The user always is the center of the concerns of FUNREDES, as the methodology specifies, which lays the priority on its paricipation in all constitution and formation steps of investigation networks.

As you can read in our publications, the potential of the human and social development of the NICT would be much easier if the user was the center of the processes and not the technic itself; and if they were confronted directly with the tools, lowering the barriers through a special attention on user formation and the quality of the communication interface.

The mesurement of success of an investigation network is done much easier with the number of active users and privileged people than with technical aspects. See the debate about users in The Caribbean.

Selection of publications:

To recognize and integrate the users in conceptual models:

• "Integrating users and services of computer communication", 1993 (In "A new way to communicate the knowledge", pp171-182 UNESCO/CRESALC, 11/1993)
• "A conceptual model for the analysis of the potential telecommunication service marked" ,1992 (from P. Liendo. In "Quality, Technlology and Globalisation in the Superior Education of Latin America", UNESCO/CRESALC, pp493-512 7/1992 .)
• "To integrate the academic community of Latin America: A chance for telecommunication networks", from D. Pimienta in the book "Quality, Technlology and Globalisation in the Superior Education of Latin America", pp331-367. UNESCO/CRESALC, 7 1992
• The user training: Opening the bottleneck of the INTERNET, 1994
• Where is the user?, 1993

The user and his/her environment

 
• "The information administration in an abundance environment: The diabetic informatics"
• The new communicational environments, 1996

Participation in conferences

 
• "Overview of Communication options from the user point of view", in Telecommunications options for the 90's, IFLA Worshop, La Habana 1994
• "Diabetes informaticus". First national days about biomedical information, Caracas, Venezuela, 11/93, P. Liendo