Orientation of proposal

Implement tools to capitalise on and share innovative experiments in community and social uses of ICTs.

Context

In this still pioneering era, innovations in social and democratic uses of ICTs need to be shared so that lessons can be learned from both good and bad experiences. ICTs now provide tools that make this capitalisation possible (online databases, resource spaces, etc.).

Certain organisations have started this approach with success, e.g. Funredes in Latin America, often doing so on the sidelines of their activities, generally due to a lack of financial support for this type of activity. However, this task of collection, observation, evaluation and capitalisation can be useful for actors in both the public and private sectors and new partnerships could be formed between them.