Hi Kathy, On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Kathy Kleiman <[log in to unmask]>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. > I noticed this too, and raised the point when Kieren asked (online) how they could improve the experience. They need to integrate the online participation more effectively. > **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! > Ideally, NCUC has someone in the meeting meatspace who is monitoring the chat, intervenes when necessary, and either reads the question/statement at the mic or cues the online person to read it. You can't really rely on a staffer to know when to raise specific points, etc. Cheers, Brenden > 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 > > -- > 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 > > > 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 >>> >> -- >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast >> WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com >> http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > > > > >