Archivo de 08 enero 2007
The Stockholm Challenge 2008 is launched and the search for excellent ICT for development projects has started. Over the next months the Challenge Secretariat will activate all its networks of people in the Challenge Community, to help bring in projects and programmes, groups and individuals - to participate in the Stockholm Challenge Award.
Many former finalists in the Stockholm Challenge Award have indicated their willingness to become advocates for others to take part in the programme with the aim for them to become finalists in their own right. As finalists they will have the opportunity to meet up with their social networking and entrereneurial peers for exhibitions and discussions during Challenge Week in May 2008 in Stockholm
Many former finalists in the Stockholm Challenge Award have indicated their willingness to become advocates for others to take part in the programme with the aim for them to become finalists in their own right. As finalists they will have the opportunity to meet up with their social networking and entrereneurial peers for exhibitions and discussions during Challenge Week in May 2008 in Stockholm
The Free Culture Network of Latin America & the Caribbean is an initiative of “Cultura Libre”, which is aiming to form a regional network of organizations and activists working towards integrating and strengthening The Free Culture Movement in the region. We aim to do the following:
* Minimizing the imbalance between the quantity of open content produced in English and that produced in Spanish, Portuguese and Native Languages. The initiative strengthens regional integration with the objective of producing and disseminating relevant open content on the region reality.
* Provide residential programs that enables successful initiatives to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability. Living and learning together, activists develop common conceptual skills and the sense of community that is essential for peer-to-peer collaboration.
* Increasing access to opportunities for youth in the Knowledge Society.
* Build awareness around freedom of expression, open access, free culture, creative commons and cultural diversity.
The Network can help these organizations and activists to better analyze their local realities and determine their issues from a wider perspective and work to effect change at policy, organizational and practical level, promoting actions to address challenges.
The importance of this attitude of thinking locally and regionally from a block perspective, as per the world trend, it is a new way of approaching regional integration and development.
We are working on the development of a network of organizations and activists whose thoughts cover the larger area of common interest. The diversity of perspectives and cultural differences is a not problem, there is a regional identity and the network will be a positive progress in this direction.
The initiative is open to organizations and activists from the region that share the same objetives.
We look forward to hearing from you.
* Minimizing the imbalance between the quantity of open content produced in English and that produced in Spanish, Portuguese and Native Languages. The initiative strengthens regional integration with the objective of producing and disseminating relevant open content on the region reality.
* Provide residential programs that enables successful initiatives to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability. Living and learning together, activists develop common conceptual skills and the sense of community that is essential for peer-to-peer collaboration.
* Increasing access to opportunities for youth in the Knowledge Society.
* Build awareness around freedom of expression, open access, free culture, creative commons and cultural diversity.
The Network can help these organizations and activists to better analyze their local realities and determine their issues from a wider perspective and work to effect change at policy, organizational and practical level, promoting actions to address challenges.
The importance of this attitude of thinking locally and regionally from a block perspective, as per the world trend, it is a new way of approaching regional integration and development.
We are working on the development of a network of organizations and activists whose thoughts cover the larger area of common interest. The diversity of perspectives and cultural differences is a not problem, there is a regional identity and the network will be a positive progress in this direction.
The initiative is open to organizations and activists from the region that share the same objetives.
We look forward to hearing from you.
