[governance] A couple of thoughts for the MAG discussion

[Katitza Rodriguez]

Hi folks,

Someone is in the MAG room can Skype me in? is there a civil society 
Skype group? I'm not in today!

On 2/16/12 1:30 AM, Deirdre Williams wrote:
> Dear Roland,
> I am living testimony to the frustration you speak about - having got 
> up at 4.30 to be ready at 5 for the meeting - I can't find the 
> meeting. :-(
> Can anybody help please?
> Deirdre
>
> On 16 February 2012 04:54, Roland Perry 
> <roland at internetpolicyagency.com 
> <mailto:roland at internetpolicyagency.com>> wrote:
>
>     at 14:32:45 on Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Deirdre Williams
>     <williams.deirdre at gmail.com <mailto:williams.deirdre at gmail.com>>
>     writes
>
>         One of the people 'at' the MAG meeting
>         this morning was i, rushing off to lobby - electronically -
>         as soon as the meeting was finished. So I would incline to the
>         idea that
>         remote participation is fast losing its 'second class' status,
>         and would
>         push hard for the 'right' that remote participants should
>         NEVER be treated
>         as second class, although they often are now.
>
>
>     In order to manage people's expectations, I think there should be
>     a grading system for remote participation.
>
>     For example, is there a live audio feed, a live video feed,
>     transcriptions live or transcriptions archived. Is there an
>     archive of the webcast. Can remote participants have questions
>     read out, or can they speak to the meeting from their remote
>     location. Is there a facility for chat between remote participants.
>
>     I'm not suggesting that all of these options have to be available
>     for every meeting, but when there's an expectation of being able
>     to participate (or indeed as might be the case for today's MAG
>     meeting, to remotely observe, which is slightly different) and it
>     turns out the facility is very limited, it can be frustrating.
>     -- 
>     Roland Perry
>
>
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