Jacqueline, Try to see the positives. I wouldn't see it that dramatically. Access to the Internet, regular or on occasion, is available in many many countries. And the other means are by no means excluded. Dominik -----Original Message----- From: Jacqueline A. Morris [mailto:jam@jacquelinemorris.com] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 11:04 PM To: Dominik Filipp Cc: At-Large Worldwide Subject: Re: [At-Large] ALAC and AtLarge and france at large Cool - just that a lot of the ALS work is in disseminating information and receiving input via alternative means. There's radio, f2f meetings, school outreach and a lot of off-line work going on in the developing world to try to get input from the users who aren't as connected or knowledgeable as the people who are active on this list. That's one of the reasons that the "global elections" weren't global or representative of users IMO (the massive public announcement wasn't anywhere near massive enough). Jacqueline Dominik Filipp wrote:
Jacqueline,
This is just an idea to think over. Online surveys, when massively publicly announced, can be a very efficient means to collect large pattern of public opinions. I know there are countries where the Internet access is perhaps not that obvious as in developed countries;
and I am not proposing to restrict the gathering of opinions solely to
the surveys, there are also other means worth considering. But the Internet access is widely spread nowadays and covers a large part of the planet.
I hope we can both agree that online surveys would be a significant first step towards the public community. And they can be conducted on regional level by ALSes. Other approaches can be considered in parallel, no problem.
Dominik