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

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

Hi

Thanks for this history. Indeed it teaches us a lot.
With so much knowledge accumulated it would be good to have a more
hands-on approach in the future.

Best

Renata

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:
> On 12/12/16 6:02 pm, Embley, Charity G wrote:
>
> I just wanted to add something on the on-going conversation about remote
> participation.  I'm going out on a limb and assume that the concept of
> remote participation that you all were referring to is in relation to remote
> hubs and how distant participants (who are unable to attend IGF meetings)
> would be able to remotely attend the meetings.  Please correct me if I'm
> mistaken on this assumption.  Anyways, a couple of years ago, Marilia
> Maciel, Raquel Gatto, Rafik D, Ginger P and myself were part of the IGF
> Remote Participation Working Group (If I might have forgotten anybody - my
> apologies) and the goal was to make remote participation accessible.  The
> remote hubs were established and even funded in some countries as an
> outreach initiative.  We do have a Facebook page called IGF Remote
> Participation Working Group. You can search it. The page will kind of give
> you an overview and there are initiatives on remote participation that have
> been established since 2010. It has not been updated since 2011and I still
> get notifications.  But if it is something that you would like to continue
> working on, that should not be a problem, especially if Ginger is also
> taking a lead on it.
>
>
> Even before that there was an Online Collaboration Dynamic Coalition that I
> ran for a while, which hosted the former IGF Community Site back when the
> official IGF website was much worse than it is now.  Before the secretariat
> adopted Sched, it was the only place where you could get a feed of the IGF
> events on your computer or phone, and also hosted mailing lists for DCs and
> some other resources.  Some historical materials about it are here:
> http://bestbits.net/wiki/main/fluid-working-groups/igf-online-collaboration-dynamic-coalition-defunct/.
>
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