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Social Cohesion Indicators in Flanders The current research project, Social Cohesion Indicators in Flanders, or SCIF (SCIV in Dutch) wants to explore the possibility of creating such a comprehensive set of social cohesion indicators. We want to focus on monitoring exclusion, inequality, participation, trust, feelings of insecurity, and the role played by local government offices. Read more	Timisoara’s adolescents left at home. A cross-sectional survey on the ICT role toward a better social inclusion Timisoara’s adolescents left at home. A cross-sectional survey on the ICT role toward a better social inclusionBy Florin A. Sava, PhD in Psychology, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara Executive Summary The main two questions of this endeavor are the following: (a) Are the Euro Orphans a particular category of adolescents at risk for social exclusion? (b) Can ICT help facilitating the social inclusion? Read more File Upload: Timis Research on Euro-Orphans	"Euro-Orphans" a New Problem For Poor European Countries "Euro-Orphans" a New Problem For Poor European Countries" The new phenomenon of parents, often from poor Eastern European countries, leaving their children to find work in richer European countries could have long-term negative effects on both the children and the society, experts warn. Read more
Hand made: new ways of creating connection and community Hand Made is a beautiful collaborative book with 26 innovative perspectives and projects from around the world, over 230 pages, about new ways of creating connection and community. The projects have been carefully selected because they have all been developed with new thinking and methodologies and involve Learning, Sharing or Making.Read more	Richard Stallman: Is Digital Inclusion A Good Thing? How Can We Make Sure It Is? "Digital information and communication technology offers the possibility of a new world of freedom. It also offers possibilities of surveillance and control which dictatorships of the past could only struggle to establish. The battle to decide between these possibilities is being fought now.Activities directed at “including” more people in the use of digital technology are predicated on the assumption that such inclusion is invariably a good thing. It appears so, when judged solely by immediate practical convenience. Read more	Riots in Rinkeby: the target area for the Swedish pilot Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt "cautioned that the riots that blighted the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby on Monday and Tuesday needed to be brought quickly under control, as ministers visited the area on Wednesday to take stock." (source) "Rioting was reported in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby on Tuesday (June 8 2010) night as 50-60 youths pelted police with stones and set alight to a building. Read more
Digital Inclusion: a debate from bottom up spaces Bricolabs discussion list: discussion on Digital Inclusion: From: "James Wallbank" <james@lowtech.org> Date: Thu, February 18, 2010 16:41Read more	Key terms: bridging/bonding/power of weak ties “The aim of the e-Inclusion agenda launched today is to promote inclusive ICT that are not barriers to inclusion. More ambitiously, we aim to promote ICT as a tool for active inclusion, addressing social challenges such as those associated with ageing. This also contributes to the realisation of other goals. For instance, we know that e-inclusive societies are more productive. We also know that the impact of ICT enabled public service reforms is limited if many citizens remain digitally illiterate and cannot use online services.” Read more

Edwin Mermans

Projectcoordinator European programme demographic changes. Policy officer Province Noord-Brabant Smart Care. Boardmember of Wereldpodium. Edwin Mermans is the coordinator of PEOPLE for Noord-Brabant and the direct policy contact for SHAREIT.

http://peoplepolicyforum.ning.com/

Vlad Fiscutean

Vlad Fiscutean is the Creative Visionary Leader and CEO of FMedia Studios, the sensory branding studio in Romania. His expertise include sensory branding, design, digital art, audio & video production, branding, marketing, business and software programming. He created brands for the USA, Germany, UK and the Romanian market.Vlad is a hybrid between artistic talent, analytical thinking and business skills. For a period of time he developed web and desktop applications asa programmer. Those years proved to be an outlandish but very useful foundation for his later career.In 2001 he was part of the team that was awarded the Great Prize of the National Cinema Art Festival (10th edition).Later, in 2005, he had his first solo digital art exhibition ("Identity - my other half", Teatru74, Tirgu Mures) and the mass-media noted it to be the first solo exhibition in Romania on the digital photomanipulation technique. At the exhibition he also lunched a Digital Art Manifesto explaining why digital art is not inferior to traditional art (as peopletought then). The exhibition was also maybe the first International art collaborative exhibition in Romania as he created the artworks from photography submited by worldwide photographers.

Vlad is in the network of Delia Costan in Timis.

http://www.vladfiscutean.com

Rob van Kranenburg

Rob van Kranenburg is projectmanager of SHARE IT. He works parttime for the Lectoraat Ambient Intelligence of Fontys Applied Sciences. He has been mainly active in the Internet of Things. He founded Council, a Thinktank for the Internet of Things and co-founded Bricolabs, bottom up open hardware and open thinking toward a more balanced and just networked society.

http://www.theinternetofthings.eu

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