FUNREDES and the INVESTIGATION about the socialcultural and economic impacts of the New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT)

Because FUNREDES is an active and reflexive organization (implementing the concept of the incremental design), all our projects maintain a strong component of investigation about possible and wishful impacts of the NICT (See REDALC and TELESINERGIA)

In its folder of defined projects FUNREDES has one of "The first international Workshop of Reflexion about the INTERNET phenomenon: its impact about the Countries in Development"

Here are some results from our investigations:

• about NICT and development in the sector joined with investigation, described in
  • "The Communication via computers: a hope for the scientific sector of the third world", which was a result of the REDALC project
• its effects on the users:
  • "The impact of the Networks" (1992) First presentation of D. Pimienta in the GULERPE conference, Caracas, 5/92.
  • The new communication environments (1996)
• About other languages than English in the INTERNET:
  • Risks and opportunities for latin languages and cultures in the field of the new information society (1995), Conference of D. Pimienta for the round table "Francophonology and Spanish", in the 'Casa de Francia', Santo Domingo, 3/95.
  • Study about the presence of the French language and culture in the INTERNET (1996)
• about NICT and development:
  • "Perspectives of the NICT in the South", discussion of a communication medium of Argentina, 1994
  • "Internet prospects in the South: Simple questions, complex issues", D.Pimienta and S. Jansen, Internet Society News, Vol. 2 No 4, 1994.

Some more talks and papers available:

• "The paradoxical space of the cultures and languages in the global information society" , conference of D. Pimienta in the second meeting of cultural operators of The Caribbean, Santo Domingo, 12/94.
• "Information Technology for Small and Medium Enterprises", Meeting IDRC, Montevideo, Uruguay. 12/93. Participation of Pimienta, D..
• XIX Latino American Congress of Sociology, Caracas, 30/5- 4/6 ,1993. Participation of D. Pimienta and P. Liendo in the working group about the impact of the NICT.
• "The telecommunication for the service of the regional integration", Conference of Y. Khelladi in the fourth regional cientifical meeting "villages and Caribbean States: cooperation and integration", Santo Domingo, 11/94.