If you are not able to attend the Fourteenth IGF meeting in Berlin, Germany, you can follow it remotely! Online participation, and specifically the hubs structure, have been successful in previous IGFs. This time again you can follow the discussions from home or office; watch the webcast of the event; follow real-time closed captioning; and participate live. You can register as an individual online participant. Or you can also expand the discussions and organize an IGF HUB in your city!
Online participants/Remote hubs will be able to interact with the meeting by asking for the floor when the panel moderator opens it for questions from the audience, and sending text questions and/or video/audio interventions by using the online participation platform.
Hubs are local meetings that take place in parallel with the IGF. People can watch the webcast of IGF sessions together and send interventions (via text, audio or video) that can be answered by panelists in IGF. In addition, hub organizers can hold debates to discuss the themes introduced at the IGF from their local perspective. Several training sessions for Remote Panelists and Remote Hubs were programmed to be held during November 2019.
There are several advantages in creating a hub:
How to organize a hub? The requirements are very simple:
Stakeholders interested in organizing a remote hub were invited to register online before 25 October 2019 with the following information:
Country / City
Institution hosting the hub.
Possible area(s) of interest.
Number of expected participants within the hub.
Planned pre-meeting activities.
Hub Coordinator.
Contact email.
Hub Technical coordinator (IT).
Technical coordinator contact email.
Please note that the local hub and technical coordinators have to be present at the hub site.
The list of registered remote hubs is available.
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