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<div>Basically with Volker. There’s value in a face-to-face meeting, but ICANN can still do more to facilitate remote participation, especially for meetings (like the one upcoming) where attendance is projected to be lower. And expanded use of remote hubs
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<div>Thanks-</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Volker Greimann <<a href="mailto:vgreimann@key-systems.net">vgreimann@key-systems.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, February 8, 2016 at 4:37 <br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"Austin, Donna" <<a href="mailto:Donna.Austin@neustar.biz">Donna.Austin@neustar.biz</a>>, James Bladel <<a href="mailto:jbladel@godaddy.com">jbladel@godaddy.com</a>>, GNSO Council List <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [council] RE: [Soac-infoalert] ICANN56 to be Relocated<br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Hi Donna, <br>
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I agree that ICANN should improve their capacity for virtual participation, however I feel that ultimately the ability to meet face to face and discuss on the side of the events is very important to a smooth operation of the meeting and cannot completely be
replaced by remote participation. But having better virtual participation options as a choice would be helpful and a great improvement over the sometimes spotty phone bridge.
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Holographic representation would be nice ;-)<br>
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Best,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 06.02.2016 um 00:29 schrieb Austin, Donna:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Maybe it’s time for ICANN to experiment with a full virtual meeting, connecting hubs around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 5 February 2016 3:04 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [council] Fwd: [Soac-infoalert] ICANN56 to be Relocated<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the heads up Phil. Here's the statement from ICANN. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">J. <br>
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Sent via iPhone. Blame Siri. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Date:</b> February 5, 2016 at 16:53:47 CST<br>
<b>To:</b> "<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org">soac-infoalert@icann.org</a>" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org">soac-infoalert@icann.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>[Soac-infoalert] ICANN56 to be Relocated</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please see the recent announcement regarding ICANN 56: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">**<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__meetings.icann.org_en&d=CwMFAg&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=4A3LwUUER9_CePZ11QJsr56eryGQiPHEqv4TL7JH87w&m=t_Le9tU2oBr-3_16ZuoOPT1uPb7CK8w2w1q1Z6PtWiE&s=Du8oa0idNrz00z2hI4cvuhlZkS9VjQy3wezy4zxL6yg&e="><span style="color:#954F72"></span></a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meetings.icann.org/en">https://meetings.icann.org/en</a></span>/<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ICANN56 to be Relocated</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ICANN56, scheduled to be held in Panama in June 2016, will be moved to another location due to the severity of the Zika Virus outbreak in the Latin America region. A search is currently underway
to identify an alternate location where the Zika Virus is not a concern. We look forward to returning to Panama for a future ICANN Meeting.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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