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During this RSA presentation (starts on 11:00), lecturers make an analysis on where technology is transforming our society.  Some remarkable affirmations: "We decided to put all our information into a big grey box, and hope nobody is looking in." "Every single human being here has access to the internet" "Technology improves individual capacity more than social" "Teach people not answers, but how to ask questions" "We can't leave people off the hook" "Data, information and knowledge are different levels. We should slow down to learn/teach how to make questions" Despite all this progress we still have a lot of things to do, such as, improving security.  And also to reshape our mentality and our culture of sharing. We also should include and consider each and every individual to get the benefits of technology. As they mention during the QA, there has to be areas where designers and users can com

Well, so Kids supporting kids is ON! This is about involving kids on a collaboration network. It is not only asking them "to give something for poor people", it is about letting them know who, where and why. We should do something with a purpose, and as a collaborative action  this is a reciprocal donation. Actors: - Donors: kids from a school in Riobamba, Ecuador [1] - Receiver: kids from Guayaquil, scholars at The Starfish Foundation I talked to donors so that they understood what TAMOJA was doing and why it was being done. We all know the statement "Children are the future". What does it exactly means? The future "what"? They should first know their present, to become the integral professionals in the future. As the MDG by achieving primary education, demand for secondary education grows, and so knowledge-sharing that may reduce social divides. What we did was to connect with children so that they realized there are other "stars" wi

It's been over six years now that I started with the international cooperation for human development experience. And, what is it all about?. Well, for me, it means human beings supporting other human beings. Human development should not mean anything else. Setting that idea as a basis, everything is possible, because you are supporting yourself.  Different experiences, with such interesting  people have helped me to shape what I call "my dream", contributing with my knowledge to human development. Is that possible? Education is indeed one of the most important elements of the human development process and technology is a powerful tool that helps to achieve the universal education in the information era. But education is not only memorizing things by heart, it is not only a teacher giving a lecture to their students, it is not even googling and copying...it is an integral process, that requires the whole society to be involved in. Parents, neighbors, educators, ki

Well, now released the 2013 HDR. A must-read. Check out where in the rank your country is. For this year's report, Norway is in first place and Zimbabwe is the last one. Still many differences, many things to do so far. Do you think we should get involved in getting a better world? I think so. Small actions can make a difference. 2012 has been a quite dynamic year for me, I have been living in 3 countries, whose HDI are: United States 3 Spain 23 Ecuador 89 You can find your country here  http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR2013_EN_Statistics.pdf I also recommend chapter 2: A more global South, where they made a thorough analysis on how the world is changing in terms of human development  http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR2013_EN_Chapter2.pdf  . Is the North becoming the new South?

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A los católicos nos dicen que un papa, es un ser humano elegido por el señor para representarlo en la Tierra. Un católico,se lo cree. Pero entonces, un día el papa dice: renuncio. Oiga, que usted no ha elegido ser papa, le ha elegido el señor. Y ahora nos pedirán que oremos por su decisión. No sé. No sé. Y claro, con semejantes situaciones, sin mencionar la pecaminosa pederastia, nos quejamos de que se rían de los católicos. Pero si el mayor representante renuncia!! Puede tener buenos y respetables motivos, pero entonces, el catolicismo debería renovarse a los tiempos que corren y dejar de decir que es un representante directamente elegido por "el señor". La fé no debería tener un representante político, mi fe es mia. Ahora, como por naturaleza lo politizamos todo, pues politizamos la religión, pero hay que tener muy en cuenta que el representante es una persona, un ser humano, no dios. Un dirigente político, tiene derecho a renunciar a su cargo, bien por no sentirse ca

Habrán notado que hemos empezado un nuevo año. ¿Hemos cambiado? ¿Nos propusimos algo? ¿Soñamos? Cada día me levanto motivada, pensando en mis sueños, en que los sueños son nuestros y por tanto, si fuimos capaces de soñarlos, somos capaces de hacerlos realidad. Esta entrada es sobre los sueños que vendrán y los que se materializarán este 2013. "Contribuir con mi conocimiento adquirido al marcharme al desarrollo del Ecuador". Ha sido una de mis respuestas cuando me preguntaban lo que me interesaba de la cooperación al desarrollo. Mientras aún estudiaba Ingeniería Informática en la UPM, tuve la oportunidad de trabajar como voluntaria cooperante  en Ecuador. Pues vine, vi y escribí mi sueño. Lo soñé. Regresé y me repetí la frase que era sueño. Participé en la ONU y aprendí la cooperación a gran escala. Maduré y ese no era el camino. He vuelto, unos cuantos años después con la diferencia de que ahora vivo el sueño. Me encuentro enmarcada en un proceso de doctorado, imparto c