FUNREDES
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FUNREDES (acronym in Spanish for Fundación-Redes-y-Desarrollo, or Networks-and-Development-Foundation) was a non-governmental organization based in the Dominican Republic and dedicated to the dissemination of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the developing countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean.
It did so in collaboration with international organizations, NGOs, the States, administrations, and public or private institutions, with the objective of contributing to regional development and integration.
Since the early 1990s, FUNREDES's position has been that: "Internet for Development" is not about plugging and playing, chatting and surfing, getting information abroad, converging to one language, one culture and one market. On the contrary, it is more about empowering people and communities, collaborating and social networking, producing local content, and facilitating a diversity of languages, cultures and opinions.
Its goal is communication above technology not the contrary.''"
A pioneer ICT4D organization since 1988, FUNREDES was a member of APC since 2006.
The main area of activities of FUNREDES included:
- Creating national networks for research and civil society
- Linguistic diversity in the Internet
- Social impact of the Internet
- Virtual communities
- Digital literacy and information ethics
FUNREDES ended its existence as an NGO in May 2017, however, the program named Linguistic and Cultural Diversity on the Internet[1] is maintained and gained independent formal existence in 2021, maintaining on line also the Funredes site, including the library of the impactful MISTICA project (Methodologies and Social Impact of ICT in Latin America)[2] cited in [3] and [4], which, organized, within a virtual community, doted with pioneer multilingual facilities, the collective reflection and production of documents, such as[5] for the World Summit for the Information Society, or[6], a collective work of the virtual community of some 500 academics and social society players in the field of ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development).
References
[edit]- ^ "Observatory of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in the Internet". OBDILCI. 2024-08-16. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
- ^ "MISTICA project". MISTICA. 2025-02-02. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
- ^ "The Mistica Project: Social and Collaborative Work with the Internet, The International Information & Library Review, Volume 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 359-390, ISSN 1057 2317". IILR. 2025-02-02. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
- ^ "At the Boundaries of Ethics and Cultures: Virtual Communities as an Open Ended Process Carrying the Will for Social Change (the "MISTICA" experience) in Localizing the Internet - Ethical aspects in intercultural perspective Series: Schriftenreihe des ICIE, Volume: 4". BRILL. 2025-02-02. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
- ^ "Other side of the divide:Latin-American and Caribbean Perspectives on the WSIS". REDISTIC. 2025-02-02. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
- ^ "Working the Internet with a social vision, MISTICA virtual community" (PDF). FUNREDES. 2025-02-02. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
External links
[edit]- Funredes.org, with links to site in Spanish, English and French
- Observatory of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity on the Internet, in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
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