3Com is to ask the world how it feels about various issues, ranging
from the profound to the mundane, during a four-day worldwide opinion
poll, which begins on November 15.
A team of 500 Planet Pollsters will be spread out in 90 countries to
interview both the connected and the unconnected.
They will travel to locations as remote as the Xingu region of Brazil
and Menongue region of Angola to obtain the answers of those "who have
traditionally been technologically disenfranchised".
The Planet Project has reportedly adopted strict privacy controls and
has assured the security of the site. Respondent identities, including
e-mail addresses, will be removed from answers to the poll
questions.
Only aggregated data from the survey will be made public and personal
information will never be shared with any other party for any
reason.
3Com also assures poll participants that data gathered through the poll
will not be used for any marketing activity. In keeping with this
mindset, the site will not feature any ads and no merchandise will be
sold.
The survey is to feature 20 multiple choice questions in nine
categories, including religion; health and wellbeing; self-image; sex;
education, and law and order.
The survey is to be featured in Chinese, English, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.
