ICANN Consultation at HK: The Future of the Internet's Naming Systems (ISOC-HK) 24 July

[Konstantinos Komaitis]

Dear Hong,

In London, remote participation worked quite well but not in its full
capacity. If I remember correctly, there have been a couple of occasions
where the ICANN staff asked the panel questions from remote participants
(and at least in one of them it was simply done simply because there were no
questions from the floor), but ­ in my opinion at least ­ these questions
were not given as much attention as the ones posed live. What Kathy is
saying is correct. Your voice will be very valuable in the meeting and I
hope you get the chance to speak remotely ­ it will demonstrate to the panel
that people are willing to speak out loud (even if they are not physically
present at the meetings) against this report.

Many thanks for this and please let us know if we can help in any way.

Best
Konstantinos

On 17/07/2009 13:05, "Kathy Kleiman" <Kathy at KathyKleiman.com> wrote:

> Hi Hong,
> I hope many Asian Internet user group participate at the HK meeting! Re:
> remote participation, so far, it has worked at both NYC and London -- but
> mostly for listening.
> 
> We have not found that remote participation meant being able to speak remotely
> -- so far people could not actually add their own comments and voice to the
> proceeding. It was more an online chat room -- valuable for its dialogue, but
> with only a few questions from the chatroom shared with us (in the live room)
> at the very end via ICANN staff.
> 
> **Please ask if you can give a short speech to the live room if you
> participate in the remote room -- please ask if your voice can actually be
> heard by those assembled. ** Yours is an important voice, and it will be a
> great precedent!
> Best,
> Kathy
>> 
>> I will encourage more Asian Internet user groups to participate the HK
>> meeting, not only because they are in the same or close time zones but
>> because their voices are hardly heard at ICANN. I'm now checking with ISOC
>> Hong Kong to see if I can participate remotely.
>>  
>> Hong
>>  

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University of Strathclyde,
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