[governance] Remote participation at Vilnius IGF 2010

[Adam Peake]

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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