Status:
IGF Theme(s) for workshop: Access and Diversity
Main theme question address by workshop: This workshop addresses main session Question 1
Concise description of the proposed workshop:
The workshop will have 5 remote panelists who will give short interventions about the current reality and need of remote participation rather than remote observation, as these ideas and concepts tie in to the basic principles that should underlie remote participation strategies. Each presenter will focus on one of the principles highlighted as an outcome of WS 67 from the IGF 2011 Nairobi, and will include viewpoints of access and disability, remote participation, business, government, capacity building and youth in particular.
After hearing the panelists, participants (remote hubs, remote individuals, and those in the onsite 'remote hub' will discuss the application of the previous principles to the reality we face in implementing them in global meeting strategies. This demonstration of the utility of a completely online workshop will serve as an example for future conferences, and have a concrete output in progress towards a set of remote participation principles as well.
During the discussion, all participants will be encouraged to join in editing (live, online) the second iteration of the principles document. The workshop will result in a second iteration of Remote Participation principles, which will then be circulated for further comment. The 'Reality' of remote participation will be demonstrated in this wholly remote panel, with a 'remote hub' at the meeting venue. The 'Principles' will be discussed and improved for presentation and discussion as an outcome of the panel.
Background Paper:
Name of the organiser(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups:
- DiploFoundation (academia, Malta, Belgrade, Geneva, female)
- Remote Participation Working Group (civil society, Venezuela, Brazil, female)
- Dynamic Coalition for Access and Disability (civil society, ITU, mixed, male)
- Caribbean Telecommunications Union (governments, SIDS, Caribbean, male)
Have you, or any of your co-organisers, organised an IGF workshop before?: Yes
Please provide link(s) to workshop(s) or report(s):
67. E-participation Principles
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshops2011View&wspid=67#report
126. Remote participation in the IGF and in regional internet governance meetings
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2010View&wspid=126
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
- Fernando Botelho, Dynamic Coalition on Access and Diversity representative (male)
- Raquel Gatto, Remote participation working group representative (female)
- Ginger Paque, (moderator / remote moderator) DiploFoundation representative (female)
- Rodney Taylor, Caribbean Telecommunications Union representative (male)
- Unknown, Southern Pacific Community (female)
- Youth representative (unknown)
Name of Remote Moderator(s):
Ginger Paque