Speaking particularly to Jovan's mention of 'hubs' -<div><br><div>one of the recurring themes in the IGC space is that the IGF is not and should not be considered as a meeting held once a year to discuss internet governance issues. Rather it is a continuing process of dialogue.</div>
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<div>That being the case, it would be desirable that the hubs should exist within the same context - that is they should be active all the time to extend the internet governance discussion into the global community/communities. The IGF has spread outwards into regional and local IGFs; now perhaps micro-local, geographic community level IG discussion needs to be encouraged, together with the wider ranging community of interest groupings that can be facilitated by the technology.</div>
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<div>The problems come with how to foster and encourage continuing discussion and how to aggregate and synthesise the resulting ideas so that they can be shared continually and considered by the widest possible community.</div>
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<div>I seem to have an aptitude for dreaming impossible dreams :-(</div><div><br></div><div>But it should be possible to make a start by considering the hubs as 'permanent' creations which attempt to keep the discussion active throughout the year with the 'reward' of the camaraderie which can be occasioned by remote participation at the big annual meeting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ideally the hubs are up and running now and ready to participate.</div><div><br></div><div>Deirdre</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 April 2012 10:14, Jovan Kurbalija <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jovank@diplomacy.edu" target="_blank">jovank@diplomacy.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Following up on Adam's invitation to discuss, here are a few
comments on IGF RP....<br>
<br>
It is good that we are moving out of Parento's formula of having 20%
of investment (people, training) contributing 80% to the success of
remote participation. The CSTD paper is a good blend of summarising
experience over the last 6 years and paving the way for the future
development. The RP process proves the importance of organic and
bottom-up policy making. <br>
<br>
Here are a few more concrete comments:<br>
<br>
- One can see cross-fertilisation among different policy spaces.
ICANN, which introduced transcription into the IG policy space, has
effective RP. The WSIS Forum has introduced also highly functional
RP. Last week, INET had both RP and remote hubs. Each policy space
has its own specificities, but there is a lot of possibilities for
learning from each other. At the next WSIS Forum there will be a
session on e-participation. Ginger will maintain the tradition of
RP-workshop at the IGF Baku, as well. Diplo has been trying to
promote e-participation in other policy spaces in the context of the
project "20 years of e-diplomacy". The first discussions are highly
encouraging. <br>
<br>
- Since the "venue" problems are identified and will be fixed, the
main challenge will be to have effective local hubs. The key
contribution of e-participation will be in linking global/regional
IG debates to the local policy context. The benefits will flow both
ways from global to local (understanding the wider policy context)
and from local to global (having reality check about policy
discussions). Local hubs should be part of the local policy
processes as well. I am sure that Ginger, Marilia, Bernard, Vlada
and other conveyers of local hubs can develop the recommendations
for the sub-section on local hubs. <br>
<br>
- E-facilitation and local hubs are one the ways to engage "silent
majority". The more IGF moves beyond traditional IGF circles, the
more relevant it will be to the world at large. Typically, the e-IGF
attracts the most active people on social media. But, e-facilitators
- especially in local hubs - should engage people beyond the "usual
circles". In the build-up for the IGF, local hubs should facilitate
discussion on the most pressing local issues.<br>
<br>
- We should develop some sort of incentives for local hubs
facilitators. It could be participation in the next IGF for the most
successful hubs and publishing of reports from the local hubs. Last
year we ran a pilot course on e-facilitation. The results were
good, and successful participants received a certificate, which some
of them used for e-facilitation in other policy spaces. This could
be also another encouragement.<br>
<br>
I reiterate Ginger's offer of Diplo support if we can help in any
way. I look forward to the continued discussion.<br>
<br>
Regards, Jovan <br><div><div>
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On 4/30/12 3:53 PM, Keisha Taylor wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Hi All,<br>
<br>
I like the ideas listed below. I think that the inclusion of
social media should be more formally introduced as part of remote
participation so that even if the sessions sometimes do not reach
people (for technical/timezone/bandwidth etc issues), the
conversations surrounding the sessions can reach a much bigger
audience even if the actual sessions were missed. <br>
<br>
I also think that it may be useful to use the IGF to gage opinions
or insight on various issues from not only IGF attendees but from
those who cannot attend. This be through surveys or other
lightweight but effective initiatives. The results of this I think
can provide some very interesting insight. <br>
<br>
Best<br>
<br>
Keisha<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Ginger
Paque <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ginger@paque.net" target="_blank">ginger@paque.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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Hello
everyone, and thanks for taking this important discussion
seriously.<br>
<br>
Adam Peake suggested we start a formal set of guidelines or
input to the IGF Remote Participation and Access issues for
Baku. </div>
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There
have been great suggestions already, which I have compiled
below. If anything is missing, please let us/me know. I add
any additional comments, and will put this in a more
coherent format before the end of the week.</div>
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Ginger:
