[governance] Towards true remote participation (was Re: Next IGF in Geneva? How about Berlin?)

[Judith Hellerstein]

The DCAD has a complete manual on this and always improving on it so no need to reinvent the wheel

Cheers
Judith

Sent from my iPad
Judith at jhellerstein.com
Skype ID: judithhellerstein

> On Dec 12, 2016, at 1:36 AM, Nadira Alaraj <nadira.araj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Renata,
> 
> I think there was some work lead by Ginger and De on Remote Participation, would be great to capitalise on it.
> 
> And would go for the DC on this issue.
> 
> Thanks
> Nadira
> 
> 
> On 12 Dec 2016 05:19, "Renata Aquino Ribeiro" <raquino at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> It is great to see these ideas, please keep suggestions coming.
> 
> A Best Practices Forum on Remote Participation could be a way to
> discuss these ideas and create recommendations, also referring to the
> previous existing great work by the Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility
> and others.
> 
> How about we think about this for IGF2017? Bianca Ho and I thought
> about this and would be great to hear your thoughts.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Renata
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 07:48:32 -0400
> > Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I suggested we make the technology work for us so -
> >> earlier in the week I was discussing remote participation with
> >> someone and the possibility of a "signup sheet" of some type for each
> >> session was suggested to solve the problem of getting correctly
> >> spelled names and correct affiliation into the transcript. However
> >> this has difficulties for those who prefer anonymity.
> >> The scheduling software which has been used (the circles with
> >> initials or pictures) might be a way to create the "signup sheet" -
> >> with the proviso that if you wish to be anonymous or don't want to
> >> talk you don't sign up?
> >
> > How about instead of a "signup sheet" creating a "list of active
> > participants" for each session, where the "active participants"
> > are those who make an intervention?
> >
> > I'd envision this per-session "list of active participants" to
> > include contact information.
> >
> > When an in-person participant makes an intervention from the floor, the
> > protocol for collecting this contact information could be as simple as
> > giving a business card to the person who passes the microphone around.
> >
> > For panelists and for remote participants, name and contact information
> > is already collected anyway.
> >
> > Just listening to a session should IMO not lead to personal information
> > about that being recorded in any way, and that should IMO be
> > independent of whether you listen by being personally in the workshop
> > room or whether you listen via the Internet.
> >
> > I think it's different when you make an intervention. The IGF is a
> > public policy process and there is a need for transparency also in
> > regard to who says something. This need for transparency is not absolute
> > however. There needs to be room for justified exceptions. For example
> > it must IMO be accepted for human rights NGOs to arrange for anonymous
> > interventions from people in situations where their freedom of speech
> > is not adequately protected. In such cases, the concerned human rights
> > NGO can still provide some form of contact information.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Norbert
> >
> >
> > ____________________________________________________________
> > You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
> >      governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> > To be removed from the list, visit:
> >      http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing
> >
> > For all other list information and functions, see:
> >      http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
> > To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
> >      http://www.igcaucus.org/
> >
> > Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
> >
> 
> 
> ____________________________________________________________
> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>      governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> To be removed from the list, visit:
>      http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing
> 
> For all other list information and functions, see:
>      http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
> To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
>      http://www.igcaucus.org/
> 
> Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
> 
> 
> ____________________________________________________________
> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> To be removed from the list, visit:
>     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing
> 
> For all other list information and functions, see:
>     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
> To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
>     http://www.igcaucus.org/
> 
> Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/governance/attachments/20161212/8c750681/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t