All,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 10, 2007 3:30 PM, kwasi boakye-akyeampong <<a href="mailto:kboakye1@yahoo.co.uk">kboakye1@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>"I would rather attend a meeting of 12 people who know what they want to<br> do and are willing and able to intervene in real processes, than a<br> meeting of 12,000 people who don't and aren't."</div>
</blockquote><div><br><aside><br>If this is the case, me wonders why  the IGF gets so much attention, as it sounds much more like  the latter group than the former.<br></aside><br><br>Anyway, the answer to the  question:
<br><h1 class="YfMhcb"><span id="1fgb" class="VrHWId"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How do we engender effective participat</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ion from developing countries (Africa)? is fairly simple, and can be found in many places:
</span></font></span></h1><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/training/index.htm">http://www.afrinic.net/training/index.htm</a><br><a href="http://www.afnog.org/index.html">http://www.afnog.org/index.html</a><br><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/index.htm">
http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/index.htm</a><br><a href="http://icons.afrinic.net/">http://icons.afrinic.net/</a><br></div></div><a href="http://www.isoc.org/educpillar/ntw.shtml">http://www.isoc.org/educpillar/ntw.shtml</a>
<br><a href="http://www.icann.org/fellowships/terms-and-conditions.htm">http://www.icann.org/fellowships/terms-and-conditions.htm</a><br><a href="http://www.isoc.org/educpillar/fellowship/overview.shtml">http://www.isoc.org/educpillar/fellowship/overview.shtml
</a><br><a href="http://www.isoc.org/educpillar/cctld/">http://www.isoc.org/educpillar/cctld/</a><br><a href="http://ws.edu.isoc.org/">http://ws.edu.isoc.org/</a><br><br>In my experience all of these programs engender effective participation amongst Africans, none of them are just a "jolly", tho they can be lots of fun!
<br><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>$ whois -h <a href="http://whois.afrinic.net">whois.afrinic.net</a> mctim<br>