Dear All,<br><br>This is fantastic news. Robert, this is great to know. We have also published a Draft Statement on the website and inviting comments. We thank Deirdre Williams for consolidating thoughts from the Emails on the subject.<br>
<br>Visit: <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/digressit/?p=32">http://www.igcaucus.org/digressit/?p=32</a><br><br>The alternative is to visit the Statement workspace.<br><br>Kind Regards,<br>Sala<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Robert Guerra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rguerra@privaterra.org">rguerra@privaterra.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>In regards to remote participation, there are efforts underway for IGF 2012 for improve the situation.</div><div><br></div><div>Not sure some of you caught it, but during the Open MAG meeting this past week in Geneva Google mentioned that they were going to be supporting the IGF Secretariat in the months to come. It was specifically mentioned that they are making a contribution to the IGF fund and would like to work with them to improve the virtual participation of the Open Meetings and IGF as a whole.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There's defiantly a need to strategically improve the remote participation modalities at the IGF and its related preparatory meetings (Open Consultation, MAG meetings, etc). Both volunteer and professional assistance, in my opinion, is most welcome . </div>
<div><br></div><div><div>What type of assistance and/or support will be provided - well, hopefully we'll find out soon from the Secretariat and/or Google. </div></div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div><br></div><div>
Robert</div><div><br></div><div><div>
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<br><div><div>On 2012-02-19, at 6:13 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div>On 19/02/2012, at 8:50 AM, Marilia Maciel wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I have included the main points of this discussions (ex: preparatory meetings conducted online, etc) among my contributions to the next meeting of the WG on IGF improvements. I have also mentioned the workshop on RP and the main principles that have been jointly drafted last year. I hope that this is taken into account on the discussions.</div>
</blockquote><br></div><div>Also this, which dates from 2008:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.igf-online.net/wiki/IGF_Virtual_Community" target="_blank">http://wiki.igf-online.net/wiki/IGF_Virtual_Community</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>The plan was never implemented but we are still complaining about the same deficiencies today.</div><br><div>
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