News from Bolivia
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 4:15AM Focuss.Info Bolivia has become a very intense experience and we haven't started the workshop yet!
Firstly, I introduced an application form (developed on Smartforms) in order to democratise the possibilities to participate as well as make it fairer for everyone interested in the Initiative.
We are now about the start the first online session and I also want to give participants the chance to suggest topics, vote for others' suggestions as well as share with everyone what tools they consider attractive and want to learn more about. Therefore, we have now a public space at Google Moderator (can be seen here or typing www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=2028d).
I just visited it, and "Terick" (don't know who exacly he/she is) has already suggested a couple of topics. Good thing about this tools is that suggestions and contributions can be read both in English and Spanish. This is great for those who in the future will visit the Weblog in Latin America, want to deliver the workshop but also it contributes to English speaking audiences.
I stressed on an email to participants that those are experiments, we all want to learn by doing and testing tools. I strongly believe, what's more, that this kind of spaces are very useful to test democratic exercises.
Finally, want to invite you to join tomorrow Friday 23th at 12:55pm (+1GMT or Spain time) the "Cosmobolitan" Barcamp - Barcelona 2010 (www.cosmobolitan.com) in which I will be talking via videostreaming a bit more about the Initiative Focuss.Info in Bolivia, the first Focuss workshop in Latin America and in Spanish.
If you are on Facebook, join us on http://www.facebook.com/pages/Iniciativa-FocussInfo-Bolivia/130002297035903.