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

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

Hi Judith

Indeed, it is great work and should always be looked into

http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/documents/dynamic-coalitions/dynamic-coalition-on-accessibility-and-disability/545-igf-2015-dcad-accessibility-guidelines/file

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Judith Hellerstein
<judith at jhellerstein.com> wrote:
> 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
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>
> 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
>>
>>
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