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The IGF in Sharm-El-Sheikh is approaching fast. Some of us will travel there. Others will not. But staying in your home city does not mean that it is not possible to follow the debates. There will be channels for remote participation. People can follow the discussions from home, watching the webcast of the event and participating in chat. But it is also possible to organize IGF hubs.

What are the Hubs?

The hubs are local meetings that take place in parallel with the IGF. P… Continue

I forward an invitation from the IGF Secretariat.
As you know the next Open Consultations will take place on 16 and 17/09, in Geneva.
The Secretariat will be testing the webcast of the Open Consultations tomorrow (Wednesday, Sep. 09) throughout the day. They would like as many people as possible to connect at the same time, 13:00 GMT (15:00 Geneva time), so they will be able to test the robustness of the system.

The link is: http://www.ebu.ch/en/tools/webcam/

Note: installation of Real… Continue

In a very interesting interview granted to the International Relations and Security Network, John Abell of Wired Magazine makes an analysis of the impact of the social media (especially of Twitter) in politics and in social mobilization. The cases of Iran and of Moldova are commented. He also speaks about the role of social networks in president Obama's campaign and in his administration.

The audio of the interview can be accessed… Continue

I believe that one of the most important aspects of short capacity building courses is to give us insights and to stimulate our curiosity to develop further reseraches on the topics that interest us the most.

As we are supposed to send the organizers of the South SSIG personal reports about the lectures, I thought that it could be a good idea to share them here, so they can benefit all the community and maybe provoke more curiosity :)

This report is the result of my personal notes and may not… Continue

We are pleased to let you know that the report about remote participation in the IGF Hyderabad is now available online: http://www.igfremote.org/ReportRPIGF-final.pdf.

This report was written by the Remote Participation Working Group, in collaboration with Dimdim. Our aim is to help to strengthen remote participation, as a way to include on the IGF process people that otherwise would not be able to take part on this relevant debate.

The report details the experience of local IGF hubs, which wa… Continue