[Debatewise RRT] Re: Copenhagen conference global youth panel moderation
- From: Harriet Lowe <tehexile@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: debatewiserrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 18:22:24 +0000
I would still like to be involved! Bearing in mind i will not be free all
day every day any more as i have job interviews. Tomorrow I will be free at
night.
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Alex Helling <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
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> I am writing to check who is willing to take part as a moderator in the
> debates we are running on the Copenhagen conference on climate change.
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> I have gone back through the emails sent back through the mailing list
> about who wishes to help with moderating our global youth panel debates that
> are starting tomorrow. At the moment on that list I have:
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> Amie Tsang
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> Mwenehu Fondo
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> Michael Archer – possibly
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> Kim Redgrave – possibly
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> Timothy Johnson – possibly
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> Jasmin Ademovic
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> Harriet Lowe – possibly
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> Sarah Lynch
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> Gary Cocker
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> Vee Moda – possibly
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> If there is anyone else wanting to take part please email us and can those
> who I have down as possible please give a definite yes or no.
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> The details: As will all our debates this is taking place online, in this
> case on google wave so I need you to reply asap so that we can give you a
> google wave invite. We mostly need the moderators to do the usual kind of
> things, delete any bad language and calm things down if things get personal.
> Mostly I think the job will involve editing the main point so that it
> reflects the discussion that has gone on below it. Think of this as editing
> the point of a Debatewise debate if there has been a lot of discussion on
> ‘join the debate’ and you then make the point so that that discussion is
> reduced and summarised on the point.
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> Time required: well as much as possible! However as with all our requests
> this is purely voluntary so it is really as much as you can spare. Our
> number of google wave invites are restricted so we would like to avoid you
> applying and then doing nothing. About an hour or two a day would be good
> (does not need to be evenly spread). The debates themselves will be going on
> all the time so when you can do the moderating does not matter.
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> So please get back to us,
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> Regards,
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> Alex
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> http://debatewise.org/cop-15
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> I have added the original email from David below.
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> Hi,
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> As those who got the newsletter will know, we are running a big initiative
> around the COP15 event. We’re forming a panel of 1,000 young people from
> 100 different countries and will ask them to debate events that happen
> during and after the conference itself. The idea is to provide a sense of
> what young people around the world think of the decisions made there.
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> This project has really taken off and there are two developments I’d like
> to tell you about. The first is that The Independent will be partnering
> with us, covering the debates, trying to get leading climate change experts
> to provide commentary and hopefully getting opinion pieces as a result.
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> Secondly, Google have given us 1,000 invites for their game-changing new
> technology Google Wave. Wave takes online collaboration to a whole new
> level; we’ll run all the debates in Wave and will publish them to Debatewise
> for others to read.
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> This is a very big deal, and not only because invites for Wave were being
> sold on eBay for £100 each. But also because we’re providing Google with
> one of the first real-world, large-scale, focussed demonstrations of the
> collaboration benefits Wave provides.
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> I’m telling you this partly because being on the Rapid Response team means
> you get to hear this kind of stuff first. Secondly to ask if you want to be
> involved.
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> We’re looking for people to help moderate the debates in Wave. You’ll need
> to have quite a lot of spare time between 7th – 18th December, will be
> interested in the environment and will be willing to help steer people in
> the right direction. You’ll obviously get a Wave invite and lots of good
> karma to boot.
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> Questions, enquiries, applications by email or phone.
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> Dave
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> Use Revisewise @ http://revisewise.debatewise.com/
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