<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Alice Munyua <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:alice@apc.org" target="_blank">alice@apc.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":14e" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">The AUC is considering a mechanism that would allow for <span id="c8014ffb-8768-4e8f-a4d0-3dd6d42163d2" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">wider public</span><br>
<span id="c8c618a7-2ce8-4cbd-b5b6-72e3a6231e23" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">consultations</span>.</div></blockquote></div><br><br>That&#39;s great to hear. IF they do go ahead with the idea of setting up a survey (which I&#39;m sure many on this and other list will be happy to assist in designing), one very effective way of getting broad-based input from the African tech community will be as follows.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Get an AU person to book a 15 minute session at each of the major IT events taking place on the continent (AFRINIC meetings, African Internet Summit, ICANN <span id="f5f263fb-f764-4bfd-8cff-dc55e00950fb" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">etc</span>). During that session, the person presents the goals and then asks people to fill in the survey. From experience, they&#39;d need both online and paper survey.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><br>Mukom Akong T.<br><br><a href="http://about.me/perfexcellence" target="_blank">http://about.me/perfexcellence</a>        |  twitter: @perfexcellent                                                <br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>“When you work, you are the FLUTE through whose lungs the whispering of the hours turns to MUSIC&quot; - Kahlil Gibran<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div>
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