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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Online Volunteering,
meetings,
Nonprofits,
activism,
Participation, Engagement, Use, Activism,
icities,
e-Government, e-Administration,
alana moceri,
antoni gutierrez-rubi,
artivism,
cesar calderon,
rosa jimenez cano,
sebastian lorenzo
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.
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
The difference between the digital divide in developed countries and developing ones is that in developing ones is but another...
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Digital Divide,
ICT4D,
UNDP,
e-stas2008,
Raul Zambrano,
Online Volunteering,
meetings,
Nonprofits,
Participation, Engagement, Use, Activism
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
[note: in...
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development,
nptech,
Telecenter,
ICT Infrastructures,
Open Access,
Digital Literacy,
Telecentre,
Education & e-Learning,
cybervolunteer,
ICT volunteer,
Digital Divide,
ICT4D,
Online Volunteering,
meetings,
Nonprofits
Next January 30th and 31st takes place the Cooperación al Desarrollo 2.0: I Encuentro Internacional de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación para la Cooperación al Desarrollo [Cooperation for Development 2.0: I International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Cooperation for Development], in Gijón, Spain.
I have been invited to chair one of the four workgroups of the event, actually the one that is more focused on Cooperation for Development 2.0, the one called Networking Cooperation - towards the networked Cooperation.
I have also been asked to write an article, a position paper to start up the debate. It will be coming in the next days, but in the meanwhile, I’m working on the following concepts/keywords:
Network: Everything will be...
As already advanced, my paper Online Volunteers: Knowledge Managers in Nonprofits has been already published in the first issue of the new Journal of Information Technology in Social Change.
Abstract
Online volunteering is as old as the World Wide Web… or as the Internet itself. It is, notwithstanding, with the growing use of the WWW circa end of 1994 that it starts to become popular. Nevertheless, we believe that neither the concept nor the tasks that can be carried along by online volunteers are clear at all or, in any case, are the result of a wide consensus.
The research we here present analyzed 17 websites devoted to fostering volunteering to find out (a) if there was a broadly accepted definition of the concept of online volunteering and (b) if there was a list of tasks thus...
So, the online magazine UPDATE - Dianova International e-magazine has just published and article of mine entitled e-Learning para el desarrollo [e-Learning for Development].
The article is sort of a remake in Spanish of the Introduction to my paper e-Learning for Development: a model. Thus, there is really nothing new there, but if you can’t read English comfortably, well, you can use it as a good translation.
e-Learning para el desarrollo (140 Kb)
e-Learning for Development: a model (2,009 Kb)...
So, the online magazine UPDATE - Dianova International e-magazine has just published and article of mine entitled e-Learning para el desarrollo [e-Learning for Development].
The article is sort of a remake in Spanish of the Introduction to my paper e-Learning for Development: a model. Thus, there is really nothing new there, but if you can’t read English comfortably, well, you can use it as a good translation.
e-Learning para el desarrollo (140 Kb)
e-Learning for Development: a model (2,009 Kb)...
Yesterday I got an e-mail that asked for some help on finding resources about online facilitation and networking for a volunteering course.
Just had 5 minutes for her, but guess the advice I gave her was fair enough to share:
Borges, Federico (2005). «La frustración del estudiante en línea. Causas y acciones preventivas». Digithum UOC. N.º 7.
<http://www.uoc.edu/digithum/7/dt/esp/borges.pdf> [cited 30/05/2005].
Baumgartner, Peter (2005). ‘How to choose a Content Management Tool according to a Learning Model’ In elearningeuropa.info, 17 May 2005. Brussels: European Commission
<http://www.elearningeuropa.info/index.php?page=doc&doc_id=6148&doclng=6&menuzone=0&focus=1&lng=en&go.x=13&go.y=9> [cited 23/05/2005]
Full Circle...
The Fundación Bip-Bip has released the report “Estudio de diagnóstico sobre el nivel de utilización de las TIC en las entidades no lucrativas de acción social, que trabajan en pro de la inserción laboral en España” [Diagnosis Report on the degree of ICT use in social action nonprofits that work to promote job placements in Spain].
The report is 158 pages long and is really worth reading it.
Here comes a very illustrative highlight:
Only 14% of the analyzed organizations [370 in total] perform online training activities, and less than 19% uses teleworking as a possible option for its personnel [being most of them eventual online volunteers and not permanent staff]. Considering the hardware that most of the organizations do have, the deep degree of decentralization that...
The III Spanish National Volunteering Plan, for years 2005 to 2009, is born.
Everybody’s congratulating each other because the plan is the result of a huge consensus among the Administration and NGOs. My sincere kudos :)
But my personal bias focus on two other things (bolds are mine):
From Strategic Line #3 to strengthen volunteering in different communities:
Support and foster new kinds of volunteering in the heart of organizations, such as online volunteering.
From Strategic Line #4 to support technically and financially the organizational and functional modenization of the Third Sector:
Enlargement of online training supply addressed to NGO participants, spreading and normalizing the access to this educational methodology.
Yes, this is really really good news. From strategic...