[Chapter-delegates] ISOC's involvement at ITU Telecom World 2009

Sat Oct 10 03:12:32 PDT 2009

Hi, Bill.

It sounds as if that should be the last Telecom World! After all, why
should vendors wait for October, in Geneva, to show what they make?
The telecom services are not like cars; they need no expo to be
delivered. I can't  imagine twitter or facebook being released at such
an event.
On the other hand, only 6000 people attending, that's, what, about
1200 / day? You can get more than that on an average day at McDonalds
in a remote area... :-)

Do you have statistics how many people were watching the presentations
remotely, and how many were in the room?

Veni

On 10/10/09, Bill Graham <graham at isoc.org> wrote:
> a few comments
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Alejandro Pisanty" <apisan at servidor.unam.mx>
> Sent: Friday, October 9, 2009 11:10pm
> To: "Gerard Ross" <ross at isoc.org>
> Cc: "ISOC Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>, "ISOC
> Extended Board" <isoc-ext-board at elists.isoc.org>
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] [Isoc-ext-board] ISOC's involvement at ITU
> Telecom World 2009
>
> Hi Gerard, others who were in charge and/or attended ITU Telecom World
> 2009:
>
> 1. I've heard that the event was a major flop. What does this really mean?
>
> <Primarily that attendance was  MUCH less than predicted.  Registration was
> about 15% of the 40,000 advertised.  But also the trade show failed to
> attract the global firms or customers, so the aisles were not exactly full.
>
> Only lack of attendance? A failure of the ITU to deliver its message(s)?
>
> The forum itself was reasonably good.  ITU had a fair range of speakers, and
> frankly the ISOC speakers <Lynn, Karen) made good points and attracted good
> interaction.  ISOC was  not alone on panels in supporting the Internet.  ITU
> on the other hand hosted a CTO summit which we were not informed of even as
> sector members.  They also tried to have a Ministers-only discussion of the
> future of the  Iinternet and to produce a statement from it.  Fortunately,
> and by accident, the Canadian delegation  found out about it and intervened
> to remind them that only Member States can produce declarations from the
> ITU, so that fell flat.  They also hosted a meeting on financing ICT for D,
> but I have not had a report from that.
>
> 2. Does anyone have a (self- or third-party or any other) assessment of
> how ISOC and the Internet fared altogether?
>
> my personal assessment is that we did well.  we were very prominently
> placed, and had good flow-by traffic.  We met lots of interested people, at
> quite high levels, and had a lot of good side meetings.  While traffic was
> not huge, the people we attracted were people we wanted to reach.  <I cant
> say how the other organizations feel yet - we need to do a post-mortem.
>
> What was not only the
> cost-benefit but the risk-cost-benefit for ISOC?
>
> my assessment is that both were positive.  we needed to be in the forum, and
> the booth worked out well.  Presumably we will be doing a review in the near
> future and will let you know.  And if we do something like this again (not a
> given) we will be in contact earlier in the planning phase.
>
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> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Gerard Ross wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:14:31 +0200
>> From: Gerard Ross <ross at isoc.org>
>> To: ISOC Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>,
>>     ISOC Extended Board <isoc-ext-board at elists.isoc.org>
>> Subject: [Isoc-ext-board] ISOC's involvement at ITU Telecom World 2009
>>
>> Dear colleagues
>>
>> The Internet Society has a strong presence at the ITU Telecom World 2009
>> in
>> Geneva this week.
>>
>> On Thursday 8 October, both Lynn St. Amour and Karen Rose will be speaking
>> on
>> panels in the main Telecom World Forum. The ITU is providing a live web
>> cast
>> of proceedings here:
>>
>>  http://www.itutelecomtv.com/
>>
>> Lynn St.Amour will speak on the Future Internet Panel from 11:00 - 12:30
>> (UTC
>> +2).
>>
>> Karen Rose will speak on the panel "Rethinking regulation in emerging
>> markets" from 09:00 - 10:30 (UTC +2).
>>
>> Also, at the Youth Forum today, ISOC announced the launch of the Next
>> Generation Leaders programme. A more detailed news release about this
>> programme will be circulated tomorrow, but for now, please see:
>>
>>  http://www.isoc.org/leaders
>>
>> For more details on the Internet Society's involvement in Telecom World
>> 2009,
>> see:
>>
>>  http://www.isoc.org/itu-tw2009
>>
>> Kind regards
>> - Gerard
>>
>> --
>> Gerard Ross
>> Senior Manager, Outreach and Coordinated Communication
>> Internet Society
>> Email: ross at isoc.org
>>
>>
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