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the Latin American digital navel
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via e-rgonomic: human web interaction [Cristóbal Cobo Romani] Cristobal Cobo on 23/06/2008
[Flash On Digital Natives 
developed by Clarin of Argentina *]
Costa Rica is the Latin American digital navel. What I saw during the days of my visit to this country, in which I was surprised with what I saw. Having met with the Commission
Ministry of Public Education (MEP) and members of the Omar Dengo
Foundation (the latter, thanks to a successful suggestion
Alejandro Piscitelli ), I know the strategies that "Ticos" they're up to promote the development of e-skills
To contextualize the issue, it is important to mention programs to incorporate technology into the classroom in Costa Rica have been around for 20 years (1988!). This coupled with the arrival of two giants of the technology industry in Costa Rica, ie Intel Hewlett Packard (
example), has generated interesting effects in the Costa Rican society. Some examples are: training and demand for engineers with high professional standards, increase employment and wages related to ICT, explosion of a series of satellite services to software and hardware industry, export of skilled personnel abroad, collaboration private sector programs to boost technology during the school years, among others.
The circle does not stop there, the people of MEP explains that today the demand for skilled labor is greater than the number of engineers, programmers and IT specialists who graduate from universities (!). As Friedman explains in
World is Flat,
call centers that provide technical support around the world in countries like India and Costa Rica are a great example of globalized services where the location is the least relevant issue. Aware of this situation, the MEP article (which is something we do not always get to see) a series of educational initiatives to address cross-cutting manner the demands of a market increasingly demanding and competitive around ICT.
people in meeting with Omar Dengo Foundation, I had the opportunity to experience a sort of Latin American FutureLab . This NGO is the "executive arm" in education and technology. One of the things that struck me is that the theme of "digital literacy" really take it seriously. Here the goal is not achieved simply that children know how to use Microsoft Office and Internet ("that's just part of office", say) but that efforts are focused on providing tools for children and teens to create their own devices . What does that mean? Children who learn to program (MicroWorlds) and to developments in robotics, among other things. Here is a brief description:
Micromundos : multimedia tool, aimed at children 6 to 12 years, which allows you to create projects incorporating movies, pictures, sounds, graphics, text and animation. Logo Uses language and allows students to learn by exploring and creating, developing creativity, problem-solving ability and critical thinking, among others. [+ Info ].
Robotics : Discipline that studies the design and construction of machines capable of performing repetitive tasks. It is the result of the combination of disciplines such as algebra, programmable controllers, state machines, mechanics, electronics and informatics. [+ Info ].
I returned quite surprised with what I've seen in Costa Rica. These stories make me think that even in the region are carrying out substantial progress, but as Gibson says, have not been distributed properly.
[* I hope this acalaración sufficient.]
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The circle does not stop there, the people of MEP explains that today the demand for skilled labor is greater than the number of engineers, programmers and IT specialists who graduate from universities (!). As Friedman explains in
World is Flat,
call centers that provide technical support around the world in countries like India and Costa Rica are a great example of globalized services where the location is the least relevant issue. Aware of this situation, the MEP article (which is something we do not always get to see) a series of educational initiatives to address cross-cutting manner the demands of a market increasingly demanding and competitive around ICT.
people in meeting with Omar Dengo Foundation, I had the opportunity to experience a sort of Latin American FutureLab . This NGO is the "executive arm" in education and technology. One of the things that struck me is that the theme of "digital literacy" really take it seriously. Here the goal is not achieved simply that children know how to use Microsoft Office and Internet ("that's just part of office", say) but that efforts are focused on providing tools for children and teens to create their own devices . What does that mean? Children who learn to program (MicroWorlds) and to developments in robotics, among other things. Here is a brief description:
Micromundos : multimedia tool, aimed at children 6 to 12 years, which allows you to create projects incorporating movies, pictures, sounds, graphics, text and animation. Logo Uses language and allows students to learn by exploring and creating, developing creativity, problem-solving ability and critical thinking, among others. [+ Info ].
