[governance] Remote participation at Vilnius IGF 2010

Tue Oct 5 15:21:50 EDT 2010

Hello,

We organized a hub at Chennai, which was initially meant to be a small room
for 30 people sponsored by GreatLakes Institute of
Managment<http://www.greatlakes.edu.in/>,
but after we met with the management of this School of Management, they
committed a lot more resources - made available a world class Smart
Classroom for 60 participants, ample bandwidth, a large auditorium for 300
for occasional meetings, transportation facilities for participants from the
city, and as many rooms as we wanted for those who chose to stay.

This is a very serious business school with an amazingly loaded time-table
that kept students occupied at least until midnight seven days a week, but
still class room were realigned to accommodate participation.  Over a
hundred students took turns to participate in the various sessions.

http://isocmadras.blogspot.com/2010/09/igf-remote-participation-hub-at-great.html

This was also an occasion to invite youth participation in the IGF:

http://isocmadras.blogspot.com/2010/09/youth-participation-in-internet.html

The Isoc Chennai hub at GreatLakes http://greatlakes.edu.in/ is an
experiment which indicates that academic Institutions can play a pivotal
role in enhancing youth participation in Internet Governance. It felt good
to be with the students who organized and took part in the IGF hub.

Those working on improving youth participation may draw the attention of
academic institutions to the role of GreatLakes in facilitating the Chennai
hub.

Sivasubramanian M
http://turiya.co.in

http://www.isocmadras.com
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Tim Davies <
tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk> wrote:

> This highlights a useful distinction to think about when planning
> developments of Remote Participation: how much development of RP should
> focus on technical development - and how much on developing the facilitation
> process and the skills/awareness of remote participation amongst panellists
> and participants.
>
> (E.g. We tried to get a information sheet on the online social reporting
> process into the delegate bags this year... and trying to do similar with a
> one-page description of Remote Participation and how people physically in
> the room can best support effective RP in delegates packs for IGF11 /
> information on posters outside rooms... may go a long way to helping the
> process - as right now often physical participants are unaware of what RP is
> / is like.)
>
> I get the sense a big part of effective RP this year was about having
> skilled and engaged facilitators at both ends of the connection... and
> continuing to develop the role of these facilitators may be a worthwhile
> area to think about.
>
> Tim
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>
>> The facilities made available for remote participation were amazing:
>>  video and real time transcripts from every room a great achievement.
>>
>> During security, openness, privacy session Kieren did a very good job of
>> bringing in the remote hubs and also telling us of how many people were
>> there in a particular place: 44 people in Dhaka, naming the hubs that were
>> following and chatting. Gave a good sense that we weren't alone in the room,
>> the hubs started to became a real  people rather than something off in the
>> ether.
>>
>> Suggest next time each of the hubs and moderators are encouraged to find
>> out who is online, how many, where are they.  Make them more real.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>>
>>  Olivier's well documented challenges here are quite real.
>>>
>>> Not wanting to simplify the problem too much ... but it might be useful
>>> to break this down to its most fundamental. To me, from both a technical and
>>> business view, it appears to be a matter of perspective and priority.
>>>
>>> For this to really work and for the technicians to fully "get" what the
>>> objectives are, each IGF Workshop or Event should, in fact,
>>> be philosophically treated as an old school "Webinar", in a manner of
>>> speaking, as opposed to a dealing with it as an in situ event/workshop with
>>> Remote Participants being seen as the "outsiders".
>>>
>>> I expect that if we adopt this perspective then the most basic issues of
>>> how to best wire the PA systems, how remote participants engage with the
>>> Event as equals (for eg. simple things as whether the presentation being
>>> viewed in situ is the identical to and moves at the same speed as the one in
>>> the possession of the Remote Moderation "hat") will actually be resolved
>>> relatively easily ... putting the more logistical issues of bandwidth,
>>> delays, acoustics etc. aside for the moment.
>>>
>>> Of course, having the actual architects/engineers of the Remote
>>> Participation technology engaged at all stages (including in situ) will also
>>> be more than useful.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Tracy
>>>
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