Hi SM, There are some from Africa trying to find the way in, but they may not mention it, however, training is not important much to make people participate but the type of training and its period inside organisation not outside. For example, I notice that there was one African participant (not me), trying to participate in writing one draft for the community, so was he/she encouraged by the WGs, Directors, or the Chairs, was the draft guided? was that participant asked to market that draft in his/her community region to make support. The IETF majority-culture may not be much welcoming from others point of view, I try to market IETF but need help of the responds others may get from discouragings. AB On 5/27/13, SM <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Edwin, > At 13:59 26-05-2013, Edwin A. Opare wrote: >>The awareness creation should start at the grassroots level : "The >>Universities"!. Train the soon-to-graduate Computer >>Scientist/Engineer on the values and essence of the IETF and it'll >>forever be with them even after graduation. >> >>To elicit participation from the under-represented regions, the >>universities are a sure starting point, then a lot more >>industry-focused awareness creation by the ISOC local Chapters. > > AfNOG has trained hundreds of people in Africa. Those people do not > participate on the mailing list. There are some people from Africa > who have attended IETF meetings. They don't participate in the > IETF. Why is it that there are some participants from South America > whereas there aren't any participants from Africa? > > Regards, > -sm > >