Robotics : Discipline that studies the design and construction of machines capable of performing repetitive tasks. It is the result of the combination of disciplines such as algebra, programmable controllers, state machines, mechanics, electronics and informatics. [+ Info ].
I returned quite surprised with what I've seen in Costa Rica. These stories make me think that even in the region are carrying out substantial progress, but as Gibson says, have not been distributed properly.
"The future is here. It's just Evenly Distributed Not yet. "[William Gibson, science-fiction writer].
Recommended Links: See other projects of the Foundation Omar Dengo .
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Friday, July 11, 2008
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Facebook claims 59 million active users, including 7 million in the United Kingdom, the third customer for size of Facebook after the U.S. and Canada. According to Hodgkinson would be naive 59 million of whom have volunteered their information from the ID card and consumer preferences to an American business they know nothing. At present two million more are added every week. At this rate, Facebook will have more than 200 million active users in these days of next year. Among the user groups have "A Million Voices Against FARC" (130,000 enrollees), "A thousand people who hate Hugo Chavez" (1,300 subscribers) and "Me too I see dead to the FARC "(8,200 users), which gives an idea of \u200b\u200btheir ideological line in relation to Colombia. One usually receive e-mail a message like the one up here, on behalf of a friend with good intentions (and without knowing what that means) invites you to register and participate in Facebook. According 
need a dedicated source who requested anonymity, it was discovered that Facebook is a military weapon of espionage and destabilization created by the most extreme right (the sinister "neocons" or neoconservatives) to capture user information and manipulate geopolitical and strategic purposes. In the commercial exploitation and consumerism, as The Guardian, están comerciantes sin escrúpulos de Silicon Valley, Coca Cola, Microsoft, Blockbuster, Sony Pictures, Verizon y Conde Nast, entre otras más.
need a dedicated source who requested anonymity, it was discovered that Facebook is a military weapon of espionage and destabilization created by the most extreme right (the sinister "neocons" or neoconservatives) to capture user information and manipulate geopolitical and strategic purposes. According to the source, Facebook involved all 16 intelligence agencies of the United States, beginning with the CIA, the Pentagon and the Department of Defense. "Everything we collect and store everything. Nothing is missed: photos, emails, conversations, pictures, music, etc. .. With that establish a" profile "," psycho-socio-political context of each subject and thus keep you targeted. Once you enter, and do not let you go, and if you do, all your private information is there. "
| " does not take much brains to join the group and always encourage you to recruit more 'friends'. Vouchers, he adds the number of 'friends' that you recruit. Not for nothing are the United States and Canada and the United Kingdom had the most subscribers, "casually keeping more troops occupying Iraq and Afghanistan. Facebook is a well-funded, behind him is a group of venture capitalists Silicon Valley, with a clearly defined ideology reflected in your site and hope to spread throughout the world. As PayPal before, it is a social experiment, an expression of a particular kind of neoconservative. In Facebook, you can be as free as you want if you do not mind bombarded with advertisements for the biggest brands in the world. As with PayPal, national boundaries are a thing of the past.
