[governance] IGF Cancelled

[Deirdre Williams]

Fair enough.
Perhaps we could create a large virtual corridor?? To accommodate all of
the stakeholders in the world???
But I can't think of a way to get around the time differences :-)


On 26 July 2013 12:02, Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

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> 11:50:22 on Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com>
> writes
>
>  I don't see that having the meeting online would necessarily preclude the
>> attendance of governments
>>
>
> Most of them are not used to working that way. They attend physical
> meetings. Remember that the important things happen in the corridors, not
> in the 5% of sessions you've picked somewhat at random to be in the room
> for.
>
> They could attend an online meeting, but it's almost certain that they
> won't have the tools, or the time off their day-job. While the southern
> hemisphere is important, the Bali meeting would be taking place mainly
> while both Europe and North America are asleep.
> --
> Roland Perry
>
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