Quisieramos poner en conocimiento de Uds. que Daniel
Pimienta ha sido aceptado como nominado al prestigioso
NAMUR AWARD 2008.

Creemos que es muy merecida esta nominacion por toda la
trayectoria de Daniel, y que ademas es muy importante
para la visibilidad internacional de la Comunidad Virtual
MISTICA.

El enfoque corresponde muy bien a lo que esta CV tiene
como cometido, y la trayectoria y vision de Daniel
en relacion al tema:

"The Namur Award is a biennial award to be accorded for
an outstanding contribution with international impact to
the awareness of social implications of information
technology. The purpose is to draw attention to the
need for an holistic approach in the use of information
technology in which the social implications have been
taken into account. The Namur Award consists of a
commemorative plate and a certificate. "

Senaida Jansen es quien ha ofrecido la nominacion en
representacion de Funredes y de MISTICA:
http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~jbl/IFIP/award.html

Le deseamos lo mejor a Daniel en esta nominacion,
que el Equipo de Transición de la CV Mística apoya,
y esperamos un exitoso desenlace tal cual su
trayectoria y trabajo se lo merece.

Equipo de Transicion de MISTICA

PD: Adjuntamos extractos del intercambio de
mails con los detalles de la nominacion.

>From: Jacques Berleur
>To: senaida jansen
>Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 3:34 PM
>Subject: Re: NAMUR AWARD 2008:
>D Pimienta Nomination
>
>Many thanks for your proposal that I found on the
>email during my presence last week at the Internet
>Governance Forum in Athens, and that I find today
>as a hard copy in my office.
>I'll submit your proposal to the IFIP-WG9.2
>Namur Award Committee. Many thanks again,
>Jacques Berleur
>
>Prof. Jacques BERLEUR
>Institut d'Informatique
>Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix
>NAMUR
>BELGIUM
>
>
>Dear Sir:
>Bearing in mind that NAMUR AWARD is given for an
>outstanding contribution with international impact
>to the awareness of social implications of information
>technology, I hereby nominate Dr. Daniel Pimienta to
>the NAMUR AWARD 2008.
>...
>The reasons for the nomination are the following:
>Daniel Pimienta, as a representative of Fundación
>Redes y Desarrollo (Networks & Development Foundation)
>-FUNREDES[1]; and the Metodología e Impacto Social
>de las TIC en América Latina y el Caribe -MISTICA-
>virtual community[2] has made, since 1988, a pioneering,
>long, deep and, in many aspects, innovative contribution
>to the awareness, sensitization and education of the
>social implications of Information and Communication
>Technologies in Latin America, the Caribbean and beyond.
>
>The following document of his conception, "The hurdle
>track from ICT to Human Development"[3] is also the product
>of a continuous process of collegiate thinking inside
>FUNREDES and of collective knowledge creation within
>MISTICA. The scheme has the capacity to expose in a
>graphic, pedagogic and powerful manner the essence of
>a work dedicated to the message that Information
>Societies (shared knowledge societies as our group
>prefers to name them) are NOT a simple question of
>technology but rather of paradigmatic change.
>This short document is the reflect of many actions
>and reflections of real impact which falls within
>the scope of the Namur Award.
>Supporting information

>The arguments developed in this 3 pages document are
>deep and elegant enough to easily counter the simplistic
>view of the Digital Divide as a question of mere access
>and to convincingly shed light on the essential educative,
>ethical and participative social aspects. It is indeed the
>result of years of research-action in the field, with a mix
>of thinking and experimenting with innovative and process
>oriented approaches, some of which are presented hereafter.
>The Latin American and Caribbean Networks REDALC[4] project
>(which in a pioneering way since 1990 has stated most of the
>concepts of modern ICT4D and announced more than 10 years
>in advance the principles of CLARA Network[5]), including
>the MULBRI[6] interface (one of the first user agents for
>networks in a PC and the first with multilingual capacity)
>and the related national Research and Civil Society
>networks of Peru (RCP), Dominican Republic (REDID) and
>Haiti (REHRED) in the early years (1988-1995).
>
>And for more recent actions:
>Social Impact of ICT Observatory[7]
>Civil society organizations collaboration mechanism[8]
>Caribbean Information Societies and cultural diversity[9]
>National Sensitization of ICT social implications[10]
>
>The "Hurdle track" synthesizes the ideas of many reflections
>and may lead non ICT4D specialists to the reading of a
>genuine collective document produced by MISTICA in 2002
>and having been illustrated in 2004 in an attractive
>fashion, coherent with the regional culture: "Working
>the Internet with a social vision"[11].
>
>This could be considered as a model in terms of the
>message the Namur Award wants to convey to the public
>and deserves more international exposure.
>
>The "Hurdle track" concept also emerges from an original
>collective experiment of a community of specialists worried
>by the social implications of ICT who try to imagine an
>utopical Information Society as an input to the World Summit
>of Information Society.
>See UTOPISTA[12] and the resulting multimedia
>(Spanish only)[13].
>
>The fact that the "Hurdle track" document has been created
>in three languages is symptomatic of a constant preoccupation
>for cultural and linguistic diversity in all the process,
>FUNREDES having been also a pioneer in this domain (see the
>Observatory of Languages and Culture in the Net[14] and
>experiments with on line translations in virtual
>communities[15]).
>
>I must add that Dr. Pimienta is a hard worker with
>outstanding ethical values and practice. He is a mixer
>and a team leader and he has published many texts on the
>subject which is of interest of Namur Award (please see
>his CV[16]).
>For all these reasons I unreservedly recommend him for
>the NAMUR AWARD 2008.
...
>Senaida Jansen
>Paris, France
>October, 30, 2006
>Signature:
>(A signed copy of this letter is being sent by ordinary mail)
...
>[1] http://funredes.org
>[2] http://funredes.org/mistica
>((Methodologies and Social Impact of ICT in Latin America)
>[3] http://funredes.org/english/publicaciones/index.php3/docid/469 [4]
>http://funredes.org/funredes/html/english/redalceng.htm
>[5] http://www.redclara.net/
>[6] http://funredes.org/ftp/DOCumentos/IFAZ-WW-E-93-MULBRI.TXT
>[7] http://funredes.org/olistica
>[8] http://redistic.org
>[9] http://cardicis.org
>[10] http://socinfodo.org.do
>[11]
>http://funredes.org/mistica/english/cyberlibrary/thematic/eng_doc_olist2.ht
ml
>(2002)
>http://funredes.org/mistica/english/cyberlibrary/thematic/trabajandoengl.pd
f
>(illustrated in 2004)
>[12]
>http://funredes.org/mistica/english/cyberlibrary/thematic/utopista/docfin_u
topista
>[13]
>http://funredes.org/mistica/castellano/ciberoteca/tematica/utopista/utopist
av1/
>[14] http://funredes.org/lc
>[15] http://funredes.org/tradauto
>[16] http://funredes.org/pimienta
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