[wsfii-discuss] Trainerspot Webinars: A Potential tool to spread wsfii ideas to Africa and Developing World

Sat Jun 16 10:42:33 UTC 2007

Asif,

Thanks for joining here. I had a chance to finally check out your website. You are doing great work, but I would like to find out more about the actual train that you have in Kenya and how that project works. 

I would be reluctant to do the presentation on my own as I am not an expert on wireless but I am sure there are many here which would be great candidates to do the webinar.

You also seem to understand that it is not just about wireless but using ICT best practices as a way to effectively bridge the digital divide and scale and integrate existing development best practices and communicate that effectively to the field.

some areas to consider (might be good to break the presentation into three parts):
1. about wsfii community wireless networks and background
2. the technical sides of wireless and where things are going
3. telecenter model and wireless considering open digital village as one example discussing the need for a holistic approach

Jeff

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From: asif.daya at trainerspod.com
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 2:50 PM
To: "'Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructure'" <wsfii-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
Subject: RE: [wsfii-discuss] ... take the lead - Date selection 

If you can get a group from Africa that has access to computers, speakers
and a microphone - I have access to Elluminate whereby we can have a
discussion via a URL. It is a VLE and allows for PPTs, www, multimedia etc.
People can chat one at a time and can use the Whiteboard. Let me know if
this interests you. I usually use it for 2 hours otherwise my bill gets too
high for storing the media - yes, we can record it.

Asif

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[mailto:wsfii-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Ian Howard
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:28 AM
To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructure
Subject: Re: [wsfii-discuss] ... take the lead - Date selection

Vickram, Gregers,

Yes, I see your point, that thought had occurred to me too, but lets say
that we use the meetomatic results as a survey to see where there is a the
most interest for a date, then there will need to be a decision made, based
on that info and other variables. To a degree I trust that most people will
self-select themselves (not respond if they are not intending to go). I am
certainly willing to use another tool, but how about we use this one for the
date survey?

Tomas,

Yes, you are quite right, our local people are not, so far, very involved.
This is somewhat typical for many on-line projects, I'm afraid. Perhaps
because local people may not have a computer of their own, at their home, or
where they work and thus they do not participate in such forums as actively
and are not immersed in an online culture. 
This particular issue is one that the open source community has to address
in Africa in general, how do we engage local participants, how can they
participate in these forums? Does the medium have to change? 
Sometimes I also find that the way we in low context societies dialogue on
these lists might be awkward from people of higher context societies. 
Perhaps we just need to continue to encourage and invite the local
participants to be involved. Any other ideas?

Ian

marco wrote:
> hi
>
> i agree with both of you. how this is possible? i think because, you 
> are discussing a problem which has not yet evolved. i think we just 
> should give this tool a chance, as we should give it to the ghanaian 
> administrive group, as seen in the minutes. its surely a process and 
> the discussions we do are I in no way useless, but of great value, as 
> this is the kind of direct exchange the world has missed for the last 
> 100.000 years ;)
>
> grts, marco, berlin
>
> Vickram Crishna schrieb:
>   
>> --- Gregers Petersen  wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Vickram Crishna wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> To be fair I think only those who can actually go (with reasonable 
>>>> surety) to the meeting, or will
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> be
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> helping out with logistics and therefore are
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> impacted
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> by the date, should vote. In other words, only
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> direct
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> stakeholders should vote.
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> I believe the position from which Ian argues is that everyone is a 
>>> direct stakeholder - everyone who (at what ever
>>> level) participates in
>>> WSFII activities is a stakeholder.
>>>     
>>>       
>> I think this is applicable and very much a WSFII value for other 
>> situations, but here we are discussing specific WSFII events - how 
>> will I add value (and not in fact detract from a fair assessment) by 
>> voting for some date for an event that I have no intention or ability 
>> to attend or otherwise directly contribute.
>>
>> Take the Ghana meeting - if it should turn out that I am not going to 
>> attend anyway, how will my vote be useful (I could mischievously vote 
>> the meet should be in September or December, and thus skew the 
>> results, and impact other WSFII meets or even meets of other wireless 
>> mesh groups - all uselessly)?
>>   
>>     
>>>> I don't know if this meeting scheduler can remove irrelevant votes.
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> Non of the votes are irrelevant!
>>>     
>>>       
>> Just as someone asked who will take charge of administrative tasks 
>> for a web site, to prevent spamming, vandalising or disreputable 
>> activities, so must there be some purpose in voting. Thus the 
>> electoral college for a meet ought to be made up of people who want 
>> to attend or help directly.
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Are there any other choices
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> available for such processes online?
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> It will be up to the indiviudals who are active on the coord-list 
>>> (which is open to everybody) to look at the options, discuss them on 
>>> the 'list'
>>> and come-up with a decision - and then get on with it.
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> Perfectly right. But they should also be able to review who has 
>> voted, in order to reverse the effect of such spamming.
>>
>> Vickram
>>
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