No próximo dia 13 de Dezembro realiza-se o Seminário “Observar a Sociedade da Informação em Portugal: Estado da Arte”, organizado pelo Instituto Nacional de Estatística, Conselho Superior de Estatística e Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento.

I found out about James Kariuki's blog today "Random reflections about elearning in Africa". James is also a CIARIS friend in that he was a shadow-facilitator in the STEP course of Strategies for combating social exclusion ...

And I recommend his blog!

Desde o Encontro de Outubro que tenho estado um pouco ausente do CIARISFRIENDS porque o último trimestre é sempre um pouco dificil, com muito trabalho.

I watched an interesting video recording of a "brown bag lunch" on client communities of practice at the World Bank.

I was interested to hear about this free book written under a Creative Commons license by a Danish hacker activist and his colleague: "Over a period of a few months, we have produced a complete book that documents our efforts to build wireless networks in the developing world." It is already in Spanish "Redes Inalámbricas en los Países en Desarrollo" and there are volunteers translating it into other languages.

Sorry to be so quiet. I have just returned from a Dialogue in Florence, Italy about Communities of Practice. It was a privilege and interesting to share stories and experiences with people who are working in this area in different parts of the world.

Well, our group had two distinct focusses for discussion so it was difficult to address specific ones in such a little time.

(We thought it would be better to create four groups for the whole group and threrefore, the discussion about facilitation was mixed with the one about communities, which didn't encourage the elaboration of precise recommendations.)

Having started with one specific question (how to monitor and evaluate the utility of CIARIS for the different actors involved in the fight against social exclusion at local level), the subsequent discussion in the group ended by addressing other topics.

Here are the five resulting recommendations:

This is what we said we got from our meeting in Lisbon. As comentários do que nos tirámos do encontro no Domingo: