Ruta de Innovación Social: Paso a paso para desarrollar innovaciones sociales (Documento Técnico 02).

Documento Completo.Este documento es una guía técnica para el equipo de diseño y tiene como alcance describir cada una de las etapas de la RUTA, sin abordar la explicación de las herramientas metodológicas que se pueden usar en cada una de ellas

Ruta de Innovación Social: Paso a paso para desarrollar innovaciones sociales (Documento Técnico 02).

Documento Completo.Este documento es una guía técnica para el equipo de diseño y tiene como alcance describir cada una de las etapas de la RUTA, sin abordar la explicación de las herramientas metodológicas que se pueden usar en cada una de ellas

TIC, educación ambiental y desarrollo sostenible : el caso de La liga del agua en las provincias del Guavio y Sabana centro, Cundinamarca

"Las TIC han demostrado tener un gran potencial para transformar la sociedad; por eso el enfoque de TIC para el Desarrollo ha impulsado su masificación global. Sin embargo, se identifican dos fallas en este enfoque: asume como lineal y universal el proceso de desarrollo, con la tecnología como actor clave, y carece de evaluaciones de impacto robustas... Desde este mismo enfoque, se analiza una tecnología de aprendizaje empleada para fortalecer la gestión comunitaria del recurso hídrico en varios municipios de Cundinamarca, con el fin de entender su impacto social tanto desde la perspectiva de los actores involucrados, como desde el uso de la tecnología. El estudio muestra que el contexto socio-económico y cultural de los usuarios afecta dramáticamente su interacción con la tecnología de aprendizaje y que, si bien el proyecto genera un impacto social en términos de gestión comunitaria del recurso hídrico, esto no está correlacionado con el uso de TIC." -- Tomado del Formato de Documento de Grado."ICTs have shown a great potential for transforming society and the ICT4D (ICT for development) approach has boosted its global masification. However, two flaws in this approach are identified: it assumes the development process is linear and universal, with technology as the key actor, and it lacks of robust impact assessments... From this same approach, a learning technology used to strengthen the community water resources management in several municipalities of Cundinamarca is analized, in order to understand their social impact from the perspective of the actors involved, as well as from the use of technology. The study shows that the socio-economic and cultural context of users dramatically affects their interaction with the learning technology and that, although the project generates a social impact in terms of community management of the water resource, this impact is not correlated with the use of ICT." -- Tomado del Formato de Documento de Grado.Magíster en Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre DesarrolloMaestrí

Participatory Action Research as a Methodology for the Development of Appropriate Technologies by Communities

The social and environmental development potential of countries like Colombia shows the need to articulate right from the communities, the processes and projects relevant to their territories. Furthermore when vital aspects of human health, such as access to clean water and water consumption, are also opportunities for the development of innovative technological solutions, stemming from the relationship between society and natural systems. In this context, a group of researchers together with a community of about 1,500 children and 15 teachers from schools of several towns in Cundinamarca department (Colombia) has been developing a technological platform founded on the community-based action research proposal of Ernest Stringer. This interactive technological platform, based on the use of SMS and the web, is called “La Liga del Agua”. It is a jointly constructed space where synergies between the different stakeholders around the proper use of water resources can arise, based on the self-recognition of wastewater problems on each of the participants’ homes. Thus, the problem approaches from the daily practices and the technological inefficiency, generating an empowerment of the water importance. The main theoretical foundation of this technological co-construction is based on the spirit of participatory and democratic systemic intervention, from the soft systems methodology of Peter Checkland, as well as the sociocultural vision of the community that, voluntarily, intend to solve a problem collectively, as suggested by Rusell Ackoff. In this article, we will show the jointly design process of “La Liga del Agua” platform and the incidence on the increase of the good practices of water resources usage. In addition, the results of the teaching strategies and recreational activities that seek to increase the empowerment by the actors and their interaction with the technology will be presented. To conclude, all the learnings of the proposal will be introduced, so it can be replicated on other contexts with environmental concerns