About Web Conferencing

Web Conferencing allows participants (either face to face or remotely)  to

Adobe Connect

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The At-Large community uses Adobe Connect meeting rooms during its teleconferences and face to face meetings. Participants can use Adobe Connect to

• instant message each other
• review the meeting agenda and documents
• follow presentations and raise their hands in order to ma e to make comments.

Using this tool effectively is important to anyone wanting to participate in At-Large Working Groups and your RALO.

Install the latest version of  Adobe Flash software

Adobe Connect requires Adobe Flash installed on your PC/Mac. To determine what version of the Flash player you have on your system, visit http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
and to install the latest Flash player go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Windows users should note that the Flash Player in their Microsoft Internet Explorer browser and the one in web browsers like Opera, Mozilla Firefox and Safari are separate installs. You should install and update both versions, by visiting http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ in Internet Explorer and then with your other web browsers.

Assessing Adobe Connect Rooms using mobile devices or tablets

Adobe provides the ability to use Adobe Connect with

• your mobile phone running Apple iOS, Blackberry, or Android
• your tablet such as the iPad, Android tablets or the Blackberry Playbook

in a virtual meeting room over the Internet.

TTF Report on web conferencing

Extract on Web-Conferencing and Adobe Connect issues from report presented at ICANN 60 Abu Dhabi 

Adobe Connect 

ICANN and the At-Large community primarily uses the Adobe Connect solution (Visit http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect/mobile.html to download the appropriate application for your device.

A PDF showing how to use the mobile OS can be found at http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/acm17gsparticipants/^{Image Removed}

In addition, each RALO has an Adobe Connect room available for use by its ALSes (for 
example, to facilitate the ALSes’ individual meetings). These Adobe Connect rooms can 
be found at the following urls:  
AFRALO: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/afraloals/^{Image Removed}
APRALO: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/apraloals/^{Image Removed}
EURALO: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/euraloals/^{Image Removed}
LACRALO: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/lacraloals/^{Image Removed}
NARALO: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/naraloals/^{Image Removed}

Any ALS can use a Adobe Connect room 

In addition, each RALO has an Adobe Connect room available for use by its ALSes (for example, to facilitate the ALSes’ individual meetings). These Adobe Connect rooms can be found at the following urls:  

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) to do its web conferencing. Using this tool effectively is important to anyone wanting to participate in At-Large Working Groups and your Regional At-Large Organisations (RALO) conference calls.

Read more about Adobe Connect 

The TTF is researching plugins for Adobe Connect to further enhance/improve the benefits of conference calls for At-Large.

Alternative Web Conferencing Options

The TTF explored a variety of conferencing solutions when ICANN appeared to be switching to LucidMeetings, a cloud based conferencing solution in mid 2013. The TTF has held several meetings with LucidMeetings  The TTF used LUCID for its WG calls from late 2013 to mid 2014, before returning to Adobe Connect.

Several TTF members has mentioned other tools for consideration for use by At-Large Structures and/or for use by At-Large WGs. The TTF has reviewed several of these conferencing solutions with special purpose calls to test these solutions.

See the Comparison of webconferencing solutions page with the list of conferencing solutions tested so far.