These fora provide much needed opportunities to share discoveries and learning from the field, or to apply insight from one sector to another.
Furthermore, we think that our observations are important because Internet discussion fora provide very 'clean' examples of written communication.
The awareness creation fora provided an opportunity to emphasise the importance of the vaccination campaign and collect important village contact details.
At the local level involvement of the DHTs and health facility staff in monitoring and supervision is likely to have increased sustainability of the intervention, and having DHTs involved in dissemination and speaking in various fora provided a sense that the package was not wholly led by researchers but owned by the whole community.
Professional classes, as before, are allowed to vent out their frustration, letting steam out of the system, for which outlets in narrowly-based parties and media fora are provided.
The national YPHD Fora also provide an opportunity for sharing examples of best practice.
In remote towns and villages in Papua and West Papua, the Youth Fora have provided a platform to empower local youth.
During Professor Hunziker's presidency, ADSA also: created a national score card for scoring dairies; standardized dairy judging contests; secured scholarships for student contests; improved national milk standards; developed ties with breed associations; and, provided fora for industry discussions on dairy instruction and extension services.
Community-based research collaborations may provide fora for addressing cultural and ethical concerns of biomedical research [Povey et al., 2010].
In order to overcome this chicken and egg problem and bootstrap the API adoption we developed a strategy whose corner stones were: proving the effectiveness of the API through pilot deployments and demo applications; lowering the cost of development for application creators and data providers; providing ample documentation and contact media; presence in several dissemination fora.
While commendable effort has been made to provide pastoral fora, mainly through groupings of livestock producers or Associations in Botswana, there is need to continuously involve the poorer pastoralists and avoid hijacking of such associations by richer and more powerful pastoralists.