Support the DCAD on access issues as RP and access are
closely linked Deidre says: Avoid conflating the issues</div>
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Have
a liason between RP working group or others who are working
on RP with Bernard or the IGF secretariat, to facilitate
coordination of volunteer efforts.</div>
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Ask
that experienced and new interested MAG members organize to
support these issues (Katitza? Vlada? others?)</div>
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Add
the guidelines and principles from previous IGF workshops.</div>
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</div>
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Anriette
Esterhuysen: refer to the report of the CSTD working</div>
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on IGF improvements:</span>
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<br>
2. Enhance measures for broader participation<br>
<br>
42. Remote participation is an integral part of the IGF.
While remote<br>
participation has improved, in particular through remote
moderators and<br>
hubs, there is still room for improvement in the following
areas:<br>
<br>
(a) The Secretariat should continue to ensure the
availability of<br>
adequate technical and human resources, including remote
moderators;<br>
(b) Chairs and moderators should give remote and on-site
participants<br>
equal recognition and the opportunity to participate;<br>
<br>
(c) Low-bandwidth connections to remote participation tools
should be<br>
accommodated;<br>
<br>
(d) Linguistic diversity in remote participation should be
fostered by<br>
ensuring that online meeting platforms interface with
on-site<br>
interpretation;<br>
<br>
(e) Mechanisms that facilitate remote participation, such as
live<br>
transcripts, should be kept as an integral part of the IGF.
Such<br>
mechanisms are invaluable not only to remote participants,
but also to<br>
non-English-speakers and to people with disabilities,
whether they are<br>
on site or not.<br>
<br>
43. It is important to ensure the accessibility of the IGF’s
facilities<br>
to persons with disabilities.<br>
<br>
44. To improve participation in the IGF of diverse
linguistic and<br>
cultural groups, it is important to expand linguistic
diversity<br>
functions in the work of the IGF. For example, this could be
achieved by<br>
(resources permitting):<br>
<br>
(a) Increasing the translation of key documents into United
Nations<br>
official languages;<br>
<br>
(b) Exploring the use of simultaneous machine translations
based on<br>
realtime English transcripts;<br>
<br>
(c) Encouraging the use of any of the United Nations
official languages,<br>
not only English, as the working language in some workshops.<br>
<br>
3. Improve the online visibility and accessibility of the
IGF<br>
<br>
45. A first step in this direction should be to enhance the
IGF’s<br>
website by providing interactive functionalities and making
it more<br>
attractive and inclusive. It should also maintain its
conformance with<br>
open standards and further improve accessibility to persons
with<br>
disabilities.</div>
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<a href="http://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/a67d65_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/a67d65_en.pdf</a></div>
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Deirdre
William: identify and train moderators, consider some kind
of recognition for volunteers</div>
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Nnenna:
Avoid last minute changes in programming, and consider how
they affect in situ and RP when necessary</div>
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Janna
Anderson: Good lighting in the room helps RP images - Roland
Perry: have to manage ppt/presentations in lighting as well.</div>
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Davies: Add social aggregator tool</span><br style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:small;white-space:normal;font-family:arial;word-spacing:0px" clear="all">
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<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 30 April 2012 08:18, Roland Perry
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roland@internetpolicyagency.com" target="_blank">roland@internetpolicyagency.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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In message <CAMz5XN6UmOe4X3U-DNTJsSnURUqu0p47G0-xWGKf8H=<a href="mailto:xfWm80Q@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">xfWm80Q@mail.gmail.com</a>>,
at 08:24:44 on Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Deirdre Williams <<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" target="_blank">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>>
writes<br>
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I also think that we should look at RP the other way
round too. Currently it isn't possible to make not being
physically present the same as being physically present.
Therefore we at least should be clear about what are
MUST HAVES and what may come later.<br>
<br>
Also I think it is vital NOT TO conflate RP with access
for people with disabilities. They are both separate and
important issues, and both of them deserve individual
attention<br>
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<br>
My point is that the same solution is equally useful to
either community. I wasn't making a judgement about which
community<br>
"deserved" the solution more than the other.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
-- <br>
Roland Perry<br>
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