[governance] Draft IGC short Statement on remote participation

[Izumi AIZU]

Thanks Sala,

though it was too late to include this in the statement I made already,
I will try to incorporate it with the CSTD IGF WG meeting next week.

best,

izumi


2012/2/17 Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>:
> My comments are inline [sorry just woke up]
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Thanks Imran and Marilia, and also some comments on Skype channel, and
>> I also spoke with Seiichi and the guys from Turin.
>>
>> I tried to incorporate all suggestions, as follows:
>> more comments welcome.
>>
>> izumi
>>
>> ---
>> IGC Statement on Remote Participation
>>
>> We like to reiterate that remote participation is a crucial part of
>> organizing IGF and we appreciate the effort to provide remote
>> participation for the Open consultation and MAG meetings which were
>> opened to observers.
>
>
> We have to move beyond advocacy to listing and creating tangible outcomes to
> make improved remote participation a necessity.
>
> There are regions around the world where transportation is extremely
> expensive and one such region is the Pacific which has 22 countries and
> territories.Remote participation was the only way that any of these
> countries could access the IGF. However there is room to improve processes
> and create an IGF culture where remote participation is prioritised through
> setting up parallel screens that enable people to chat and stream in to the
> sessions where those who are at the meeting can read these chats or feeds in
> text form and also see the various hubs who are participating. There should
> be a select task force or Working Group created that has representatives
> from the Government, Private Sector and Civil Society that is dedicated to
> seeing  improvements of Remote Participation.
>
> These improvements transcend having the appropriate technical solutions and
> should also include the following:-
>
> Outreach;
> Mapping local and regional stakeholders;
> Coordinating with people on the ground 10 months before the IGF in a series
> of strategic roll out;
> Identifying how the private sector, civil society and governments can be
> better involved in the remote hubs etc
>>
>>
>> We like to commend the excellent work of the technical team from
>> Politecnico di Torino, or The Polytechnic University of Turin which
>> was originally brought by our colleague Vittorio Bertola in the first
>> place.
>>
>> Building on that, we like to point out and suggest the followings to
>> further improve our remote participation:
>>
>> There were some problems with video feeds and there was not a clear
>> procedure that would encourage remote participants to intervene. This
>> idea should encompass those physically present in Geneva and those
>> observing the meeting remotely.
>>
>> We regret that remote observers were effectively excluded from the MAG
>> meeting, because they had no access to live transcript. And we must
>> add that even Mag members trying to participate online had difficulty
>> in contacting moderators
>>
>> We urge MAG and IGF secretariat and ourselves, to consider the
>> followings for the future IGF organizing work and IGF itself and work
>> together:
>>
>> Provide as much interactivity as possible.
>> Ensure equal participation between online and offline participants
>>
>> Prepare a clear guideline for remote participation and its moderation
>>
>> Always assign exclusive remote participation coordinator/moderator
>> (who do not have other jobs at the same time and is responsible to
>> interact between the meeting physical participants+ speaker and the
>> Remote Participants).
>>
>> Provide plural means – video, voice and text channel, as well as
>> real-time transcription and video streaming / coverage of the meeting.
>>
>> Enable the meeting and remote participation through interactive
>> presentations access through RP.
>>
>> Due to limitation of sufficient funds availability for direct
>> participation, it is crucially required for a common Remote
>> participants as well as for a MAG members.
>>
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           Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita,
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