[technology taskforce] Youtube streaming

[Maureen Hilyard]

Welcome to my world.. thats the speed I normally get.


On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 7:14 AM Jonathan Zuck <JZuck at innovatorsnetwork.org>
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> Until today my advocacy for Youtube streaming was based largely on
> research and supposition but my wife and I are currently staying in an
> AirBnB in Tucson with incredibly slow internet:
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> So slow, in fact, that I’m having difficulties maintaining Zoom calls
> which never happens for me. I’m blessed to live in areas in DC and LA where
> internet speeds are fast!  Last night we attempted to participate in a
> virtual ritual for  Dia de Los Muertos that took place over Zoom and we
> simply were unable to maintain the connection. Luckily, the event was
> simultaneously streamed to Youtube which we were able to watch just fine,
> albeit at a lower resolution than normal. I’ve heard a rumor that the
> meeting staff didn’t find much difference between the Zoom bandwidth
> consumption and the Youtube consumption but I’m here to tell you
> definitively, the difference can be staggering.  It’s possible that video
> use on the plenaries are sharply limited so as to minimize bandwidth usage
> but that’s NOT the direction we want our meetings to go. We want MORE video
> participation in our virtual meetings, not less.
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> I say this all to say that regardless of the reports we receive from the
> meetings team, we need to keep pushing for more widespread  streaming to
> Youtube of both ICANN meetings and our capacity building webinars.
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> Jonathan Zuck *|*  Executive Director  *|*  Innovators Network
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> jzuck at innovatorsnetwork.org | O 202.420.7497 | S jvzuck |
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