Hi Alex, Just to let you know that I will be available online every evening after 5pm to edit debates. I have already spoken to David Crane about this and he said it was fine as I work full-time hours mon to fri. Many Thanks and Kind Regards, Vee From: Vee Moda 1 Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 6:35 PM To: debatewiserrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Debatewise RRT] Re: Copenhagen conference global youth panel moderation Dear Alex, Yes - I would like to participate as a moderator during the conference. Many Thanks and Kind Regards, Vee From: Alex Helling Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 5:32 PM To: debatewiserrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Debatewise RRT] Copenhagen conference global youth panel moderation Hi everyone, 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. 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: Amie Tsang Mwenehu Fondo Michael Archer - possibly Kim Redgrave - possibly Timothy Johnson - possibly Jasmin Ademovic Harriet Lowe - possibly Sarah Lynch Gary Cocker Vee Moda - possibly 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. 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. 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. So please get back to us, Regards, Alex http://debatewise.org/cop-15 I have added the original email from David below. Hi, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Questions, enquiries, applications by email or phone. Dave Use Revisewise @ http://revisewise.debatewise.com/