[governance] Remote participation

[David Cake]

This is a serious issue. We strongly need to encourage and expand remote participation, not decrease it.

Remote participation in the form of webcasts and assigned remote participation people to ask questions on behalf of remote participants is a bare minimum. Improving remote participation by whatever means -  mechanisms such as properly staffed remote hubs, screens so that remote participant comments are visible to those in the room, enabling telepresence panellist participation, etc spring to mind -  should be the what we are aiming for, not just maintaining the minimal levels of participation.

While multi-stakeholder processes may be much more open than those gatekeepered by governments, they will remain the province of a relatively small elite unless we can ensure that physical travel is not a necessity for participation. I think we currently do this OK for working group style processes, we don’t do it at all well for higher level processes.

Regards

David

> On 21 Apr 2015, at 8:04 am, Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Colleagues,
> During the discussion of recent internet governance related meetings I don't remember seeing any comments about the steady erosion of remote participation or even webcasts.
> Considering the area being discussed by these meetings this seems to me to be a very serious loss.
> How do others feel?
> Deirdre
> 
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