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
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> 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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> Hong Xue, Ph.D.
> Professor of Law
> Director of Institute for the Internet Policy & Law
> Beijing Normal University
> 19 Xin Jie Kou Wai Street
> Beijing 100875 China
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> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Joly MacFie <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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>     According to my research HK is 12 hours ahead of USA EST - so this
>     will start at 9pm July 23 for us here on the East Coast.
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>     Good news for us night owls!
>
>     joly
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>     On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Rebecca MacKinnon
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>         FYI here's the event announcement from Hong Kong.
>         Best,
>         Rebecca
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