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

[Arsène Tungali]

Hi everyone,

I took some time and read comments under this thread, thanks for your contributions everyone. 

We have a lot of historical background which should help us move forward in improving the remote participation at the IGF.

So, what's next? How do we go for this?

Do we continue on what had previously been done? If yes, we need to agree on which one to consider among all the options we have. 

Do we need to create a specific DC for this? If yes, then this may bring at one place all those who are passionate about this and those who have worked on it in the past.

Do we stick on the DC on Accessibility? If yes, then we will need to strenghen the work they have been up to so far and emphasis more on the remote participation aspect of their general work on accessibility.

Any thoughts?

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> On Dec 18, 2016, at 10:11 PM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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