New!
Do you want to organize a local IGF hub?
The registration process is now open!
Visit the IGF Website and check
the Remote Participation section
Hubs already approved:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
São Paulo, Brazil
Pune, India
Lahore, Pakistan
Barcelona, Spain
About the Remote Participation Working Group
We are a small group of interested IGF participants, who has joined together with the common concern to foster the possibility of more complete remote attendance at the upcoming IGF in Hyderabad, 2008. Our idea is to help to provide a service that will benefit the people who are unable to attend the IGF, which means that our work is based on a very practical approach.
We have studied remote participation initiatives put forth in other meetings and we decided to propose the creation of local IGF hubs (Watch our Statement presented in the Open Consultations). This proposal has been endorsed by the IGF Secretariat.
The hubs will be local meetings, which will exhibit the webcast of the IGF. People in the hubs will also be able to interact with the IGF, using Dimdim, a platform which is partly developed in Hyderabad. These local meetings will also hold panels and roundtables, to discuss the themes of the IGF from a local perspective.
We would like to invite all the IG Community to participate on this effort.