Questionnaire 1: Initial collection of factors.
We will send the first questionnaire on the sameday that
an expert agrees to serve on a Delphi panel using the
expert’s preference of e-mail, fax, or Web. The initial
questionnaire for a Delphi survey is very simple, since it
consists of an open-ended solicitation of ideas. The
questionnaire will ask three basic questions, each
To address the first research question (RQ1), the
questionnaire will ask experts to list at least six
important factors (see Schmidt) affecting the establishing
and growth of business use of the internet in the
countries of SSA. This question seeks to generate a list
of infrastructure factors, which we refer to as the
infrastructure list. To address the second research
question (RQ2), the questionnaire will ask experts
corresponding to one of the research questions.