Remote participation plans Re: [OCDC] Re: [governance] Do we

[Ken Lohento]

> And yet, as I pointed out in Rio, there were 325 messages on Slashdot 
> about the IGF in the space of a day.  So it's not that people aren't 
> interested in contributing, it's that:
>
Certainly it might (also?) be because Slashdot has already (before the 
IGF) a community of people who use to exchange/community. IGF and 
discussions about IGF was/is new. However it would be interesting to 
analyse what those who exchanged on Slashdot discussed.

> (a) the forms in which their input is taken are too limited (eg. new 
> main topics cannot be created in the IGF's Discussion Space, and 
> emails usually disappear into a black hole);

I really think most, if not all, emails that were sent to email 
addresses provided for IGF 1 and 2 were processed and some people did 
have their comments read in public.

> (b) they do not feel that their input is valued (eg. I was told, "We 
> did not put your submission up initially because we thought the speed 
> dialogue issue was already extensively covered in the paper you 
> submitted for the second IGF. Moreover, it has been addressed during 
> the open consultation in May"); 


Yes this might happen unfortunately. Even not all those who attend 
physically sessions and want the floor are given the opportunity to talk 
(maybe because what they want to say was already discussed or for other 
reasons). We can insist that greater consideration is paid to remote 
participants inputs so that they contributions are communicated to the 
public, in order to encourage those contributions.

However, what really appears very clearly for people who monitored the 
email accounts is that facility is not really used. Maybe people don't 
trust that facility as you said, but it's an adequate facility for most 
people and so far people have been very inclined to adequately process 
contributions sent. The reality is that mails (apart from spams) are so 
rare in these accounts that when you see them, you are very happy and 
convey them to the session chair.

KL
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