iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session XI.
Round Table: Chairs: Jacinto Lajas
Jose María Olmo
Free Software penetration in the Administration still low. This also means (cause or consequence?) that bidding processes don’t usually include free software in their requirements, either as a condition or as a possibility.
Consequences of this situation:
Lack of cooperation and collaboration between administrations
Interoperability made more difficult
There is a lack of communities of free software for the Administration in which developers and users can meet and exchange impressions and design common strategies
Francisco Huertas
Free Software as a strategy to develop the Information Society.
Free Software avoids:
A...
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session X.
Round Table: Chairs: Goyo Tovar
Antonio Fumero
The Web: technologies, people and content. The Web brings potential, but using it is another issue. And in using it, context matters.
Ícaro Moyano
Age is a clear limit of Web 2.0.
Three stages of the web:
The web as a journal: unidirectional
The web as media: everyone’s a journalist
The web as a sharing place
New Internet users no longer identify themselves with a nickname, but with their real names, including a snapshot of their own.
And it seems that youngsters, that are usually said not being interested in politics, do use Social Networking Sites to engage in activism and promote campaigns.
Marc Vidal
Are the limits of the...
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session IX
Debate: The Handbook of the blog in the enterprise.Chairs: César Ramos
Genís Roca
We should focus on what is an enterprise and not on blogs. Do we agree on what do we understand by “enterprise”? An enterprise is:
the acknowledged and legal way to have a personal adventure.
A temporal union of people around an interest
An interest group
An institution: a big telecom is like a ministry, and a ministry like an enterprise.
There are many enterprises: working for your own or employed, with or without employees, with or without workmates, with or without leadership, with or without partners, etc.
Blogging in the enterprise is easy when you’re alone (e.g....
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session VII.
Round Table: Networked Citizens. Whence do blogs go?Chairs: Pau Llop
Víctor Ruiz
Blogs come from the participative sites that flourished after the Slashdot experience, both technically and conceptually.
Blogs have been an evolution of forums, but only at the usability level, but the general idea has not really changed that much.
And like forums, they are of short reach. Only 6% of the population read political blogs… but we keep telling politicians that they have to be on the Net and have their own blog. Does this make any sense at all? When everyone has a blog (if that ever happens), will we at last make of them an influential tool?
Fernando Tricas
Some questions about...
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session V.
Round Table: Connected Citizens. Cyberactivism.Chairs: Rosa Jiménez Cano
Alana Moceri, president Democrats Abroad Spain
First time that primary elections can be done on-line. This means increasing the number of countries where voting is possible from 34 up to 161.
Online, everyone can contribute: absolutely everyone can upload videos to YouTube, photos to Flickr or text to any blog. Pro: democratization. Con: loss of control over your campaing.
Fundrising is key and is a good proxy to test the health of a political campaign.
Obama’s discourse is really 2.0: you can, empowerment, engagement. MyBarackObama.com is a good example of it, where you can even earn points as a...
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session IV.
Round Table: mGovernment. The Mobile Phone and its integration in e-GovernmentChairs: Nacho Campos
What is a mobile phone
Mobile
A device you use every day
110% of penetration
Many features
Tomy Ahonen: the mobile phone is the 7th medium:
Personal
Always on
Always with us
Integrated paying method
Immediate tool
mGovernment: how the Administration adapts itself to the nomadic style of the citizen (The Economist)
Goal: from m-murmur to m-chat to m-conversation (unidirectional, bidirectional, multidirectional).
Barriers:
Lack of leadership, political and technical
Infrastructures
Resistance to change of public servants
Telecommunication Operators
Lack of communication plans...
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session III.
Case Study: Gijón. The Connected CityChairs: Chiqui de la Fuente
José M. Pérez
The political role is fundamental in the process of change.
Active listening is crucial, and it’s very important to avoid the “Big Brother” paranoia in order to let information flow free. Only with absolute openness can the Administration make its information interact with the citizen’s. Interconnection requires openness and access to private information — not the same thing as surveillance. This can be made possible by making public the “what” but anonymizing the “by whom”.
Interesting experience: digital literacy courses which enrollment had to...
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session II.
Round Table: Innovation and Change. Is it possible to make the citizen’s life easier?Chairs: Jose Antonio Donaire
Xavier Llinares Sala
Users and managers don’t usually think equally concerning the design, use and satisfaction of a specific service.
