[governance] What happened with the hubs?

[Roland Perry]

In message <1259135395.3296.379.camel at anriette-laptop>, at 09:49:55 on 
Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> writes
>At one of the workshops I participated in, the 'Development Agenda'
>workshop on the 17th organised by Bill Drake, remote participation
>worked extremely well.
>
>This must in large part have to do with Derrick Cogburn's excellent
>handling of the process, as well as Bill's sensitivity to the remote
>participants, and the fact that it was a three hour workshop which meant
>there was sufficient time to include the remote participants.

Maybe that's the answer - bringing the audience more positively into the 
picture. When I was on a panel, there was someone monitoring the remote 
participation, and periodically asking if anyone had any comments, but 
none were forthcoming. But that was a room without video - and it was 
never fully clear to me how many of the non-video rooms had an 
audio-cast.

>I also found it helpful as a panellist to have the remote participation
>(Eluminate) interface open on my laptop which enabled me to interact
>with the remote participants directly.

Is that the same application that was running the webcast? (Which had a 
note on it asking on-site people not to use it because of bandwidth 
issues)? Maybe part of the panel preparations should be giving at least 
the chair/moderator a laptop which is pre-registered with the relevant 
room.

>Personally I feel that while there is still a long way to go, remote
>participation was much more effective this year than in the previous
>IGFs.

It was potentially more effective than emailing the secretariat with 
questions, I agree. Meanwhile I was quite busy on Skype and Twitter, 
alongside email and a private Jabber room; sometimes there's a limit to 
the number of channels one person can have open (yes, including 
listening to the people in the room).

Roland.

>Anriette
>
>On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 07:23 +0000, Roland Perry wrote:
>> In message <2bd2431a0911241230x59109c06k5325b69ddf9ec2a at mail.gmail.com>,
>> at 15:30:35 on Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Antonio Medina Gómez
>> <amedinagomez at gmail.com> writes
>> >We coordinate the IGF Colombia and gives us the opportunity to
>> >participate virtually the IGF in Egypt. The work is of great
>> >importance.
>> >I think that we really a great experience from the Remote Hub and this
>> >is profit and not lost.
>>
>> This year the streamed output from the IGF was very good, and there's an
>> excellent archive of video material on the IGF website; both of which
>> are a great benefit. My question, however, was about the flow of
>> information in the other direction.
>>
>> >2009/11/24 Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
>> >  Just interested to know how well the remote participation worked. As
>> >  a conscientious on-site attendee all week, I only heard one
>> >  intervention/question arrive via the remote participation.
>> >
>> >  Was that because they had little to say, or was there some other
>> >  issue?
>>
>
>

-- 
Roland Perry
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