Re: More participation from under-represented regions

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On 5/26/13 4:01 PM, SM 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.
They are network operators, system adminstrators, students and NGO participants bootstraping parts of the experience by participating in activities with their regional peers. A week-long series of workshops held once a year has some worthwhile goals and notable sucesses I don't think of it a fertile training ground for new IETF participants.
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?
People come to the IETF with work because they have a problem which the work product of their contribution through the IETF activity addresses. That's fairly expensive, time consuming, and has uncertain results.

There are past and present contributors from various parts of the continent, I've had the privilege of working with some of them.

Regards,
-sm





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