57 Tutorial for SG & TSAG leadership teams Geneva, 15-16 December 2008 Electronic meetings Increase in use (live, off-line) – Audio-conferences – E-mail or forum based discussion threads – Web-based collaboration ITU-T trial, launched by TSAG in Dec 2007, to evaluate remote participation tools – GoToMeeting: used extensively within ITU for short (>2 hours) meetings, with up to 30 participants – GoToWebinar: used for covering Climate Change symposium in Kyoto, with up to 200 participants over 2 days (archived) – WebEx: one year trial offered by Cisco Systems Important aspects to consider: – All concerned experts be informed about them – Clear beginning and end times/dates – Take time differences into consideration – For live events, keep times short (<3 hours), share the pain
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