[governance] Re: remote participation

[David Allen]

Here's a post prepared late in the session, on this subject.  (The 
opening paras ping from comments made earlier in the session. 
Incidentally, only VLC would pull in the stream for any period of 
time.)

>We were tempted to take advantage of asynchronous options, with a 
>Geneva morning the middle of the night here.  Yes, in remote 
>participation, time differences are one of the differences.
>
>And we would take a static connection any time - static, anyway, if 
>it didn't constantly ask to be re-started.  Ain't technology 
>wonderful?!  Especially when it is still a little bit a beta release.
>
>To be a little more serious:  We suggest serious thinking about what 
>real participation is possible, when participants are remote.  To 
>listen, and even watch (if the link stays up), is a pleasure.  It is 
>a different matter when it comes to making an intervention in the 
>meeting.  Or, when it comes to (wanting to) talk to colleagues in 
>the corridor.
>
>Two-way video is an established tool today - and with bandwidth, 
>even easy to do.  But that is a step beyond where we are in IGF 
>infrastructure.  And many would-be remote participants will not have 
>the bandwidth.
>
>If we do not go to two-way video - and I would be surprised if we do 
>- we suggest serious thought about our expectations for remote 
>participation and just how to configure it.

What we actually can enable, for participation, is going to be a useful topic.

I expect most are aware that Jeremy Malcolm, with Kieren McCarthy, 
have got a dynamic coalition on the subject 
http://igf2006.info/wiki/IGF-OCDC intended to be hands-on and 
helpful.  Kieren presented on the coalition, the first comments in 
the afternoon.

David

At 3:19 PM -0500 2/13/07, John Mathiason wrote:
>I also tried to get the video of the afternoon session but got an 
>error message (bad request).  It would be important to fix these 
>glitches before Rio.  I agree with the other posters that if we can 
>make the IGF connected (and this may require different software than 
>was used), we have a reasonable chance of engaging stakeholders who 
>can't afford to travel.
>
>Regards,
>
>John
>
>On Feb 13, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Izumi AIZU wrote:
>
>>Dear Nitin and all IGFers,
>>
>>Congratulations for all of you who are now in Geneva at
>>IGF consulation meeting and I appreciate your effort
>>to extend the meeting in the remote participation
>>channel.
>>
>>However, sorry to say, that the quality of the webcast
>>is far from pragmatic, the voice was cut so often that
>>it is not possible to keep the concentration and
>>make good understandings of what is going on.
>>
>>I don't mean this is sort of criticism, but just a reality
>>check. I hope the webcast i nRio will be much better
>>in quality
>>
>>Izumi Aizu
>>from Tokyo - local time 0:30 in the morning.
>>
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>>
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>>              Kumon Center, Tama University
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