[p2p-research] How it goes with the wikipedia project

[carolina botero]

That will be great!!

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Caro,
>
> is it useful for me to report on this in the p2p blog?
>
> Michel
>
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 5:57 PM, carolina botero <carobotero at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I want to keep you all informed so, here it goes a small summary of the
>> project that we all know about.
>>
>>
>> THe project is called ESCUELA VIRTUAL DE DEPORTES (EVD)
>> http://www.deportes.gov.co/escuelavirtualdedeportes/
>>
>> This was thought initially as a traditional open virtual school devoted to
>> Colombian sports trainners to improve and share their knowledges on the idea
>> that this will improve some sports public policies especially related with
>> social and health issues, by using elearning strategies. However,
>> considering the web 2.0 capabilities some changes were mande and with the
>> introduction of open ideas (especially the OER concept to the content) they
>> realized the impact could go really beyond this initial audience and goal. I
>> will like to point out some things about this project:
>>
>> a. It is about sports, this gaves it a very broad and bottom up community
>> to work with that, is really a lot more than just education and trainners.
>> It has to be with many audiences: children, teachers, sport fans, small
>> practitians groups, leagues, etc. It has to be with education and sports,
>> but also with health, hobbies, social impact, public ideas in general
>> (funds, policies...) etc.
>> Surprisingly there is not that much of information on sports on the
>> Internet (especially in spanish) in the way the school is doing it so there
>> was certainly a niche to work with.
>>
>> b. Their contents were all licensed with ccbysa with the primary intention
>> to allow Internet dissemination especially through wikipedia
>> The EVD has already included a lot of content to wikimedia projects as you
>> can see in
>> http://es.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikilibros:Escuela_Virtual_de_Deportes
>> Or their content that is in wikimedia commons
>> The main idea is to build a community that will distribute this content
>> and use it for all purposes from trainning to what ever is good for them
>> (normal education curriculum, selflearning, etc). The idea is to provide
>> good quality material that can be modified and localized as people need (not
>> just Colombians and not just trainers).
>> Right now a bus is going around Colombian countryside showing the EVD and
>> the projects to see how different people could use the content
>> http://laexpediciondeportiva.blogspot.com/
>>
>> c. It is a public funded project (money has been until now from
>> Coldeportes, Colombian authority on this field) that wants to increase
>> impact through Internet, they want to effectively talk about public
>> resources being publicly available. Especially because they believe that
>> this strategy will work better on public policy goals for their special
>> sector, will guaranty preservation of the material even if they can not keep
>> the budget (Internet platforms will still host the content -wikipedia
>> especially-, community will continue using and updating the contents, etc,),
>> while they can focus on their main audiences (right now Colombian trainners
>> on the different sports and Colombian schools)
>>
>> In fact in the educational sector for instance, EVD (Escuela Virtual de
>> Deportes) is willing to have an impact on the sports field similar to that
>> of MIT OCW. Because the material could be used by schools and other
>> educational and training institutions even if they charge for their
>> services, they want it to be used, reused and increased by others relying on
>> open model structures.
>>
>> Soon not just the material will be out and circulating but the school will
>> have real "open courses" tha will be available even for self evaluation
>> (there will be guides to provide you with the tips to create your portafolio
>> of evaluation if you follow the course)
>>
>> Today´s goal is to be able to build a community that could develop it´s
>> own sosteinability environment for the content.
>>
>> d. This week the Campus Party (lan party that takes place for the 3rd year
>> in Bogota www.campus-party.com.co/campusblog.html) will start, I am in
>> charge of the web2,0 area, and there is a group of Colombian Wikipedians
>> that will be attending the event: we will have a workshop on editing content
>> and wikipedia, we will promote the wikimedia Colombian future group, we want
>> to increase colombian material in wikimedia projects (especially spanish
>> wikipedia) and we will do this by using the EVD content,
>>
>> For this purpose some contests will take place and Coldeportes is giving
>> away 5 prizes (tickets to events in Bogota) for assistants:
>> - to develop better tools to upload material to wikipedia (ie for groups
>> of movies),
>> - to improve access to the content (subtittles for the videos),
>> - to remix material,
>> - to improve spanish wikipedia content with the material.
>>
>>
>> As you see it is a nice project and not very common in this region, I am
>> know starting to do all to turn this into a special collection inside the
>> wikimedia projects and will need to arrange information to promote it..., so
>> please jump in if you can help. Teemu, how do you think I can proceed now on
>> the collection procedure?
>>
>>
>> carolina
>>
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