Hi to all

It is a good thing that we are able to keep communicating about TICs by
using TICs. That is what is all about, right?

I have appreciated what everyone has said. And, best of all, I am
communicating in English because I have learned that English is not only
the language of commerce but also the language in which most people from
the Caribbean are able to communicate. Being from Puerto Rico, where the
English language has been imposed for more than 100 years (but people still
do not speak English) and is still the language of colonialism, one has to
look at this language with caution and maybe that is why many people here
think that the right thing to do is to insist in Spanish. Certainly anyone
can understand that but we also know that English is also the language that
can open communication with other people in the Caribbean and, from this
point of view, a multilingual characteristic takes us, in a contradictory
fashion, closer to the Caribbean. I wish we could also communicate in
French so that we could also get in touch with that other Caribbean.

For me the experience of a multicultural and multilingual environment was
something out of this world. Thanks to you all. You don4t grasp the
Caribbean fully until you experience this. You can experience the
diversity, the richness of diversity. In a certain sense, you can feel
that we are different from each other, yet we are one, like my parrot at the
workshop that is made up of many colors yet it is only one bird who
discovers its uniqueness and its diversity by looking at itself at the
mirror. Was the workshop that kind of mirror? I believe so.

Thanks Daniel for making this happen and thanks to all who have been
communicating in whatever language they can what they are doing because we
can keep on learning and discovering ourselves. Our own website which is
starting to bring universities and community organizations together is
still a "Puerto Rican" project that emerged from a Caribbean-based one. It
is bound to become a Caribbean project of linking universities and
community organizations in the Caribbean. We are looking forward to a
workshop (in which Funredes will hopefully be involved) in Santo Domingo
next March to begin to make this idea a reality. You can alredy see the
website in the following address: www.uprm.edu/~laobradeldia/comunired.htm
Ideas are welcome!

If there is picture that really represents us all is the one below, not
only because Pedro represents our Caribbeanness, but also because it shows
us helping each other and making others happy. Vive le woz!!! Gracias!!!

Keep sharing.

Roberto
  
Nearby lun 06 sep 2004 20:41:53 AST