[governance] Remote participation at Vilnius IGF 2010

Thu Oct 7 09:47:01 EDT 2010

Dear Jean Paul

Thank You for your good words.  :)

Sivasubramanian M

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Jean Paul NKURUNZIZA <
nkurunziza1999 at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> 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<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
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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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