[AfrICANN-discuss] [Community-Discuss] Fwd: FIRE Africa Awards 2019
Dr Eberhard W Lisse
el at lisse.na
Mon Jun 10 09:13:32 UTC 2019
Typically African, we always blame others, even if when we want funding
from them.
el
On 10/06/2019 11:07 am, Matogoro Jabera wrote:
> Dear Arthur,
>
> Things need to be improved in your side. You should also understand
> diversities among African Countries which may lead each member to
> experience a unique challenge. Even after your testing results I was not
> able to submit the same and it was further communicated to your good office.
>
> Immediate attention couls have helped to solve the challenge reported.
> To the best of my understanding, web application administrator may
> experience a quiet different experience from web application end-users.
> Your testing is not a proof that everythings is working fine. There are
> a number of ogher issues may affect the same, platform, speed of
> connection, etc all of these requires extensive testing to achieve that
> confindence level.
>
>
> PLEASE IMPROVE YOUR TECHNICAL OPERATION AND CUSTOMER SUPPORT
>
>
> Regards,
> Matogoro
>
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, 11:56 Arthur Carindal, <arthur at afrinic.net
> <mailto:arthur at afrinic.net>> wrote:
>
> Dear Matogora
>
> We are really sorry for reading that you were not able to submit
> your project proposal for the FIRE Africa Awards 2019.
>
> When you reported your issue about submitting your application to
> our online platform on Thursday, May 23rd, 2019 we promptly ran a
> test as we always do before opening a call for proposal submissions
> and the test was successful.
>
> The outcome of this test was communicated to you also on Thursday,
> May 23rd so you could investigate any probable technical problem at
> your own end.
>
> Furthermore, during the duration of the call for proposals (26th
> April to 31st May 2019), we received a total of 239 applications
> submitted before and after the time you made your complaint. We
> also did not get any complaints similar to yours other than standard
> enquires about FIRE Award & Grants.
>
> We understand your frustration for not having been able to
> participate in the FIRE Awards 2019, and we sincerely apologise. We
> hope you will not be discouraged by this experience and you will
> continue to express unwavering interest in our FIRE Africa initiative.
>
>
> Kind Regards
> _______________________________________________________________
>
> Arthur Carindal N.
>
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>> On 7 Jun 2019, at 20:31, Matogoro Jabera <jaberamatogoro at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jaberamatogoro at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> Recently, AfrINIC announced for FIRE Awards for the outstanding
>> project. I tried more than five times to submit my project but was
>> not successful.
>>
>> I tried to contact AFRINIC but received the support which did not
>> answered my question. AFRINIC claimed that the upload link was
>> fine while to my side did not worked. Finally I gave up and life
>> goes on.
>>
>> I think something need to be fixed at AFRINIC. Just sharing out my
>> frustrations.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Matogoro
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Olatunde Awobuluyi <olatunde.awobuluyi at afrinic.net
>> <mailto:olatunde.awobuluyi at afrinic.net>>
>> Date: Mon, 20 May 2019, 19:09
>> Subject: FIRE Africa Awards 2019
>> To: <jaberamatogoro at gmail.com <mailto:jaberamatogoro at gmail.com>>
>> Cc: <fireafrica at afrinic.net <mailto:fireafrica at afrinic.net>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Jabhera
>>
>> Thank you for reaching out to us.
>>
>> Please, be aware that there is a difference between FIRE Africa
>> Awards and FIRE Africa Grants.
>>
>> FIRE Awards are awards given to ICT related projects that are
>> already completed or almost completed.
>>
>> FIRE Grants are funds given to ICT related projects that are in
>> their infancy stage or need financial input to expand the project.
>>
>> Unfortunately, there will be no calls for FIRE Africa grant
>> proposals in 2019.
>>
>> However, there is an ongoing call for FIRE Africa Awards in 2019.
>> You can submit a proposal for a FIRE Africa Award using this link
>> (https://fireafrica.org/awards).
>>
>> The "*submit your awards nomination*" link will be on the top
>> right pane of this webpage (Please view the attached image).
>>
>> With many thanks,
>>
>> The FIRE Africa team
>> --
>> Olatunde Awobuluyi
>> Funds for Internet Research and Education (FIRE) Program Manager, AFRINIC Ltd.
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