To make ends meet, some changes have to take place:
There are too many public servants… in exchange of better, up-to-date, adding-value ones.
Public servants that add value have to be rewarded.
Barriers have to be removed.
More management, less bureaucracy.
Politics have to be de-professionalized and put, instead, professionals. Politics not as a career, but as a place for real experts to bring in ideas.
The shift...
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session I (part II).
Opening Session (part II)
Chairs Carmen Sánchez-Carazo
Intelligent CitiesJosé Gumersindo García
ICTs will improve the image that public administrations have before the citizenry: proximity, transparency, etc.
e-Administration and Modernization go hand in hand and they are co-requisites for the development of both.
The Public Sector does have to bet on digital literacy training for their public servants. But not only their employees, but also firms. With this digital literacy many projects can take place: instant messaging for better communication, datasharing through wireless networks, e-commerce, etc.
Free software is very important for the Public Sector, and again,...
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These are the materials I’m using at the iCities: Primeras Jornadas sobre Blogs, e-Government y Participación Digital [First Conference on Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation], for the opening speech, in which I take part on Friday 9th May 2008.
Slides:
Bibliography
Castells, M. (2000). “Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society”. In British Journal of Sociology, Jan-Mar 2000, 51(1), 5-24. London: Routledge.
Castells, M. (2004). “Informationalism, Networks, And The Network Society: A Theoretical Blueprint”. In Castells, M. (Ed.), The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Dutta, S., López-Claros, A. & Mia, I. (Eds.) (2006). Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006: Leveraging ICT for...
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Anuario 2008 de procesos de paz (Escola de cultura de pau, April 2008) [Spanish text]
Crisis in Kenya: Land, Displacement and the Search for "Durable Solutions," HPG Policy Brief, no. 31 (ODI, April 2008) [text]
Global Symposium +5 on Information for Humanitarian Action: Final Report (OCHA, May 2008) [text]
Guantánamo's Refugees: Trapped by Inaction (Center for Constitutional Rights, Feb....
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e-STAS is a Symposium about the Technologies for the Social Action, with an international and multi-stakeholder nature, where all the agents implicated in the development and implementation of the ICT (NGO’s, Local authorities, Universities, Companies and Media) are appointed in an aim to promote, foster and adapt the use of the ICT for the social action.
Last reflections
It’s a pity that I couldn’t take notes on the last session of the event, where conclusions from the different round tables and workshops where read: I was on the stage and just had not the chance to type.
Summing up now is way too difficult. I can just say that this is one of the events you cannot miss, especially because “everyone” is there and the people you meet, their reflections, their...
e-STAS is a Symposium about the Technologies for the Social Action, with an international and multi-stakeholder nature, where all the agents implicated in the development and implementation of the ICT (NGO’s, Local authorities, Universities, Companies and Media) are appointed in an aim to promote, foster and adapt the use of the ICT for the social action.
Here come my notes for session VI.
Ángel de la Riva
Cibervoluntarios
CiberMix: Diffusion and advocacy program that shows the benefits of ICTs in institutions, firms and citizens in rural areas through educational, leisure, content and services activities.
Antonio Fumero
periodismociudadano.com: a gate for initiatives, experiences, people, etc. that deal with citizen journalism.
The goals of citizen journalism (and blogging):...
e-STAS is a Symposium about the Technologies for the Social Action, with an international and multi-stakeholder nature, where all the agents implicated in the development and implementation of the ICT (NGO’s, Local authorities, Universities, Companies and Media) are appointed in an aim to promote, foster and adapt the use of the ICT for the social action.
Here come my notes for session VI.
Ángel de la Riva
Cibervoluntarios
CiberMix: Diffusion and advocacy program that shows the benefits of ICTs in institutions, firms and citizens in rural areas through educational, leisure, content and services activities.
Antonio Fumero
periodismociudadano.com: a gate for initiatives, experiences, people, etc. that deal with citizen journalism.
The goals of citizen journalism (and blogging):...
e-STAS is a Symposium about the Technologies for the Social Action, with an international and multi-stakeholder nature, where all the agents implicated in the development and implementation of the ICT (NGO’s, Local authorities, Universities, Companies and Media) are appointed in an aim to promote, foster and adapt the use of the ICT for the social action.
