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- Real People, Technology, And Collective Intelligence
- In this paper, we present some examples of socially-responsible projects developed in Mexico, while exploring the concept of 'collective intelligence' for the promotion of a socially-aware conscience in different contexts and environments. These examples include projects such as shoe-making workshops in rural areas, an indigenous multi-language on-line news agency, punk art in conflictive neighborhoods, sustainable rural community development in the mist forests of Veracruz, and a multimedia local news agency in popular urban neighborhoods. These projects are supported by open-source semantic database implementations and content management software. The term 'collective intelligence' comes from the idea that human communities share a common background that most people refer to as 'culture'. Intelligent individuals build this collective knowledge as a result of the accumulation of their own personal experience, function inside a community and local environmental conditions. Our efforts revolve around the implementation of current techniques and technologies, such as 'emergence' of complex systems and the Internet, in the creation, management, and sharing of collective intelligence in practical situations.
- Julius: An Open-Source System for Collective Intelligence Management
- One of the side effects of the current globalization process, is the loss of cultural and natural diversity throughout the planet. Many communities' cultural heritages, such as native languages, local cuisine, and traditions, are disappearing at the same time that a depredation of the natural resources is threatening with the extinction of many species, including humans. The project that we present in this paper, codenamed Julius, proposes the use of open-source information technology (e.g., Semantic Web, Web Content Management, and Social Networking Communities) to link the members of a community in an effort to preserve and encourage diversity, both cultural and natural. The current stage of the project targets minority communities that, due to various factors, lag behind in the general welfare offered by the society that they reside in. The main challenge of this work is to create technological and cultural islands, connected via the Semantic Web technologies implemented in Julius, that respect the local culture and without imposing external values. We address this challenge by keeping the project in the Free Open-Source Software spirit, allowing us to adapt the software to local, and even individual, cultural conditions. Each community is responsible for their own information, and the intellectual property is protected by using Creative Commons licenses.
- Creating a Code Of Conduct For Socially-Responsible Engineering For Appropriate And Appropriable Technologies
- In this paper, and believing in necessity-driven technological solutions, we present a few guidelines for the creation of a Code Of Conduct for people interested in socially-responsible engineering and science. The motivation for this Code Of Conduct is derived from work done with minorities and endangered communities in Mexico. Introduction of new technology must first consider the cultural and environmental surroundings, as well as the actual needs that drive its implementation. These guidelines are divided into three sections on how to interact with: Individuals, Communities and Technology. Inappropriate technologies, understood as those that do not correctly address specific community-driven needs, are often implemented in detriment of community's benefit. Appropriate technologies, in the other hand, try to use a sustainable and wise use of local resources. Technologies have to be appropriable, which means that local community has people and resources to accept, adapt, understand and sustain the new technology in the long range. These guidelines have the aim to support the development of both, appropriate and appropriable technologies.
- Evolutionary organization of sustainable communities in mexico (DRAFT)
- This paper analyzes the complexity existing sustainable communities, as well as describes the local context of Mexico in Latin America. It shows how a sustainable community is not a static system but a very rich, diverse, holistic, adaptable, and flexible system that should be manage based on humanistic principles that go beyond standard, business-oriented, managerial techniques. We consider an organization as a group put together on mutual agreement, cultural and social understanding of people and families, working towards specific goals and modifying themselves to all the changing factors around them. This is, in fact, an evolutionary systems that adapts itself.
- Creating common awareness through semantic information networks (DRAFT)
- This paper shows how human thoughts can be focus on the development of collective conscience within a community and transform semantic information into awareness. The impact of semantic databases is tremendous as for keeping cultural heritage of local communities, classification of natural resources, local human skills and force, daily events, historic facts, tales and legends. The construction of reliable semantic information may allow that future generations could look back in time and have access to a continuum of events and understand better the intricate network of connections for a better sustainable way of life. Understanding this highly complex information network demands high standards to a regular human brain capabilities, creation of improved and equal organizations and better management of resources, both natural and human, which allow us to think about the next steps on humanity's development.
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