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The SVG static version of our base visualization has been created through Adobe Illustrator 16.2.1, SVG Export Plug-In, which was the cause of dozens of bugs like overlaping words and a much bigger file than necessary. This scenario has demanded manual edition and clean up of the mentioned file.

Additionaly, editing this file by hand may provide an excelent background about how the static version in svg is structured, which will be very important while creating the automatic generation of the visualization.

The technique used in the article Somalia famine: how the world responded - interactive to show media coverage over time seems perfectly fit on our need of showing events and institutions.

This technique has been developed by Bocoup datavis lab

Identify forums where internet governance is being discussed/decided over the next few years (que processos? que eventos? que relacao entre esses eventos em diferentes processos? que locais? que datas?)

Quais os eventos mais importantes a cada processo (cada processo é uma cor no mapa atual)?

Que eventos se relacionam a quais temas da governanca de internet? (ex. ciberseguranca, infraestrutura, etc) - ver artigo laura di nardis

Identify avenues for participation for civil society to influence those processes, (qual o grau de abertura do evento? quem pode participar? soh governos ou tb comunidade tecnica, academica, sociedade civil e setor privado?)

Every event shall also be clickable for accessing links of the important background document (ideally: also have a space for users to suggest additional documents, processes, or other information to be added, through a suggestion form for example. Analyze the need for and feasibility of developing innovative automated mechanisms to integrate documents into the platform so that it is updated on a regular basis. Ex. RSS, web crawlers, etc.)

Build a resource library of the relevant documents is needed to accompany the visualization -- filterable by topic and organization, based on the same taxonomy.

Use a special area to show details of an event like described here