Web Conferencing Solution Pattern

The Web Conferencing Solution Pattern shows how web conferencing technologies provide formal, structured synchronous collaboration instead of formal face-to-face meetings by enabling audio-visual interaction across the Internet.

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• Extends participation in NIH activities to individuals who are not physically present
  • Involves individuals who cannot travel
  • Improves quality of life for those who participate in NIH activities
• Improves productivity and quality of work when individuals can be virtually convened in situations where physical meetings are impractical
• Provides a cost-effective and flexible way to provide virtual face-to-face meetings across the Internet.
  • Reduces travel costs
  • Improves quality of life and productivity for meeting participants who avoid travel time
  • Allows participation by individuals who may not be available for travel
• Provides evolution path into the Web Collaboration Pattern
  

• This collaborative infrastructure may need to be centrally funded in order to be made more readily available across the entire NIH enterprise.
• Provision for training of participants before the actual meetings is critical to the success of using software, and hardware, that the meeting participants would only use on an infrequent basis.