Remote Participation

Workshop Number: 157

Title: Best practices as a way of building capacity - what has actually been done to solve specific problems

The above workshop was held in room no-5, on Thursday 16 Sep 2010, between 11.30 and 13 Vilnius time.

Dr Shoko Mikawa, NTT Communications, Japan, - Remote Moderator
The panel members who are stakeholders influencing the deployment of IPv6 in their country/region/global, shared their experience in contributing towards the deployment of IPv6.

The session was lively, interactive and the panelist clearly identified in their experience what were the major constraints or problems encountered in deploying IPv6. In terms of 'capacity building' on IPv6 what were their contributions, what had the good influence among the community towards solving specific problems, their suggestions etc.,

This workshop session had two remote presentations/panel speakers. Due to some technical hiccups on-site, the two panel speakers couldn't deliver their presentation while can just see the session going. As the technical assist on-site were said to be swamped with request for assistance from many others they couldn't help at this situation. Otherwise, Marilia and team were very helpful, patient and tolerant to all the request made, the remote participation training were excellent and useful, appreciated.

Dr Shoko Mikawa, - Remote Moderator, on-site had already completed the on-line survey form immediately after the above workshop.

A great event! thanks to all.

Cheers

raja kumar, m.
Workshop #157 organizer & contact person.

Dear all

I would like to inform you that Belgrade Remote Participation Hub was organized on Thursday the 16th of September by DiploFoundation and NGO Fractal under the name “Language and Internet”. It was held at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. The event was attended by 20 participants.

Filip Pavlovic, the representative of the NGO Fractal welcomed the attendees and presented the work of Fractal. Arvin Kamberi, in front of DiploFoundation, explained the importance of the IGF and a roll of DiploFoundation in addressing the main issues from Internet Governance process.

The opening statement was made by prof. Ljubisa Rajic, head of the Department for the Scandinavian Languages at the Faculty of Philology who spoke about the new ethics in Serbian language, new language genres and how the linguistics science has been changed under the pressure of new technology imposed terms. Implementing this in teaching on Faculty of Philology is one of the problems that they are encountering. Prof.Rajic emphasized the role of using new language ethics in day to day communication.

Dr. Jovan Kurbalija and Nikola Bozic from DiploFoundation joined the session through a live broadcast from the IGF event in Vilnius. They introduced the audience to the new trends at the IGF. Jovan Kurbalija specifically pointed out the importance of language in diplomacy and Internet. Also he provided an insight to the workshop “Dynamic Coalition on Linguistic Diversity”, in which Belgrade remote Hub took part. Dr Kurbalija pointed out some of the linguistic challenges faced in a defining a very meaning of “Remote Participation” reference.   

Mr. Borko Kovacevic from the Linguistics Department spoke about the necessary Serbian language standardization and the importance of teaching the school children the use of Serbian language on the Internet. From that point the debate focused on local issues.  Characteristics of Serbian language and use of Cyrillic names on Internet, triggered the discussion among Hub attendees almost entirely consisting of students of Philology.  

There were many interesting suggestions and the 3 hour time limit wasn’t enough to address all the questions raised. Therefore prof.Rajic and other participants promised a continuation of public debate on use of Serbian language on Internet.


Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade proved to be a great host to this kind of events.

We had no technical problems whatsoever. Link was great and an experiences from the past remote participation proved to be important.


Some photos:

Hello everyone,

I'm Bani Lara from ASTI. With the sponsorship of APNIC, CICT and NCC, we were able to host the local hub for IGF 2010. It was also participated in by several members of ISOC Philippines

http://www.pregi.net/preginet-to-join-the-5th-internet-governance-forum/

This year's local hosting was quite promising, since we were able to attract some of the policy makers in CICT to attend the event and listen to the discussions.

For the first day, we had a very good "debate" with some executives from our telco regulator, NTC

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Telecommunications_Commission_(Philippines)

We discussed and debated on topics such as:

a. Philippines internet penetration rate
b. Cost of access and the cost of devices used to access the internet
c. Means of access (some places in the Philippines do not have reliable electricity)
d. International standards in terms of the definition of broadband access, and if our local telcos/ISPs are adhering to those standards
e. Encourage competition in the ISP business
f. IPv6
g. The thin line between censorship and scarcity of bandwidth
h. etc

The last day was also good, since we "timed" the IGF participation to follow after the meeting of our local policy makers in terms of IPv6 direction in our country. Our country recently came up with its IPv6 policy, and we are working on a more detailed document with regards to its implementing rules and regulation.

http://www.pregi.net/palace-promotes-the-use-of-ipv6/

The remote participation facility was very helpful to developing countries such as ours by giving us the opportunity to voice out our concerns in these international meetings.

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Mabuhay from Manila, Philippines!

Manila hub is well represented  by  various government sectors in the Philippines, and few service providers and non-governmental organizations.  We have only managed to attend the morning main sessions due to the time difference but still received good feedback from participants.

The open discussion on the first day tackles on critical internet resources such as infrastructure, allocation of budget and proper regulatory process from the government. While there has been a great interest on IPv6 and talks on how to keep the ball rolling in terms of awareness, training, and development from yesterday's discussion.  The comment from today is  about the issue of "openness" in the country as there have been cases where providers are forced to block some sites to minimize bandwidth consumption. Apparently, this is commonly happening in developing countries to save costs.

The participants joined sessions according to their point of interest and role in the organization so we have varied number of attendees each day. We have 16 participants on the first day, 10 on the second, and around 7 today. We are expecting a good number of technical people coming for tomorrow's main session.

For the past 2 years, Manila hub has been actively following IGF events. This year's remote participation is the most successful in terms of the number of attendees and discussions' general output.  Many thanks to the great effort of our local host, Advance Science  and Technology Institute (ASTI), and for the support of Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), National Computer Center(NCC), and Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT).

And lastly, we are happy with the good audio/visual room we use where we can clearly hear and watch the video (please see our room set-up from
the attached photo).


Warmest regards
Anna

Dear All, greetings from the Albanian HUB.

Albania HUB took place in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs conference room. It was organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Innovation, Information and Communication Technology (MITIC). This was the first event of this kind in Albania.

The HUB had participants representing different stakeholders, Government ( IT specialists of Ministry of Education and Interior, and the National Agency on Information Technology), Academic staff, NGO( CoE and UNDP), The Data Protection Commissioner, Civil Society etc.

On the first day we attended the welcome session, IGF for newcomers. The facilitator made a presentation of IGF and its issues in the local perspective.  In the afternoon we attended the plenary session were the Deputy Minister of MITIC stressed the role of IGF in Government and Academy.

On the following days IGF was attended by participants interested in joining workshops in accordance with their interest and professional background. We had great interest in Data protection, Child Safety, Teaching IG, best practice from schools, Cybercrime etc.

In its first edition Albanian Hub was attended by 40 people, and we believe we have fulfilled our goal of raising awareness regarding IG issues, and building a network of professionals who will discuss these issues in our local perspective and contribute in improving in their respective fields of competences. We are already working for our National IGF.

Technology was our great ally, and made remote participating to IGF enjoyable and real. Merit must be given to the remote participation group in Vilnius, especially Ginger Marilia and Bernard.

We will continue to consult the materials and transcripts of this meeting in the IGF website.

Last we would like to thank the organizers of IGF 2010 of their great job, and we are looking forward to the next IGF.

Here are some photos of our HUB.

Warm regards,
Elona Taka