Here come my notes for session IV. (notes at random, grouped by speaker, but not necessarily in chronological order)
Left to right: Francisco Ortiz Chaparro, Belén Perales, Javier Estévez (moderator), Javier de la Nava Trinidad, José Manuel García Prieto
Belén Perales, IBM
Why corporate volunteering? Employees demand it and their satisfaction, engagement, etc. does increase with nonprofit or development projects engagement....
e-STAS is a Symposium about the Technologies for the Social Action, with an international and multi-stakeholder nature, where all the agents implicated in the development and implementation of the ICT (NGO’s, Local authorities, Universities, Companies and Media) are appointed in an aim to promote, foster and adapt the use of the ICT for the social action.
Here come my notes for session V.
Subjects
Free software
Accessibility and usability
Linguistic diversity
Educational programmes
New content programmes
Debate
(random ideas, slightly sorted/grouped)
Muhammad Yunus proposes a new kind of enterprise where the focus is on stakeholders and not on shareholders, where no profit is seek, but only social benefit.
Low cost computers/devices are converging with mainstream infrastructures....
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e-STAS is a Symposium about the Technologies for the Social Action, with an international and multi-stakeholder nature, where all the agents implicated in the development and implementation of the ICT (NGO’s, Local authorities, Universities, Companies and Media) are appointed in an aim to promote, foster and adapt the use of the ICT for the social action.
Here come my notes for session II. (notes at random, grouped by speaker, but not necessarily in chronological order)
Left to right: Daniel Pimienta, Stéphanie Lucien-Brun, Kafui Amenu Prebbie
Stéphanie Lucien-Brun, Handicap International
ICTs can be very strong barriers towards rights expression if are not properly made accessible for everyone.
We should not talk about access, but about uses, strictly related with capacity....
e-STAS is a Symposium about the Technologies for the Social Action, with an international and multi-stakeholder nature, where all the agents implicated in the development and implementation of the ICT (NGO’s, Local authorities, Universities, Companies and Media) are appointed in an aim to promote, foster and adapt the use of the ICT for the social action.
Here come my notes for session III. (notes at random, grouped by speaker, but not necessarily in chronological order)
Left to right: Raoul Weiler, Jérôme Combaz, María del Mar Negreiro, Berta Maure Rubio
Raoul Weiler, Club of Rome
It will be possible for everyone to access the Internet trough/thanks to low cost devices.
But education will make the difference, not devices.
Jérôme Combaz, Charte pour l’Inclusion...
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Raul Zambrano, UNDP
ICTs, Digital Divide and Social Inclusion
Four stages of ICT Development
connectivity, get people connected
content and have people have capacities to deal with it
services
participation, Web 2.0
Digital divide
Within countries
Among countries
Within and among countries
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The Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research, University of Athabasca, has invited me to impart a seminar in the framework of the CIDER Sessions about my digressions around The Personal Research Portal. The focus here will be on the educator, as I did in my article El portal personal del profesor: El claustro virtual o la red tras las aulas [The Personal Research Portal: The Virtual Faculty or the Net behind the Classroom].
The seminar will take place online — using Elluminate — on Friday 11th April 2008, at 17:00h GMT (in English).
Relevant info
Materials for the seminar (browse and download)
Link to Presentation (click to log in 30min prior to the start of the presentation)
CIDER Sessions home page
Abstract
Instructional technology has suffered, in our opinion, two...
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The Destitution Tally: an indication of the extent of destitution among asylum seekers and refugees (Asylum Support Programme Inter-Agency Partnership, Jan. 2008) [text]
- Note: If the link doesn't work, alternate access is available through Refblog.]
EXCOM Standing Committee, 41st Meeting, Documents (4-6 March 2008) [access]
- Issues discussed include protracted refugee situations, supporting...
As promised in this earlier post, Forced Migration Online (FMO) has released the first of a planned series of podcasts recorded during the 11th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) conference, which was held in Cairo earlier this year. The theme of the initial plenary was "Emerging patterns of irregularity and their effects among migrants and refugees in the...
AWR Bulletin, vol. 45, no. 4 (2007) [contents]
- Mix of articles on asylum and migration policies in Europe and North America.
Field Exchange, no. 32 (Jan. 2008) [text]
- From the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN).
