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From Face to interface y de los latinonativos digitales
maolibrarian

El comienzo del #digitalnatives workshop denominado "From face to interface"ha estado sorprendente. La gente de CIS y Hivos con el apoyo de Rising Voices a logrado reunir 21 jóvenes de más de 10 países de Latinoamérica y el Caribe bajo un tema en común: los nativos digitales.

We start the DAY ONE (Identifying the Social and the Context) with an Ice Breaker Excercise in which we have to write a keyword that identify us and look between the other participants who have a related word.

La palabra que escogí fue infoactivism-o (activismo informacional o information activism) porque desde mi experiencia como profesional de la información (también se conoce como bibliotecólogo) me consciernen los asuntos que tienen relación con la información (registrada en cualquier soporte) en todos sus aspectos. En particular, los temas relacionados con derechos humanos, participación ciudadana en línea y acceso a la información en línea así...

¿LIBERTY AND EDUCACTION FOR A CORRECT ACCES?
Paola

Siempre pensamos que libertad con respecto a las tecnologías nuevas y viejas radica en el uso y acceso que tengamos a estas pero ¿cuántos realmente somos conscientes de los efectos que estas tienen en nuestra vida y en nuestra sociedad? El uso de nuestro libre albedrío para el consumo y la producción de información, y el tiempo que empleamos para esto debería, en el mejor de los escenarios, ir acompañado de una elección consciente e informada pero ¿estamos preparados para tomas estas decisiones?

From life to the inter-life
Estefania_Salazar

Being a curious person since I was little, I became an early user of the internet. But only during college studies (Journalism) I became a producer - meaning a regular publisher of content through the net.

But there was more to this life, after finding other people that -being producers- also serviced their surroundings and fellow men with the activities they were doing in the net in innovative ways, with a sense of community. Much more than just typing words in a keyboard. It can mean having the opportunity to educate, entertain or even pray, among other activities, by themselves or with others. Even to work on our societies most pressing issues, of which several examples already exist.

Having seen and read about such opportunities, I have been greatly interested on applying such practices. Blut frankly, along the way, I had seldom read o heard about the term "Digital Natives". When found, I did not always like it.

(video and more content pending)

Accesibilidad y apropiación de la información
elmorsa

Por Roberto y María del Mar

El primer paso tiene que ver con el acceso a la información y el conocimiento. Que las personas mismas aprovechen ese acceso.

En segundo lugar, viene el efecto multiplicador. Luego del acceso viene la apropiación, hacer suya la información y el conocimiento para de allí difundirlo.

Del otro, lado no solamente es la apropiación, sino también la posibilidad del que posee información y conocimiento lo haga accesible al resto.

Como, por ejemplo, este post: Podríamos haber escogido la opción de lectura privada, o solo para los miembros de este site. Sin embargo, depende de la voluntad de las personas hacerlo público y accesible a los demás.

Foto utilizada por Alvaro Ramirez. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvaroramirez/5158011786/ - Algunos derechos reservados (CC).

My life in five moments
fcoarellano

I’d like to present the story of my life in five moments. Though these images or moments are unable to explain the whole complexity of myself, they are able to tell a story of how i got involved in activism, digital activism and politics in general.

Born Digital
The first moment is at the age of 7, at home, when, together with my smaller brother we both watched and cheered at my father who was playing Prince of Persia on a ibm 286 computer.

Bubble Burst
At age 10 I was picked up by my mother from a friend’s house. She had just talked with my friend’s mother and she was very upset. She told me my friend’s mother was very sad and conserned, because her older son had decided to do the military service. So I asked my mother, isn’t everybody supposed to do the military service? She answered that people of our kind didn’t do it.

Self-consciousness
At school, probably at age 14, I needed to talk to a teacher, who was in a huge classroom, filled with...

Sharing, Autonomy, Observation
fcoarellano

Everybody had to pick a word which represented themself in the workshop, and then pair up three times with other people and talk about each other's word.

Mine was Common.

I had the experience of relating with Sharing, Autonomy and Observation.

Sharing is tightly related with Common. Common property is the kind of property we can share, modify, and distribute freely. That that is not common cannot be easily shared. More interesting, though, is the fact that certain kind of things realize their full potential when it is common, because it's own characteristics are that when it is shared it does not compromise in any way the possibility of the original bearer to enjoy and utilize that thing. This kind of things are called non-rival, and there are many examples of it, like knowledge, ideas, music, novels.

Those are just words
markun

So I've been walking around with some hacker autonomy.

Got some freedom to think and talk about the relations of left, right and commons.

We need more common ground! More public spaces! So that we can actually be autonomous.

We need to understand and get to know better this digital world wich is (and shall remain) a huge public space... 

 

And since education is the key to all the solutions... it's important that we learn (and teach, and share) that the web is made by people. That whenever you got an answer (right or wrong, doesn't matter) on Google... it was actually someone, somewhere who take the effort of putting it up online.

So whenever you ask something to Google, or the Web, or the Digital... you should always find a way to answer something back.