In the Moscow workshop on Design and New Technologies LP project coordinator Rob van Kranenburg presented the SHAREIT toolkit (downloadable end of june) and series of workshops in Timis as good practice in creating alliances to introduce new technologies and new media in education, small and mediuRead more
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Bas Withagen explains Scottie. Waag Society (www.waag.org) chose a smart care context: hospital. There are different types of interactions. Scotties live in families of three (RGB color schemes, as colors can mix). Scottie does mot sense presence. Question: how about putting in a screen? As a platform it has no ending All Scotties behave in the same way. It runs for 5 hours on batteries, then can be charged on a laptop. They connect via GPRS/GSM through a central server where all actions are logged.Read more
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Mini pilot: “Digital letter to my parents”General Directorate for Social Affairs and Child Protection Timis as part of “Shareit”
The phenomenon of children left at home due to migrating parents is widespread in Romania today. From a societal point of view this phenomenon is supposed to affect the ability of children left at home to have equal chances of development and therefore to be at risk for social exclusion.
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Where: Timis
When: March 17 and 18
17: 10:00: 18:00
18: 09:30: 1330
Why: After a brainstorm where new alliances where discovered and developed, a workshop on the contents of the mini pilot, a third workshop on technical scenarios of connecting objects tentatively closes the cycle.Read more
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De meeste Europese jongeren doen mee in de samenleving, gaan naar school, vinden werk en horen erbij. Ze vinden hun weg in het virtuele domein met moderne media en ICT en vergroten daarmee hun kansen in de samenleving. Sommige – meer kwetsbare - jongeren ervaren uitsluiting, schooluitval en werkloosheid. In Noord-Brabant, Stockholm en Venetië gaat ‘t daarbij vaak om jongeren uit etnische minderheden en migrantengroepen. In het Poolse Krakow en Roemeense Timisoara om jongeren – Euro-orphans - wiens ouders in West-Europa werken.
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In September, Annmarie Niles, 24, starts a degree in Digital Media at London Metropolitan University. Remarkable, really, given that just 18 months ago she did not know how to send an email. "If someone had said to me I'd be going to University and doing a degree using computers I'd never ever have believed them," she says.
Ms Niles has been having free computer lessons at the Islington Computer Skills Centre based at Finsbury Library in London. She says the lessons have changed her life.Read more
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FAQ from Warchild
"Why does War Child Holland focus on psychosocial assistance?
Among the children who have lived through war there is a definite need for this kind of programme, but very few organizations offer this kind of assistance. As part of our work, we use knowledge and practical exercises based on creative therapies.
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From a societal point of view this phenomenon is supposed to affect the ability of children left at home to have equal chances of development, and therefore to be at risk for social exclusion. The social exclusion is a multidimensional concept, a process that leads to a state of multiple deprivations (thus to the impossibility to reach a certain level of well-being). This aspect goes beyond participation in working life; it is felt and shown in the fields of housing, education, health and access to services (Poggi, 2003).
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On July 3 the SHAREIT team gathered in Stockholm to experience the storytelling method of the Swedish Partner, Motesplats Hornstull and Performing Pictures. Present were for Venice, Gianfranco Bonesso, Maria del Pilar Sanchez, Giovanni Zorzi, for Timis Delia Costan, for Malapolska Zuzanna Oles and Agata Otrebska, for Sweden Geska Helena Brecevic and David Herdies, for Fontys, Rob van Kranenburg and Ben Schouten.
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Timing is one of the most important factors in the networked world where so many ideas run parallel and processes run consecutively.Read more
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Throughout history, story has been used to teach, to entertain, to express, to advocate, and to organize. It is through the sharing of stories that communities build their identities, pass on traditions, and construct meaning. Community building efforts use story to remember the past, to understand the present, and to imagine the future.
‘Every community has a memory of itself. Neither an archive nor an authoritative record ...but a living history, an awareness of a collective identity woven of a thousand stories’Read more
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The jury of the European Young Journalist Award wrote: "In France, it is the ”euro orphans” phenomenon, tackled by Prune Antoine, that held the attention of the jury. The article entitled ”Poland: children of no-one” distances itself by the originality of its subject. The migratory wave from Eastern Europe countries and its consequences on family are analysed through an in-depth analysis and a wide range of points of views.Read more
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With Romania joining the European Union and the opening of the job markets for Romanians within the other European countries and not only, several Romanians have chosen the road of migration in search for better work conditions. One of the effects of this phenomenon is the children left at home, the so called Euro Orphans. Euro Orphans represent the group of children that have at least one of their parents working abroad for more than 6 months.
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We are witnessing a move towards pervasive computing and disappearing technologies in intelligent clothing (wearables), smart environments (knowing where and who we are), pervasive games, and we will see doors opening for some and closing to others. Wireless is increasingly pulling in all kinds of applications, platforms, services and things (rfid) into networks.Read more
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Throughout history, story has been used to teach, to entertain, to express, to advocate, and to organize. It is through the sharing of stories that communities build their identities, pass on traditions, and construct meaning. Community building efforts use story to remember the past, to understand the present, and to imagine the future.
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