Journal of Refugee and Migration Issues, vol. 4, no. 1 (2008) [contents]
- Two articles, including one on immigration and asylum law in Australia.
Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol....
Next 24th and 25th April, 2008, takes place the third edition of e-STAS 2008: Symposium de las Tecnologías para la Acción Social [Symposium on Technologies for Social Action].
I was convinced that the Development Cooperation 2.0 Conference that took place in Gijón in January would have been the event of the year related to the Information Society and Development Cooperation, ICT4D, Nonprofit Technology and so. Well, they will have to share this honor.
e-STAS 2007 was a great event, an event to network, learn and reflect. It was also a conference that succeeded in bringing in very interesting people from all over the world, renowned and respected in their fields. Compared to other events, it really facilitated participation from the audience, both in site and online.
The Program is...
The Vienna Forum to Fight Human Trafficking began today and will run through 15 February. Sessions will look at what makes people vulnerable to being trafficked; the impact of human trafficking on individuals, communities and economies; and the available instruments and tools that can be used to better protect people and fight human trafficking. An IOM-led session will be held tomorrow that...
Round Table: Enric Senabre (moderator), Ana Moreno, Eduardo Sánchez, Carlos Mataix, Paco Prieto, Martín JerchICTs in the policies and strategies of Development Cooperation, particularly in Spanish Cooperation
Carlos Mataix: some reflections about the design and management of organizational networks in cooperation
Networks are open and can help to reduce transaction costs between nodes, provided there are common standards, confidence, etc. in these transactions
Networks are complex, but a good environment to help ideas grow
From (classic) strategic planning towards a paradigm or leadership based on values, and networks should be lead by such values
Generative networks have distributed power, then again challenging the traditional ways of leadership and organization government: the...
Use of ICTs in development cooperation models
More efficacy, based on knowledge-intensive projects
Usefulness must drive the implementation of ICTs, not hype
ICTs for a better nonprofit performance and for better project results
Learn from ICT adoption in developing countries and apply them in developed ones
ICTs challenge the traditional design of the nonprofit sector
Capacity building a must for nonprofits to benefit from ICTs
Usability, accessibility, content, sustainability
e-Governance to enhance citizen engagement
Networked cooperation
A necessary response to the Network Society
Shift from hierarchy to horizontal interaction
Human networks boosted by technological networks
Knowledge sharing
Project-centered cooperation, enabling inclusion
Multistakeholder partnerships...
Lady Virginia Mugarra VelardeEducation for HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases prevention
The role of ICTs to educate about sexually transmitted diseases prevention, especially to educate educators.
An important aspect of such education is to ease the communication between the physicists and their patients.
Goals
Train educators about these diseases… and how to educate about them
Sensitize youngsters about prevention
Mobilize policy makers
The main successes are, above all, the speed and spread of information and training, with a strong focus on prevention, which is where information can actually make a difference.
Tools: a platform with three axes (1) content (2) spaces for debate (3) online assistance
María Jesús MedinaCybervolunteering at Iníci@te Programme
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Ismael Peña-López (moderator), Shafika Isaacs, Vikas Nath, Paula UimonenNetworking Cooperation — towards the networked Cooperation
Ismael Peña-López: Introduction
see my position paper here
Paula Uimonen: Is development cooperation prepared?
No. The structure is too bureaucratic.
But the network logic is horizontal, cross-sectorial, transversal, non-hierarchical.
But it seems that the international arena is working for a more networked development cooperation sector.
Shafika Isaacs: Are organizations prepared to network?
It depends: they’re all in an evolutionary process.
There’re more and more organizations working in the field of ICT4D.
And a rising awareness on the issue.
Big leadership behind ICT4D fostering.
Common agenda that enabled collaboration and networking,...
Florencio CeballosIDRC: Learnings, limitations and challenges from the telecentre.org experience
Crisis of performance, effectiveness, results, etc. in development cooperation, despite the increasing amount of resources devoted to it.
Reasons
Industrial way of thinking, not post-industrial. The actual development paradigm is old and not valid. We need a new, up-to-date paradigm.
Focus on pilot projects that are not maintained after the pilot phase, so they die in the medium- or long-run.
Short-sightedness of asymmetric internationalism: there’s more and more knowledge in the South about south issues than in the north, so don’t (you northern developed country) look at your local environment, because it does not mirror the southern reality.
Money is an issue, but not the......