<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">As a happy remote participant, I too would like to add my congratulations to all who made remote participation work so well this year.<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Rebecca<br><div><br></div><div>Rebecca MacKinnon<br>Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation<br>Co-founder, <a href="http://GlobalVoicesOnline.org">GlobalVoicesOnline.org</a><br>Cell: +1-617-939-3493<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:rebecca.mackinnon@gmail.com">rebecca.mackinnon@gmail.com</a><br>Blog: <a href="http://RConversation.blogs.com">http://RConversation.blogs.com</a><br>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/rmack">http://twitter.com/rmack</a></div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 25, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Janna Anderson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Great work by Ginger and MANY people who led and assisted in so many ways. It really is beginning to feel to those who must participate remotely as if you are really there, on the scene while still so far away. There’s more work to be done on this, but thanks to the people who facilitated it in so many ways this year. I was in North Carolina the entire time, but I feel that between conversations on this list and on Twitter, the IGF Secretariat’s provision of timely information, the contributions of organizations like Cisco, the persistence of many individuals including those who were the catalysts for hubs and remote moderators that it really was a GLOBAL IGF.<br>
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Congratulations to all!<br>
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Janna<br>
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On 9/25/10 7:56 AM, "Ginger Paque" <<a href="x-msg://20/gpaque@gmail.com">gpaque@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span></font><blockquote type="cite"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></font><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">Remote participation at the IGF Vilnius 2010 raised the bar for remote participation in international public policy meetings. Not in sheer volume, although 600+ individuals is a good number, but in actual inclusion and participation, with 33 registered remote hubs and dozens of remote panelists, this IGF was indeed a global success.</font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> While there was successful remote observation with excellent webcast, audiocast and captioning, there was also the possibility of real remote <i>participation</i> for those who wanted to comment, ask questions and respond, with the same privileges and priorities as those who attended in person. <br>
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The next step will be to ensure that remote participants take advantage of this possibility, and that remote moderators learn to transmit the interest and personal power of the comments so that their impact is tangibly felt in the meeting room.<br>
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An interesting (unforeseen) development was chat exchanges between remote hubs on the WebEx platform, as remote hubs gave feedback to presentations or comments by other remote hubs. <br>
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Pre-IGF preparations were better than ever, with strategy, planning, training and information from the first 2010 OC in Geneva.<br>
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I would like to thank the volunteer remote moderators from the panels, DiploFoundation fellows and the ISOC ambassadors program for their engagement and precious time and energy; the Lithuania host for their support and their tech teams; the IGF Secretariat for their support and follow-up, DiploFoundation for constant backup, and my fellow RPWG members for their year-round worry, work and dynamic involvement.<br>
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Thanks to all of the hub organizers for their work to include people from all over the world in this meeting too.<br>
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The RPWG will publish a report later this year. We look forward to your comments and suggestions. <br>
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Warm regards,<br>
Ginger <br>
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Janna Quitney Anderson<br>
Director of Imagining the Internet<br>
<a href="http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org">www.imaginingtheinternet.org</a><br>
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Associate Professor of Communications<br>
Director of Internet Projects<br>
School of Communications<br>
Elon University<br>
<a href="x-msg://20/andersj@elon.edu">andersj@elon.edu</a><br>
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