[governance] Host country agreement

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Hi, such a booklet would be a nice practical outcome of the next forum 
meeting.
jeanette

Carlos Afonso wrote:
> I am temporarily in a meeting out of town, hard to follow the 
> discussion, but I can respond to this. The ICANN meeting in São Paulo 
> was the first in a row of meetings since at least Luxembourg in which 
> wi-fi worked, even in a room with more than 150 laptops connected 
> simultaneously.
> 
> Techies from CGI.br were responsible for the Internet acess project at 
> the venue, and we will count on them for IGF Rio and the related 
> meetings. They could write the book Kieren is suggesting. ;)
> 
> frt rgds
> 
> --c.a.
> 
> Kieren McCarthy wrote:
>> Wrt to the wireless access issue.
>>
>> What would be really good is if civil society could get together a small
>> group of network engineers who specialize in wireless access, and have 
>> some
>> experience of the strange laws that exist once you get past 20 people 
>> on a
>> wireless network, and offer them to the Secretariat as a consultancy.
>>
>> They could knock up some basic rules to follow, or infrastructural
>> approaches, give them to the Brazilians and then turn up a day or two 
>> before
>> the actual meeting to test the network and clear out any bugs.
>>
>> I've always thought the world is crying out for a Wiki-booklet on Wi-Fi
>> conference access and another on conference Webcasting. You see the same
>> mistakes again and again across the world.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kieren
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Avri Doria [mailto:avri at psg.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 
>> 2007 6:17 PM
>> To: Vittorio Bertola
>> Cc: Governance Caucus
>> Subject: Re: [governance] Host country agreement
>>
>> <no longer under contract to IGF secretariat>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In principle I agree it would be a good idea.  In practice, if things  
>> go as they have before in IGf and WSIS, the host country agreement  
>> will be signed long after the arrangements are pretty solid.
>>
>> So i think it is important to ask, but the fact that they are in the  
>> agreement might not be the gating factor.
>>
>> a.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 20 feb 2007, at 12.23, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>>
>>> Jeanette Hofmann ha scritto:
>>>> The caucus statement last week mentioned a few things such as food.
>>> (and cheap accommodation)
>>>
>>>> Additionally I would find it important to have:
>>>> * enough shuttles between hotels and conference venue
>>> (perhaps also, though of course at a much lesser frequency, to  
>>> airport and city centre, unless there is adequate public  
>>> transportation available)
>>>> * storage rooms for computers
>>>> * the possibility to reserve additional rooms, i.e. for meetings  of 
>>>> dynamic coalitions
>>>> * remote participation facilities need specification (this is  taken 
>>>> care of elsewhere)
>>>> What else?
>>> * as good wi-fi coverage as possible in the rooms
>>> * power outlets in the rooms!
>>> * if possible, free/cheap wi-fi or wired Internet connectivity in  
>>> the hotels as well, maybe as part of the accommodation package.
>>> -- 
>>> vb.                   Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu   <--------
>>> -------->  finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/  <--------
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