[governance] Draft IGC short Statement on remote participation
Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 14:34:57 EST 2012
Thanks Izumi, in that case if you could change "necessity" to "reality" in
the first sentence, I would be grateful.
Thanks.
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org> wrote:
> 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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