Dear friends,

Recently aware of your iniciative and eager to contribute to a better understanding of the challenges and posibilities of the so called Knowledge Society, I would like to let you know of two projects who conceive the use of blogin to generate networks of participative conscience on different issues of social participation in which I have been part. One is LINC which stands for “Laboratorio de Inteligencia Colectiva” (you know, we use Spanish as lingua franca in this South…), and was a somehow successfull -and still unique by the time- experience, to establish free ways of expression and colaborative thinking between people working in different areas of the public administration in charge of the social protection program Chile Solidario. There you´ll find lots of entries on issues of social protection and TIC´s and some twenty links to other blogs who were being created on time and conform a network still active in at least a region of the country, altough the initiative was not “fully” comprised by the central administration… but that lead to another conversation on politics. Then, there´s our actual initiative using the same open media and still in social protection and technologies but from the private sector this time (8th Millenium Goal). Both links to this material could be accesed next. Needless to say that we´ll be very gratefull for your visit and coments. Please don´t hesitate to contact and make any question you want.

www.vc-on.blogspot.com

www.siischilesolidario.blogspot.com

Best Regards,

Rainer.

Nous avons récemment eu une discussion sur ce thème. Internet - et ce n’est pas une nouveauté dans un monde globalisé - est avant tout un outil unilingue. L’anglais s’impose partout sans partage. Peut-on croire que les outils Web2 vont promouvoir de nouvelles voix?
J’aimerais beaucoup entendre sur la question des outils web2 et de leur impact potentiel les voix de nos amis hispanophones, francophones, lusophones, hindi… Pourquoi ne pas imaginer un blog Babel où chacun pourrait rapporter ou commenter dans sa langue ce que les autres ont écrit dans un autre idiome?
Une autre de mes questions en suspens est la dimension humaine et sociale des outils web2. J’aimerais vraiment trouver des illustrations qui nous expliquent comment ces outils révolutionnent notre manière de considérer le “développement” et comment concrètement ils sont porteurs de changements sociaux sur le terrain.