[bestbits] Ease of Remote Participation in the Brazil IGF

[Sivasubramanian M]

Thank you Janna. ICANN meetings happen on adobe, the rooms don't require a
password, so there is good and increasing participation. The design of
remote participation in this IGF does keep participants out.

Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Janna Anderson <andersj at elon.edu> wrote:

> I agree that there’s too much of a bar to remote participation – more than
> ever before for IGF - and it is definitely cutting people out. I keep
> getting notices that rooms aren’t available or not “active” when I can see
> on Twitter that people are posting photos and conversations about what’s
> going on inside them. I have been watching Twitter instead – not even close
> to a good alternative.
>
> Janna
>
> From: Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, November 9, 2015 at 1:38 PM
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> Subject: [bestbits] Ease of Remote Participation in the Brazil IGF
>
> Remote Participation requires a separate registration apart from
> Registration in the intgovforum.org website and as a participant in the
> IGF. The rooms are password protected.  Each room requires a separate?
> password
>
> Once in the room, I find that the audio does not work. ( I was told that
> the Conference room is new, so the organizers probably have some
> difficulties here ) But why would the rooms require an entry password?
> ICANN's remote participation, in comparison, is set up for participants to
> join easily.
>
> Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>
>
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