[technology taskforce] Real Time Captioning-Pilot Study has been funded

[Glenn McKnight]

This is  great news and Judith has done a great job promoting this logical
 service to the community
Glenn

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On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <chaitanyabd at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Congratulations Judith!!! This really is good news.
>
> Best,
>
> *Chaitanya Dhareshwar*
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> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Judith Hellerstein <
> judith at jhellerstein.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Technology Task Force Working Group Members,
>>
>> I wanted to report the great news that the Special Budget Request that I
>> put in has been approved and funded by the ICANN Board. This is really
>> great news!!  While they did not give us everything we asked for. We had
>> requested a one year pilot with a review after 6 months. Instead the board
>> approved a 6 month pilot with a review after 3 months to determine
>> viability. The goal will be at least three calls/meetings per month to
>> determine viability.
>>
>> The Pilot will begin October 2015. Also good news is that ICANN has
>> recognized that this is not just an ALAC need but a core need for all. It
>> is great that ICANN has recognized the value of captioning technology
>> during meeting support efforts. I will be working with Heidi Ulrich and
>> other staff to figure out how to structure the pilot. Those who are
>> interested in working on creating the pilot, please feel free to email me.
>>
>> When I have more information I will send another email out but just
>> wanted to let everyone know this great news.
>>
>> Best,
>> Judith
>>
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