[At-Large] WEBCAST TUE-FRI: South School on Internet Governance 2016 #SSIGOAS

[Jason Hynds]

I'm with Vanda on this.

I think that the location also suits the demographic of the 
participants. However, with respect to opportunity, travel time and cost:

  * Events such as like this have to be promoted more and the remote
    participation options be more timely available (in spite of any
    perceived risk to physical attendance), especially with webcast
    archiving such as happens when ISOC / ISOC NY are tuned in and involved.

Due to Joly's post and magic, anyone, anywhere can be a part of the 
South School on Internet Governance (SSIG). Of course, the notice came 
the same day it started... not so hot for planning one's schedule, but 
hey Joly archives!

Specific to some Caribbean territories, US airports are our exchange 
point for reaching many Latin America destinations, and even some other 
Caribbean destinations. Thus US based events tend to be a lot more 
accessible and likely affordable.

Despite that it, would be lovely to have LAC specific locations for the 
meetings. Clearly as it evolved SSIG has been doing that. I think they 
have done a great job to build up to this their 8th event with such a 
strong list of topics and presenters and I'm sure that they will evolve 
to greater things. Maybe the important questions are:

 1. How can I, you, we assist SSIG more?
 2. How to bring a future SSIG to our territory?
 3. How to bring our territory (with respect to participants) to a
    future SSIG?
 4. How to we continue to let the power of the Internet end the tyranny
    of travel, geography in participating in SSIG?

*DISCLOSURE:* I'm not affiliated with SSIG but I'm running a remote hub 
for it from Barbados. I think it is a great event and from the time I 
noticed it I wanted to expand the reach of the agenda to my country folk 
(whoever chooses to turn up).

Regards,

Jason Hynds


On 3/29/2016 11:03 PM, Vanda Scartezini wrote:
> Guess is important to understand the sponsorship came from the regional organization and the headquarter is there in DC . All other school have been in different LAC countries . Relevant is people from our region could attend the governance school which is the good result
> In time: I have no connection with the school
>
> Vanda Scartezini
> Sent from my iPhone
> Sorry for typos
>
>> On 29 de mar de 2016, at 23:58, Holly Raiche <h.raiche at internode.on.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have to agree with the question - the location of the money should be irrelevant.  It should be about where the need is - and where people who can’t afford the travel time and cost can learn.
>> On 30 Mar 2016, at 12:40 pm, John R. Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Am I the only one who is puzzled by the location in DC for a course targeting the LAC region?
>>> Not really.  Twice a year I teach a day at the US Telecommunications Training Institute in DC to a bunch of low level technocrats from developing countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.  They come for a while, it's half course and half junket.  DC is where the money is.
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