[IGFmaglist] Virtual meeting good ideas

[Carlos Afonso]

I agree, Anriette. The challenge is the "how-to" to do justice to all regions.

fraternal regards

--c.a.

On 17/06/2020 13:25, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
> Dear Jutta and Carlos
>
> If you look at remote participation in IGFs over the years you will see
> that remote participants generally do not participate then the times are
> difficult for them. The Bali IGF in 2013, for example. It was a
> fantastic IGF and had great participation from people in its timezone,
> but very few from people outside of that time zone. At least for the
> morning.
>
> I don't think we should rule out the event running in different time
> zones.. not yet any way.
>
> Anriette
>
>
> *Anriette Esterhuysen*
> Senior advisor on internet governance
> Association for Progressive Communications
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> On 2020/06/17 14:08, Carlos Afonso via Igfmaglist wrote:
>> Agree with Jutta.
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>> On 17/06/2020 07:40, Jutta wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I’m not sure about the 24v hour scheme. I’ve learned from colleagues from around the world taking part in the complete virtual ICANN meetings they adapt their working hours schedule to the time zone the meeting ist held in, just like they must do when they travel to another time zone for f2f meetings.
>>>
>>> Also I think a 24/7 IGF might be too huge a burden for the secretariat and technical staff in doing all the organisational and background work, which is incredible complex
>>>
>>> Eventually like in a f2f meeting we do need a concise and comprehensive programme fore the IGF, not one that tries to cover everything. I think we have already taken a major step in this regard with the outcomes of the working groups on our 4 tracks. Lets see how we get further with this approach in the next days to come.
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>> Jutta
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>>>> Am 17.06.2020 um 11:20 schrieb June Parris <parrisjune51 at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> Good idea to have a 24 hour meeting that participants can join in their time zones, however some things will need to be repeated. Those that involve the MAG and other important issues will still need to take place at a reasonable time.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> June Parris
>>>>
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>>>> From: Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 4:20:25 AM
>>>> To: MAG-public <Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org>
>>>> Subject: [IGFmaglist] Virtual meeting good ideas
>>>>  
>>>> A contribution on scheduling from Carsten Schiefner.
>>>>
>>>> Anriette
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Carsten Schiefner <carsten at schiefner.berlin> Sent: Wednesday, 17
>>>> June, 2020 8:45 AM
>>>> To: Anja Gengo <anja.gengo at un.org>
>>>> Subject: A virtual IGF‘s schedule
>>>>
>>>> Good morning, Anja -
>>>>
>>>> it’s Carsten from Berlin.
>>>>
>>>> One thing that came to my mind wrt. scheduling slots for the upcoming
>>>> vIGF: why not turning a perceived disadvantage into a (maybe...) real
>>>> advantage?
>>>>
>>>> A virtual meeting is first and foremost unbound and detached from any
>>>> physical location.
>>>> So, whenever you schedule a certain meeting it’s always inconvenient for
>>>> somebody, be it super early in the morning or super late in the evening.
>>>>
>>>> So, to equally equally distribute this inconvenience across all
>>>> participants from all parts of the world: why not having the IGF 24
>>>> hours a day? The additional advantage is that its “capacity” would be
>>>> tripled: from (nominal) eight to 24 hours.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Carsten
>>>>
>>>>
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