ICTlogy
Ismael Peña-López, lecturer and researcher
Information Society, Digital Divide, ICT4D
I am Ismael Peña-López.
I am professor at the School of Law and Political Science of the Open University of Catalonia, and researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute and the eLearn Center of that university.
My main research interests are the impact of ICTs in society (e-Readiness, the digital divide), especially in development (e-inclusion, ICT4D), and educational (e-Learning, digital competence) and political (e-participation, e-democracy) institutions.
23/05/2013
Moderator: Emily Taylor, Consultant, Non-executive Director Oxford Information Labs Ltd, Member of Multistakeholder Advisory Group at UN Internet Governance Forum.
Panelists: Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation; Yoani Sanchez, Journalist, Generation Y; Sang-yirl Nam, Research Fellow at the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI); Andrew Wyckoff, Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry ...
19/05/2013
El paso de un paradigma industrial a uno de informacional - digitalización de la información y las comunicaciones, globalización económica, creación de estructuras reticulares - cuestiona fuertemente las instituciones democráticas, creadas sobre la base de la necesaria intermediación para hacer más eficaz y eficiente el acceso (físico) al conocimiento a base de minimizar los costes de transacción. Estas instituciones - gobiernos, parlamentos, partidos, el poder judicial, los medios de comunicación, sindicatos y sociedad civil organizada - han visto cómo van perdiendo el monopolio de la información al mismo tiempo que aparece la posibilidad de una participación ciudadana desintermediada y descentralizada ...
12/05/2013 Tres años y mil recortes después
Professors Linda Castañeda and Jordi Adell have just published the book Entornos personales de aprendizaje: claves para el ecosistema educativo en red (Personal Learning Environments: keys for the networked educational ecosystem), the most comprehensive work to date on Personal Learning Environments in Spanish language and, arguably, one of the most comprehensive too in any language.
This book is a tremendous ...
After a long collaborative process of several months, the book Ciudadania y ONG (Citizenry and Nonprofits) has just seen the light. This has been a very interesting exercise of co-coordination along with Imanol Zubero, Carlos Giménez and Enrique Arnanz.
For the making of the book, the website CiudadaniayONG.org was used in two steps:
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