[WSIS Edu] Acceptance of Community and Social Informatics text?

[Bill McIver]

All,

I ask consideration of the following text for inclusion in the Education 
part.
I am open to editing.

I already submitted this under a different section, but it does not
conform to the structure of the document and has been dropped.

I think it is most closely associated with the Education and Research 
section.


Thanks,

WJM


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(2)Role of CS in evolving the production of ICT:

So as to encourage social responsible evolution of information societies 
post-WSIS, the consultative and implementation processes of the ongoing 
CS mechanism make a proactive bi-lateral engagement between professional 
and academic communities most directly involved in the research, 
production, and design of ICT and  constituencies. In addition, the CS 
mechanism will include as a part of its research function, 
community-based education and capacity-building in ICT design and 
development issues. CS will encourage support from all sectors for 
research and policies that improve the development of ICT for 
communities. CS will support an evolving set of ICT production 
principles, including:

(a)Socially-aware design: The conception, design and use of ICT must 
originate from awareness of the social context in which they are to be 
used.

(b)Anti-technophilia and anti-tecnofetishism: CS will not assume that 
digital or advanced ICT are the best solution to all problems. It will 
encourage the view that designers must be open to non-technical 
solutions to problems as well as solutions that make use of older ICT 
where appropriate;

(c)Universal design: the design of ICT such that they can be used by the 
widest set of users, including: those with physical and cognitive 
disabilities, accounting for linguistic diversity; and accounting for 
other barriers.
(d)Participatory design, implementation, and operation: ICT should be 
designed, created, and used through continous involvement of the user 
community. (e)Capacity building: Communities must develop their own 
capacity to design, create, and operate their own ICT. This includes the 
capacity to apply principles (2) (a) and (b) above.




Meigs wrote:

>El texto de plenaria en su version en castellano
>Divina
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Bill McIver  
e-Government / e-Citizen Group
National Research Council Canada  Institute for Information Technology
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