[Ailist] AI summit with the illiterate people

[Dawn Dole]

Hello PR,

I see you are getting quite a few responses to your question from people who have worked in situations similar to yours all encouraging. 

 What is the overall purpose of gathering data through Appreciative Interviews? Is one of your questions concerning how you will capture and take back the interview data and stories and dreams to the group back in the city who will be working with the data to write a new constitution for the country? I think that is the bigger question. Of course in the villages you can have everyone interview each other and share and dream and explore together in dialogue. But, how will you take all of this richness back to the bigger planning group for the country?

How have others dealt with this question?

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Dawn Dole
coopdole at windstream.net (new email)

---- Parashu <parashu at wlink.com.np> wrote: 

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Dear All,
Namaste from Nepal !
I need to do summits (with a certain purpose of research) with the people of rural parts of Nepal where most of the people are illiterate . I have to interview as many people as I can and the best way to do is to do the summits (I think). Even in summit, there can be very few people who can interview others. Does anybody have any experience of doing summits with such people? Or is there any references/books/articles regarding this subject? Do you know if the book "The Appreciative Inquiry Summit"(By Jim Ludema and .......) available in the internet? We don't have any books of AI in our market. 
parashurt at gmail.com
parashu at wlink.com.np 

Appreciatively

Parashu Ram Timalsina (PR)
Secretary General 
Nepal Appreciative Inquiry National Network (NAINN)
977-1-5529844 (R)
977-98510-19145 (Cell)
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