Re: (Fwd) Re: [ga] GA/DNSO Funding Issues

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

L Gallegos wrote:

> On 26 Aug 2001, at 11:23, Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales wrote:
>
> IMO, it would be just wonderful if governments and other
> organizations could and would provide better infrastructure to users
> and other stakeholders so that literally anyone who is interested
> could participate in webcast meetings.  However, I would not go as
> far
> as to expect that ICANN is the means for this provision.

There may be a "model" for that sort of thing.  I'm on a service
called OregonVOS.net, which is run by the State of Oregon
(through a third party vendor), and it was put together not for
reasons of people lacking funds but rather because Oregon is
a big, wild and wooly state, and it has isolated communities that
are lucky even to have a phone line, let alone an ISP.  When
"this Internet thing" started looking serious, the state put together
both a central server and a system whereby there are local dial-in
numbers throughout Oregon at practically every wide spot in the
road. (I myself signed on with them because of those local dial-in
numbers -- I'd been popping out of the Portland area to both
Newport and Lincoln City, and using the local dial-in numbers in
all three places -- seamless internet access, so to speak!)

Anyway, if simple "access" is the issue, and in many other places
in the world it certainly is, that is one way to do it.  (How it was
done in terms of hardware, etc., I have no idea.)

(Relative to the single paragraph of Leah's that I retained above,
I speak now not of webcasts as such but indeed any access at all,
which might be the biggest problem of them all.  This is a "digital
divide" kind of thing, methinks.)

Bill Lovell
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The URLs for Best Practices:
DNSO Citation:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/gaindex.html
(Under "Other Information Documents"; "August 2001:
Proposal for Best Practices for the DNSO GA." This
page also includes much else about the DNSO.)
Part I:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BestPractices.html
Part II:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-flowchart.pdf
(Access to the .pdf file requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader,
available for free down load at
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.)
Part III:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-PartIII.html


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