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<p>Nanog and the rest of the network operations community calls these
lightning talks and i agree they are a very useful way to kickstart
discussions and generate ideas if not always to achieve consensus in the
short time available for such a dialog. <br>
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It would be great to see these introduced. And i am very glad that remote
collaboration and social tools are being deployed on this scale.<br>
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Thanks for sharing <br>
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--srs (htc one x)<br>
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<p>On 21 July 2013 7:12:32 PM Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy@ciroap.org> wrote:</p>
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<head></head>We tend to be a bit sanctimonious about the shortcomings of
the ITU, but the IGF could take a leaf out of its book in relation to some
of the procedural innovations of its non-high-level meetings. I've
previously harped on the lost opportunity of "speed dialogues" that were
promised for Rio, but that extended only to local participants. This
has progressed into the use of innovative tools for remote participants to
engage also, in this case for the upcoming Global Youth Summit: BYND
2015. See below for an overview of these. Why can't the IGF
muster the imagination to try anything like this?<div><div><br><div>Begin
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style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From:
</b></span><span
style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"ITU Press Office"
<<a
href="mailto:pressoffice@itu.int">pressoffice@itu.int</a>><br></span></div><div
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style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject:
</b></span><span
style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Global Youth Summit:
BYND 2015</b><br></span></div><div
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style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date:
</b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">12 July
1913 9:13:05 PM GMT+07:00<br></span></div><div
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style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To:
</b></span><span
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<<a
href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div>Communiqué<br><br>Global
Youth Summit: BYND 2015 -<br>Crowdsourcing the Summit outcomes - initial
tools announced<br><br>Geneva, 11 July, 2013 - The BYND2015 Global Youth
Summit (<a
href="http://www.itu.int/en/bynd2015/Pages/default.aspx">http://www.itu.int/en/bynd2015/Pages/default.aspx</a>)
will mobilize youth to join forces and create solutions for social good,
enabled through widespread access to information and communication
technologies (ICTs). Young people are pioneering the use of new
technologies, and driving trends in what is a dynamic and major growth
industry. The good news is they are using ICTs, the challenge is to inspire
use of ICTs in constructive and empowering ways. The BYND2015 Summit will
bring young people together - online and offline - who are helping their
world through technology, to inspire and challenge one another, and
mobilize others to do the same.<br><br>A key attraction to the BYND2015
Summit is the innovative platform it provides for youth to speak to world
leaders about their priorities for the ICT sector. A major outcome of the
event will be developed around a short policy statement which captures the
key issues and recommendations as identified by a worldwide community of
young people. To help source these from a representative and diverse group,
the summit will make use of several innovative crowd management and
analytical tools which go live in beta version today.<br><br>ITU is working
with Google, Crowdicity and Ripple to provide a seamless user experience
for participants engaging with the BYND2015 Summit tools in a process
spanning between 10 July and the September event. Overall community
platform will happen through a Google+ community (<a
href="https://plus.google.com/communities/101860858149749340788">https://plus.google.com/communities/101860858149749340788</a>)
serving as the online location for attendees to connect and to create and
share content in the run up to BYND2015 in September. <br><br>Specific
challenges on the themes of the Summit will be explored on a Crowdicity
platform <a
href="http://itu.crowdicity.com/">http://itu.crowdicity.com/</a>), which
facilitates advanced feedback which sees users polled on and critiquing
others' ideas through a series of phases until just before the event. To
help measure the online conversation and ensure a truly global perspective
across multiple platforms, Ripple (<a
href="http://www.rippleplatform.com/">http://www.rippleplatform.com/</a>)
will provide unique analytics and metrics on the key issues being discussed
and top trending discussions across the entire web. <br><br>BYND2015
Summit participants will thus be provided with live updates as well as real
time analytics on the nature of the debate in the run-up, and will have the
opportunity to drive a truly global discussion around the issues. This will
be used as input to frame dialogue and workshops onsite, where additional
brainstorming and polling will see a final set of priorities crowd-sourced
and decided upon, and ultimately delivered to the United Nations General
Assembly by the President of Costa Rica - Laura Chinchilla - in late
September. <br><br>For information see ITU blog BYND2015 - Tapping into the
Crowd to Source Solutions at:<br><a
href="http://itu4u.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/bynd2015-tapping-into-the-crowd-to-source-solutions/">http://itu4u.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/bynd2015-tapping-into-the-crowd-to-source-solutions/</a>
<br><br>For more information, please visit <a
href="http://www.itu.int/en/bynd2015">www.itu.int/en/bynd2015</a><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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