Re: [liberationtech] Could you help me build a Tech for Social Good course syllabus?

2018-11-01 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
Techsoup is like an indigestion: US SBA employees get cheaper Microsoft products than ngos through that kind of soup! Regards / Saludos / Grato Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes > On Nov 1, 2018, at 4:08 PM, Jayne Cravens wrote: > > On the TechSoup forum, there is a branch called Public

Re: [liberationtech] Could you help me build a Tech for Social Good course syllabus?

2018-11-01 Thread Jayne Cravens
On the TechSoup forum, there is a branch called Public Computing, ICT4D, and Tech4Good [1]. There is a lot there you, or the students, might want to check out. http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community/f/16.aspx --- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Ms. Jayne Cravens MSc Portland, Oregon, USA

Re: [liberationtech] Could you help me build a Tech for Social Good course syllabus?

2018-11-01 Thread Yosem Companys
Hi Louis (and everyone else), Let's change the question to say that I'm interested in resources pertaining to everything you state below. I've decided that the best thing would be to collect all of the resources and put them online somewhere, probably on our new website. Speaking of which, the

Re: [liberationtech] Could you help me build a Tech for Social Good course syllabus?

2018-11-01 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
>>planning and building villages Yes! Le Corbusier comes to mind: Chandigarh, capital city of 2 Indian states! “Chandigarh, the capital of the northern Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, was designed by the Swiss-French modernist architect, Le Corbusier. His buildings include the Capitol

Re: [liberationtech] Could you help me build a Tech for Social Good course syllabus?

2018-11-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi— Yosem, are you interested in focusing on praxis or theory or history? Acknowledging here that one cannot rigorously separate the three, still—obviously--a course that looks at what has been done in the name of social good (by any party) and also what has actually worked (as evaluated by… )

[liberationtech] Could you help me build a Tech for Social Good course syllabus?

2018-10-31 Thread Yosem Companys
Hi All, I'm putting together a syllabus for a Tech for Social Good course, and I was wondering whether you or anyone you know have any syllabi or readings to recommend. The readings could be anything from published research to media articles. They can be seminal papers or just a good read. They