An example of real-time communication came in the form of shared lectures. Each partner was
to host a lecture focusing on a topic that will be relevant to the themes of the project and the
idea was to stream them live to the other partners. However the culpable component
responsible for the difficulties in engaging on this occasion was the technology itself. Live
streaming of these lectures did work to some degree but due to the essential supporting visual
content of some presentations, viewing them after compression and decompression for
network transmission failed to communicate some of the ideas presented for discussion.