Posts Tagged ‘change’

Invited by UNIA and Carlos Montes I will be chairing the 7th Forum Knowledge for Change to be held in Málaga, Spain from May 30-31th 2012. With the participation of Jaime Rodríguez, Mariluz Congosto, Cecilia Gañán de Molina, Ricardo García Vegas, Concepción Piñeiro, Dolors Reig, and Lourdes Soria, we will be preparing a one-page manifesto: Our purpose in the 7th Forum: getting answers on how networks affect global change.

Our goal is to understand how governments, institutions and companies respond to citizens empowered by virtual tools. For example, the case of communities providing services or goods as alternatives to lack of local, regional o national government provision or market failures. We are very interested in how social networks provide channels for changes, mobilization of citizens, companies or customers, from the perspective of each participant. We are interested in cases of governments putting place new and inclusive strategies using social networks. And I myself am also interested on how the type of network mediates the kind of exchange we get –something with further applications, for instance on energy networks. We also welcome open ideas and contributions with the hashtag #redesycambio on Twitter.

A wiki on Hackpad and Twitter-labeled hashtag #redesycambio, will allow us to work collaboratively and openly in order to advance preparation for the face to face work in Malaga. Additionally the content on Twitter, labeled # redesycambio, allow us to pick up the buzz before and after the event. Beside, we kindly invite RTs.

To make possible the idea of ​​a Tweet-Manifest, proposed by Carlos Montes, and to measure the impact, we have set up a window in Storify and the experiment available here prepared Mariluz Congosto. The Mariluz experiment maps and measures the conversation emerging before and after the meeting in Málaga.

As sources to start working we are suggesting: Manuel Castells [in Spanish], James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis [English].

Together with the participants mentioned, we are informing people we consider relevant, and we welcome open participation, since we are interested in global and multifaceted perspectives: social, political, and economic perspectives. If current global challenges may find answers and positive commitments from all sources we are also committed to try to detect and map them in the 7th Forum. Please find here the official programm.

Más allá de la situación que el mundo atraviesa en estos momentos resulta interesante estar atentos a las propuestas de creación de valor en tiempos de crisis. El tema no es fácil de abordar, ya que las fuentes que estoy encontrando son limitadas. La mayor parte de los análisis ponen énfasis en el deterioro de la situación. También recogeré fuentes sobre esta cuestión. Pero comencemos por la parte creativa y las alternativas. Una reflexión de Hal Varian, CFO de Google sobre le mundo que viene dentro de las empresas.