Re: [egov] Groups - London Oasis E-gov conference added

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

I concur.

Rex

At 10:09 AM -0700 8/30/05, jon.bosak@sun.com wrote:
>[h.j.m.burg@minfin.nl:]
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>| SUMMARY:London Oasis E-gov conference
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>| DESCRIPTION:The conference is planned after the OASIS adoption
>| forum in The Russel Hotel London. Information about the adoption
>| forum on the OASIS website. The forum is not for free the TC
>| conference is free of charge.  On TC face to face meetings no
>| dial inn facilities will be present anymore.  OASIS members who
>| plan to come please register via an e-mail to the TC chair. The
>| meeting room has a fixed capacity. The reserve the right room it
>| is nessesary that registration is done as soon as possible but no
>| later than september 30, 2005
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>I'm somewhat taken aback at the decision to disallow dial-ins at
>egov meetings.  I am well aware (believe me!) of the cost and
>logistical difficulties of setting up telephone access to TC
>meetings, and even more aware of the difficulty of hearing
>anything from a remote location; at best, it's possible to hear
>only half the people physically present at the meeting, and often
>it's a lot worse than that.  Few people will attempt to overcome
>these difficulties and dial in, and absent visual cues, it's often
>hard for remote callers to participate effectively.
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>Having said all that, however, the fact remains that holding egov
>meetings without phone access means that attendance will be
>limited to people with generous travel budgets, i.e., some
>government employees and some large vendors.  As a citizen, I
>don't much like the thought of my government employees determining
>public IT policy in meetings dominated by large vendors.  And I
>think that restricting meetings to attendance in person positions
>the TC very poorly to cope with travel costs that will be
>undergoing drastic increases over the next couple of years due to
>the increasing cost of fuel.  We should be working to overcome the
>obstacles presented by remote participation, not simply giving up
>on it.
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>Jon
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