Jose Luis, Sounds like a great initiative. If you need any assistance from us to get it off the ground, let us know. You might also want to contact the folks at https://lists.accessnow.org/listinfo/redlatam to inform them as well.
Thanks, Yosem On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 6:42 AM, Jose Luis Mendoza Marquez < jluismend...@gmail.com> wrote: > Approach to reality: > At the Ibero-American level there are many civil society organizations > that are conducting independent research on the realities being > developed around the internet. Many of these investigations can be > circumscribed to a specific reality or need, being sometimes > commissioned and therefore, exhausted in the commission. This > research, carried out by capable people who represent an expenditure > of resources, could serve as an input for the academic world, which > has had in the region few approaches to the subject, considering it > still novel, within the rigor required by the standards of scientific > publications. This results in the need for a connection that allows > this material to arrive and be used by academics, allowing also the > replication and extension of these studies as is inherent to the > scientific world. > > Diagnosis of the problem: > There is a wealth of research and publications that are being > developed and do not reach the academic/scientific world, accustomed > to more traditional parameters that require some adaptation while > being, however, fully compatible and only requiring small adjustments. > In addition, the academic world develops its own inputs which it uses > in its research, thus creating two circles that do not communicate > with each other, and that could maximize the use of resources if they > feed into each other. > > The proposal: > The creation of a Latin American Center for Internet Research, with a > presence in Latin America, which would establish links with main > universities of countries of the region, thus allowing it to create > lines of research with working groups to orchestrate research in the > region, and also advise the various NGOs in ways to adapt their > publications and research so that they serve as an input for the > academic and scientific world. In addition, this Center would have its > own publications that would allow it to give a way out of the > scientific world to research that, having been born by commission, has > scientific value and usefulness. > > Finally, the creation of a Public Lecture that would publicize the > work of the research center through participation in academic events > such as congresses, forums, symposia, etc., whether organized by third > parties or by the research center itself. > > We have three clear lines of action; the first is a research center > with links with the main universities in the region, but without being > subject to only one, which allows autonomy of action, to develop lines > of research clearly defined with working groups in the various > universities. Second, the administration of various publications that > will allow the dissemination of the work carried out by the working > groups, as well as the product of research carried out by NGOs in the > region or independent researchers, providing inputs to researchers and > academics who seek to continue working on issues associated with the > internet. Finally, a Public Lecture that organizes and follows up on > its own academic events, as well as encouraging the participation of > the associated researchers in diverse events to expand the reach of > their investigations and contributions. > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/ > mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change > password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. >
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