Although the project was originally designed by the star of the covers in the media Mark Zuckerberg, the real person behind Facebook is the venture capitalist and futurist philosopher of Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel.Sólo three members of the board of Facebook, and they are Thiel, Zuckerberg and a third investor called Jim Breyer from a venture capital firm called Accel Partners. Thiel invested $ 500,000 in Facebook when Harvard students Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz went to see him in San Francisco in June 2004, shortly after launching the site. Thiel is said that now owns 7% of Facebook, which according to the present value of 15,000 million dollars, would be over 1,000 million. Thiel is widely regarded in Silicon Valley and the scene of the U.S. venture capital genius as a liberal, in the economic sense of the term. He is cofounder and president of virtual banking system PayPal, which sold to EBay 1,500 million dollars, personally pocketing 55 million. He also runs a hedge fund of 3,000 million dollars called Clarium Capital Management and a venture capital fund called Founders Fund. Bloomberg Markets magazine recently called him "one of the most successful managers of hedge funds in the country." He has made money betting on rising oil prices and by correctly predicting that the dollar would weaken. He and his fellow offensive wealth of Silica Valley have recently been rated "PayPal Mafia" by Fortune magazine, whose reporter also observed that Thiel has a uniformed attendant and a $ 500,000 McLaren supercar. But Thiel is more than a clever and avaricious capitalist. Is a futurist philosopher and neocon activist. Graduated in philosophy from Stanford, is co-author in 1998 of a book called "The Myth of Diversity", all detailed to attack liberalism and the multiculturalist ideology that dominated Stanford. He stated that the "multicultural" implied a reduction of individual freedoms. While a student at Stanford, Thiel founded a rightwing journal, still exists, called The Stanford Review. Is TheVanguard.Org also a member of a neoconservative pressure group that operates on the internet and was set up to attack MoveOn.org, a liberal pressure group that works on the network. Thiel is described as "very liberal" on economic expression of the term. TheVanguard is led by Rod D Martin, a philosopher-capitalist whom Thiel greatly admires. The following excerpt from their website will give an idea of \u200b\u200bhis worldview: "TheVanguard.Org is an online community of Americans who believe in conservative values, free markets and limited government as the best means to bring hope and growing opportunity for all, especially the poorest among us. Its aim is to promote policies that reshape the U.S. and the globe. "The Vanguard describe his policies as" Reaganite / Thatcherite ". The message from the president says: "Today we will teach MoveOn, Hillary and the leftist media some lessons they never imagined." Clearly, Facebook is another experiment supercapitalism: can earn money with friendship? Can you create communities free of national boundaries and then sell Coca-Cola? The third member of the board of Facebook is Jim Breyer. He is a partner of the venture capital firm Accel Partners, which invested $ 12.7 million for Facebook in April 2005. Also a member of the board of U.S. giants Wal-Mart, a distinguished record of worker abuse and Marvel Entertainment. He was also president of the National Venture (NVCA). This is the kind of people who cause many of the U.S. economic developments because they invest in new young talents, and people like Zuckerberg. The most recent capital of Facebook was run by a company called Greylock VentureCapital, which invested the sum of $ 27.5 million. One of the main partners of Greylock is called Cox, another former president of the NVCA, who is also on the board of In-Q-Tel. What is In-Q-Tel? Well, believe it or not (and check their website) is the venture capital wing of the CIA. After the 11-S, the community of intelligence is so excited about the possibilities of new technology and innovations being made in the private sector, which in 1999 established his own venture capital fund, In-Q -Tel, which "to identify and are associated with companies that develop technologies forefront of helping to deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the Intelligence Community (IC) U.S. to advance their missions. " The U.S. defense department and the CIA love technology because it facilitates espionage. "We must find new ways to deter new adversaries," said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2003. "We have to make the leap into the information age, which is the critical foundation of our transformation efforts," he added. The first president of In-Q-Tel was Gilman Louie, who served on the board of the NVCA with Breyer. Another character key equipment In-Q-Tel team is Anita K Jones, former director of research and design of defense for the U.S. defense department and - with Breyer - board member of BBN Technologies. When he left the U.S. Department of Defense, Senator Chuck Robb paid her the following tribute: "She and technology communities and the military operation to design detailed plans to sustain U.S. dominance on the battlefield in the next century. " Stars and Stripes However, while not accepting the idea that Facebook is a sort of extension of the imperialist agenda American crossed with a massive instrument of data collection, there is no way to deny that as a business, it is pure mega-genius. Some naive of the network have suggested that its valuation of 15,000 million dollars is excessive, but the journalist from The Guardian Tom Hodgkinson to be too modest. According to him its growth potential is virtually unlimited. "We want everyone to use Facebook," says the impersonal voice of Big Brother on the Web site It is Facebook's enormous potential that led Microsoft to buy 1.6% of 240 million dollars. A recent rumor says that Asian investor Lee Ka-Shing, who is said to be the ninth richest man in the world, has bought 0.4% of Facebook for $ 60 million. So that all this is what's behind the "spontaneous" Internet mobilization against the FARC and CIA money. The usual. Birthday Cake Ideas Runners
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