[governance] Remote participation at Vilnius IGF 2010

Thu Oct 7 04:51:59 EDT 2010

Hello Sivasubramanian, 

Congratulation for this successful remote hub in Chennai. I am especially 
touched by this big logistics. I can understand it was a big event.
Regards

 NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul

Tel : +257 79 981459

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De : Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>
À : governance at lists.cpsr.org; Tim Davies <tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk>
Cc : Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>
Envoyé le : Mar 5 octobre 2010, 21h 21min 50s
Objet : Re: [governance] Remote participation at Vilnius IGF 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, 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
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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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