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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Beijing Normal University
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Beijing 100875 China

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Joly MacFie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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.

Good news for us night owls!

joly

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Rebecca MacKinnon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

FYI here's the event announcement from Hong Kong.
Best,

Rebecca

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