anriette@apc.org</a>> writes<br>
>> At one of the workshops I participated in, the 'Development Agenda'<br>>> workshop on the 17th organised by Bill Drake, remote participation<br>>> worked extremely well.<br>>><br>>> This must in large part have to do with Derrick Cogburn's excellent<br>
>> handling of the process, as well as Bill's sensitivity to the remote<br>>> participants, and the fact that it was a three hour workshop which meant<br>>> there was sufficient time to include the remote participants.<br>
><br>> Maybe that's the answer - bringing the audience more positively into the picture. When I was on a panel, there was someone monitoring the remote participation, and periodically asking if anyone had any comments, but none were forthcoming. But that was a room without video - and it was never fully clear to me how many of the non-video rooms had an audio-cast.<br>
><br>>> I also found it helpful as a panellist to have the remote participation<br>>> (Eluminate) interface open on my laptop which enabled me to interact<br>>> with the remote participants directly.<br>
><br>> Is that the same application that was running the webcast? (Which had a note on it asking on-site people not to use it because of bandwidth issues)? Maybe part of the panel preparations should be giving at least the chair/moderator a laptop which is pre-registered with the relevant room.<br>
<br></div>There were two platforms running in parallel. Derrick arranged to provide Elluminate, which included voice, video, chat, and display of the power points, but when we arrived we discovered that the host had provided a laptop and the standard voice/chat. Given sound quality issues, we just read out all the questions typed in the two chat spaces, as well as the text of one panelist who was not able to come to Sharm.<br>
<div class="im">><br>>> Personally I feel that while there is still a long way to go, remote<br>>> participation was much more effective this year than in the previous<br>>> IGFs.<br><br></div>Agree with Anriette.<br>
<br>Best,<br><br>Bill<br>
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