Between July and August 2010 we had the first Focuss.Info experience in Bolivia. It has been the first workshop of its kind delivered in South America and the first in other language than English. Further down and clicking on other pages all information, materials and feedback is available for readers to check out, download and replicate in their own countries.

As a workshop facilitator I believe the experience contributes to expand information sharing, enhances the boundaries of collaboration and boosts an alternative approach for social research in developing countries.

We are now drafting projects for 2011. I have contacted people in Ecuador and Colombia who are very interested in delivering the workshop in their countries, I also want to have another workshop (this time away from La Paz, hopefully in a Peripheral town) as well as open activities for researchers and academics to approach and adopt open Social-Media-based tools in their daily work.

All the best for the year to come from Bolivia!

More feedback from participants

I want to share with everyone these two videos of participants of the latest workshop in Bolivia. If you go to the previous post, you will find the first video of the set.

Comments are welcome!

Feedback after second f2f session

We have sucessfully finished our first Workshop in Bolivia, the first in Latin America as well as the first experience Focuss.Info in Spanish. As a facilitator, did wanted to motivate participants' comments, critics and suggestions. Thus, I opened a facebook page (www.facebook.com/focussbo) where 99 people has joined us so far, and many participants are sharing docs, links and more.

Furthermore, I thought it was good to give them the mic and let them comment about their Focuss Experience, how they felt and what it should happen next. So, here you are, the first video: Pablo Aranda, lecturer and researcher. There are a few more to come (can't do it faster as conectivity is not helping and translation/subtitling is taking a while, but you will have them all eventually).

Segunda Sesión Presencial

La presentación de hoy

Segunda Sesión Presencial

View more presentations from Pablo Rivero.

La Paz: Second f2f session

In the last couple of weeks Focuss.Info workshop participants' have been testing new research tools, exchanging progressively information with peers and colleagues, as well as drafting ideas to be submitted later as projects for the Focuss Learning fund.

This Saturday we are gathering again in order to discuss the impact of the social media and Web 2.0 tools on their daily-basis work. Also, we will be reinforcing those aspects not well understood and expanding the horizon of applications and tools that enable us to share information and contribute to the construction of more effective "infostructures".

As usual, we will be posting on this Weblog the material and experiences coming out of the workshop. Unfortunately we will not be able to broadcast this workshop live but we are planning audiovisual material to be submitted afterwards. Moreover, there are social media tools that participants are using regularly to update their work and share information: please follow us on Twitter under the hashtag #focussbo or #FocussBo, and clic on "like" at our Facebook page www.facebook.com/focussbo.