[governance] Netmundial - remote participation

[Garth Graham]

I do share your concern, and can offer an opinion as to why the hubs method of participation was chosen.  I just completed a fast scan of the meaning of stakeholder implicit in the NETmundial document and posted it as a “whole page” comment to that introduction page.  I found that stakeholders are not anyone who self-identifies as such. They are qualified into collective categories of organizations that are then “represented.”  It would be consistent with that implicit assumption to aggregate individuals into “hubs” (or as ICANN does, into internal “communities”).  But it’s not good “Internet” if the choice to connect doesn’t rest at the level of the individual.

GG

On 2014-04-19, at 6:52 AM, Deirdre Williams wrote:

> The apparent limitations on remote participation for this meeting are of great concern at least to me.
> I have added this comment:
> The absence of a truly open remote participation for this meeting is of great concern. The lack of something like Webex, or whichever system is used by ICANN for all of its public meetings, automatically limits the participation of the majority of the largest stakeholder group named by this document, the users.
> to paragraph 1 of the introduction http://document.netmundial.br/introduction/
> Does anyone share this concern?


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