At the end of outreach, the Select Committee had the following sources of data: a) Data from the Outreach b) Views from Children c) Views from the Diaspora d) Views from written submissions e) Views from Members of Parliament f) Views from the disabled It is this data that then required to be properly categorised through a Data Uploading exercise that commenced in January 2011. The list of individuals who formed the outreach teams is appended to this report (See Annexure 2) 3. Data Uploading The Data Uploading exercise commenced on the 10th of January 2011 and until the 25th of the same month. The Minister of Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Hon. Advocate Eric Matinenga officially opened the exercise. The Data Uploading exercise was initially scheduled to take a week, but it became clear that the Select Committee had under estimated the amount of work involved. For the first three days, the two hundred and ten Rapporteurs went through the orientation and typing in of the outreach work that had not been typed during outreach. Challenges related to power cuts and the late availability of batteries for the various gadgets which were being used during outreach meant that some of the information from meetings could not be typed on the day the meetings had been held as previously expected. In typing the reports that had only been in hard copy, disagreements arose in some instances as some of the Rapporteurs had objected to what had been recorded. Some meeting information from Masvingo required the intervention of the Select Committee to agree on the reconstructed report. In other areas such as Beitbridge, disagreements arose due to the high number of meetings which had been held per ward in some of the wards. The Select Committee managed to resolve all the issues and all meeting reports were captured in the software called CODACA. The Data Uploading exercise ensured that all meetings held in a particular ward would be grouped together in preparation for the production of a ward report in future exercises. When all the meeting reports had been uploaded, CODACA would create a ward report instantly, indicating what the people had said at each of the meetings. All this information is held in a giant server meant for the purpose. After the uploading, all the information in CODACA was 43 The Constitution Select Committee (COPAC) Report to Parliament, February 2013