Re: [alac] In Defense Of Face To Face

[Esther Dyson <edyson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hope so! I was really sorry to miss the meeting in Rio, for example...

Esther



At 04:41 PM 4/9/2003, Pierre Dandjinou wrote:
> I was wondering whether anyone read this; so Esther, are we going to have
> more and more face to face meetings??
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> Pierre
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> [4] In Defense Of Face To Face
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> How can an individual be effective? It's definitely not through online
> discussions, which has been suggested as a possible way to get the public
> more involved in ICANN, as well as in other issues. As useful as those
> discussions can be for the participants, they rarely seem to lead to
> consensus for anything beyond very small, cohesive groups. I have never
> seen anyone in an online discussion say: "Oh, your trenchant comment has
> changed my mind."...
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> By Esther Dyson
> http://www.circleid.com/articles/2587.asp
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