Remote
Participation Statistics
ICANN Public Meetings
Melbourne, Australia - March 9-13, 2001
The following statistics
were calculated for informal evaluation of the Melbourne remote participation
efforts.
- 707 distinct non-anonymous
people logged on to the remote participation sites, including 204
on the 11th, 270 on the 12th, and 233 on the 13th, with significant
overlap between days. 350 additional anonymous users logged in, summed
across all days of the meetings.
- 4,421 user-session visits
to the ICANN-Melbourne Registration and Remote Participation pages
(in http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/melbourne) in the one-month
period from March 1 to March 31, surrounding the meetings by approximately
two weeks in each direction. 1,751 views in 1,057 user-sessions of
the Live Webcast page while the meetings were in progress. (But surely
many repeats by same person on different days, therefore counted as
different user-sessions.) 2,905 requests in 1,894 user-sessions for
the main archive page. In total, 124,381 requests in 13,922 user-sessions
were made for Berkman Center ICANN-related content between March 1
and 31.
- 2029 user-sessions resulted
from links on icann.org web pages.
- All RealAudio and RealVideo
servers below capacity at all times. 671 user-sessions accessing the
primary video feed, summed among all days. All WindowsMedia servers
below capacity at all times. 165 user-sessions accessing the primary
Windows Media feed, summed among all days.
- From March 11th to April
11th, the http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/melbourne/archive
Archive main page received 2,905 hits from 1,894 distinct user-sessions.
In that time, 525 distinct user-sessions watched RealVideo archives
of one or more of the Melbourne meetings, averaging requests for about
2.45 distinct video segments per user-session.
- 98 remote comments were
received throughout the three days of meetings. Of those, 11 were
presented (all read in their entirety and attributed in scribe's notes).
- Melbourne remote participants
came primarily from the United States and Australia. Summing over
all three days of public meetings, 267 remote participants self-identified
as North Americans, 137 Australian, 58 European, 54 Asian, 9 South
American, and 2 African. See http://cyber.harvard.edu/icann/melbourne/archive/remoteparticipants-geography.html
for details. This data reinforces prior experience that remote participants
are primarily drawn from North Americans plus residents of countries
in timezones for which the meetings take place during the day.
- A total of 808 people
preregistered to attend the meetings, including 717 planning to attend
in person and 146 interested in participating online. (Some overlap
-- it was possible to indicate interest in receiving relevant announcements
for both physical and remote participation.) Of the 717 planning to
attend in person, 632 were willing to include their names on the list
of meeting attendees (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/melbourne/archive/physpart.html)
while 85 explicitly declined to be listed. Announcement messages about
webcast times and details and about archive availability were sent
to all preregistrants in addition to all actual remote participants.
Finally, another ? participants registered on-site by provding name
their names and contact information; their names are merged into the
public list of meeting attendees linked above.
CONTACT
INFORMATION
For additional
information, please contact:
Ben
Edelman
Berkman
Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
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