Working in rural areas

[Eddie Palmer]

Hi Jan (?)

A lot of my work in Scotland is in rural areas, and we only ever use
flipcharts - never computers! In fact, Open Futures NEVER has demands to use
computerised recording, even in the corporate sector. I also believe that
this is counter-cultural anyway to the spirit of OS . You will also hear
from people working for the UN in many parts of the owrld who have no
technology to hand at all.
With regard to rural Scotland, where people are often suspicious of
materialistic tendencies, one would not find sympathy anyway with producing
a bank of laptops.
We write up and deliver within 3 days to clients

Eddie Palmer
Open Futures
Edinburgh
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  Subject: Working in rural areas


    Hi,

    Working in Rwanda since 1995, using 'Appreciative Inquiry' since 1999 &
got an introduction in working with Open Space last december, I wonder how
to work with Open Space in rural areas, where a lot of people are illiterate
and there are no means to use computer or any other electronic devise. Does
someone have any experience in working inrural areas, under the same
circumstances and how can we proceed.

    Most of are partner-organizations are Community Based Organizations
(CBO), which work directly with local farmers. Local autorities are
interested in these approaches (Ai&OST), but our main challenge is on
reporting. We're looking for ways to deal with this challenge & asking
locals to search for alternative ways of reporting and reproducing
documents.

    Does anyone have experience with this issue?
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