<div dir="ltr"><div>There is no doubt that we must keep this issue alive, and address problems as they arise, and, even more, work to plan/prevent them. The IGF in particular, is doing its best to make sure that each meeting has better online participation than the last. This MAG (2015) is putting high priority on online participation in meetings. If you have any comments or suggestions that we should take into account, or just that you want to reiterate, feel free to email me <a href="mailto:virginiap@diplomacy.edu">virginiap@diplomacy.edu</a>.<br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>Ginger<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Ginger (Virginia) Paque</div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">DiploFoundation</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.3333330154419px"><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><i>DiploFoundation upcoming online courses:</i><span style="font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"> </span><a href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-align:-webkit-auto" target="_blank">http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses</a></p></div></div><font style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" size="1"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-style:italic"><i><i><a href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(35,71,162)"></span></a></i></i></span></span></font><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;height:16px"></span><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;height:16px"></span><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;height:16px"></span><div><i></i><br><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></i></b></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 April 2015 at 10:28, Deirdre Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" target="_blank">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Arsene,<div>It used to be (my observation) that meetings concerning the internet had a default position of trying to make their proceedings accessible online - if you are discussing a communication tool it seems good sense also to use it. However recently (again my observation) this practice has become less common. The ITU, the IGF and ICANN do their best within their financial capabilities, some institutions having larger budgets than others. "[I]nternational IG meetings" is something of an awkward construct since the majority of IG meetings are international in nature - in their speakers and/or their participants. </div><div><br></div><div>I checked (not as carefully as I might have done - my non-virtual life is quite busy at the moment) for remote access to the meeting in the Hague. Judith says that remote access was available, but I would propose that the links were rather less easy to find than is usual with a meeting of that size. Recently I became aware of a meeting to be held in Malta at the end of the month. I was interested to attend so asked about remote participation. I was told that they were trying but the budget probably wouldn't stretch so far.</div><div>I hope this clarifies my original message.</div><div><br></div><div>I agree with Daniel, David and Michael - participation is crucially important, and in the context of the internet should NOT be measured in terms of physical presence.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Deirdre</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 April 2015 at 09:39, Arsene TUNGALI (Yahoo) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arsenebaguma@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">arsenebaguma@yahoo.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div>Hi De,</div><div dir="ltr">Trying to understand your point... <br></div><div dir="ltr">Do you mean there is less remote participation possibilities offered for international IG meetings?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks for clarifying for me,</div><div dir="ltr">A <br></div><div><div><font size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font color="#347d7e">------------------------------------------------------</font></b></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,127)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><u><b><i>Arsène Tungali,</i></b></u></font></div><div><font size="2">Co-founder and Executive Director, </font><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rudiinternational.org/" style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;font-size:small" target="_blank">Rudi International</a></div><div><font size="2">Founder, <span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mabingwa-forum.com/" target="_blank">Mabingwa Forum</a></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-size:small;font-style:italic">Work email:</span><span style="font-size:small"> <a href="mailto:arsenebaguma@gmail.com" target="_blank">arsenebaguma@gmail.com</a></span></div><div><font size="2"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/arsenebaguma" target="_blank">Facebook</a> - <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/arsenebaguma" target="_blank">Twitter</a> -<a rel="nofollow"> </a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/arsene-tungali/40/825/344/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></font></div><div><div><font size="2">Internet Governance - Blogger - ISOC Member - ICANN Fellow - IGF Fellow.</font></div><div><font style="font-weight:bold" size="2">Democratic Republic of Congo</font></div></div></div><div><div> <br><div><br><br></div><div style="display:block"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Le Mardi 21 avril 2015 15h32, Nick Ashton-Hart <<a href="mailto:nashton@consensus.pro" target="_blank">nashton@consensus.pro</a>> a écrit :<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div>While I am sure we all agree with the sentiment - and I am certain that I’m relatively spoiled as I attend anything in Geneva in person - it would be helpful to see some examples of meetings where this is a problem, and especially, where annual meetings have decreased remote participation options.<br><br>> On 21 Apr 2015, at 05:15, David Cake <<a href="mailto:dave@difference.com.au" target="_blank">dave@difference.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>> This is a serious issue. We strongly need to encourage and expand remote participation, not decrease it.<br>> <br>> Remote participation in the form of webcasts and assigned remote participation people to ask questions on behalf of remote participants is a bare minimum. Improving remote participation by whatever means - mechanisms such as properly staffed remote hubs, screens so that remote participant comments are visible to those in the room, enabling telepresence panellist participation, etc spring to mind - should be the what we are aiming for, not just maintaining the minimal levels of participation.<br>> <br>> While multi-stakeholder processes may be much more open than those gatekeepered by governments, they will remain the province of a relatively small elite unless we can ensure that physical travel is not a necessity for participation. I think we currently do this OK for working group style processes, we don’t do it at all well for higher level processes.<br>> <br>> Regards<br>> <br>> David<br>> <br>>> On 21 Apr 2015, at 8:04 am, Deirdre Williams <<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" target="_blank">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> <br>>> Colleagues,<br>>> During the discussion of recent internet governance related meetings I don't remember seeing any comments about the steady erosion of remote participation or even webcasts.<br>>> Considering the area being discussed by these meetings this seems to me to be a very serious loss.<br>>> How do others feel?<br>>> Deirdre<br>>> <br>>> --<br>>> “The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979<br>>> ____________________________________________________________<br>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br>>> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>>> To be removed from the list, visit:<br>>> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br>>> <br>>> For all other list information and functions, see:<br>>> <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance" target="_blank">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a><br>>> To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br>>> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a><br>>> <br>>> Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a><br>> <br><br>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, visit:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br><br>For all other list information and functions, see:<br> <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance" target="_blank">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a><br>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a><br><br>Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979</div>
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