[governance] Draft IGC short Statement on remote participation

[Deirdre Williams]

You timed your intervention beautifully
Deirdre

On 16 February 2012 12:09, Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org> wrote:

> This is close to what I just said.
>
> Note I added Executive Coordinator and MAG renewal thing at the bottom.
>
> izumi
>
> ----
> IGC Statement on Remote Participation
> Feb 15, 2012
>
> 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 opened to
> observers both in the room and also in remote places.
>
> 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, especially mindful of the
> limitation of sufficient funding availability for direct participation
> we are facing now.
>
> There were some problems with video feeds. There was not a clear
> procedure that would encourage remote participants to intervene. We
> regret that some 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 and making proper settings.
>
> We urge MAG and IGF secretariat and also 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 Remote Participation.
>
> ---
>
> Like European Commission and European Union, IGC is also very
> concenred on the issue of Executive Secretariat appointment – delaying
> this makes the good organizational works of IGFvery difficult.
>
> Could you, Chiar and DESA tell us when you appoint the new MAG
> members? Given a lot of work to come, we like to work together without
> much delay.
>
>
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