RE: [ga] Draft of Bylaws Recommendation concerning the General Assembly

["Roberto Gaetano" <ga_chair@hotmail.com>]

Ben Edelman wrote:
>
>Joanna Lane wrote:
>
> > ...
> > I'd like to see the wording strengthened to give online
> > participants equal rights to participate and vote.
>
>I'd appreciate some guidance from the folks on the list re what specific
>steps to take to give additional influence to online participants.  To 
>date,
>I generally advise the chair of a session (Chair of the GA, Chair of the
>Names Council, or Chairman of the Board of ICANN) that "in the past, a
>successful way of recognizing remote participants has been to take two
>questions from the in-room microphone, then one from remote participants."
>
>Indeed, this often works well, and when we establish such a rhythm, we are
>most successful (in my estimation, and I think the archives reflect this) 
>at
>recognizing remote participants.


I would like to take full responsibility of what happened in MdR in relation 
to the remote comments, and apologise.

It has been always my intention to take remote comments, and I believe that 
this co-ordination between Ben (and all the Berkman folks) and the Chair did 
work well in Cairo and in Yokohama.
I am sure that Ben tried to call my attention to the remote contributions, 
including votes, but the development of the events on site caught all my 
attention, not leaving any left for the communication from the Berkman crew. 
I apologise again.

Maybe the only modification is to authorize the Berkman people to make more 
active signs and catch the attention of the Chair.

Roberto


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