Re: [Membership] Remote Participation in the Singapore Open Meeting

[edyson@edventure.com (Esther Dyson)]

Asia was on our list of regions, along with Africa and Latin America.
Because APRICOT was happening around the time we wanted to have a board
meeting, it seemed/seems to make a lot of sense.

Esther

At 05:59 PM 19/02/99 -0000, Dr Nii Quaynor wrote:
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>>Again, my original question - what was the decision criteria for having a
>meeting in Singapore? Why not Toronto or LA or Mexico City or the Caribbean?
>Why Singapore - that is my question?  Like I said, I appreciate the real
>video connection, but why Singapore?
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>Why *not* Timbuctou, Cairo, Johannesburg, Bamako, Kampala, Accra, Nairobi,
>Luanda, Cotonou, Manzini ............ I wish I could toss a biased coin ;-)
>Its good for Asia this time around and lets hope for Jamaica in future.
>
>Nii
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