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Policy Recommendations: to set up Digital Pioneers in all EU countries with a focus on Central Europe The Internet has changed nearly all forms of human communication, work, organization and leisure. It is a very recent protocol, www (1993), that has managed this disruptive innovation. The recently formed EU Expert Group on the Internet of Things claims that there is a second internet wave coming, with even more connectivity (now also between things; M2M= Machine to Machine Communication). Read more	new tools for validation In our SHAREIt project I experienced a turning moment when in Venice visiting the labs of the Association partnering in our program, Gianfranco Bonesso was approached outside the lab premisses by a young guy from Bangladesh. He asked if it were possible to use the lab (equipped with computers and a good connection) for workshops with his friends? Gianfranco explained that Munir had been one of the earliest students in the labs that his Venice Department set up. To me this fact was the validation of the workshops and the labs.Read more	Costing the impacts of digital exclusion How much exactly does digital exclusion cost? Both the cost to individual without access to digital technologies. And the cost to government. A PWC report last year put the cost at £22bn, but it’s not entirely clear how that figure was reached, or, more importantly, how such a study would be replicated to track changes in the costs of digital exclusion.
eInclusion position paper "eInclusion or digital inclusion is the term used within the European Union to encompass activities related to the achievement of an inclusive information society, bringing the benefits of information technology to all segments of society. eInclusion is one of the main themes on the EU agenda. Read more	Scaffolding Knowledge Communities in the Classroom: New Opportunities in the Web 2.0 Era Researchers in the learning sciences have long recognized the potential of online spaces to support learning activities; however, the pervasiveness of social media construction typically associated with “Web 2.0” represents a new context for researching learning and instruction. This chapter reports two studies that used a wiki to deliver a new curriculum model that blends scripted inquiry activities with collaborative knowledge construction in secondary school biology.Read more	Measuring Internet Skills; A. J. A. M. van Deursen and J. A. G. M. van Dijk Research that considers Internet skills often lacks theoretical justifications and does not go beyond basic button knowledge. There is a strong need for a measurement framework that can guide future research. In this article, operational definitions for measuring Internet skills are proposed, applied in two large-scale performance tests, and tested for reliability and validity. The framework consists of four Internet skills:Read more
Rob van Kranenburg on Policy Making Process, ASEF Singapore 2008 During the Mini-Summit on New Media Art Policy & Practise (2008) which was co-organised by ASEF and IFACCA, Rob van Kranenburg spoke about the importance of involving practitioners and artists earlier in the decision making process for an elaborate way of thinking on global issues.	Key goal of SHAREIT: extend the classroom to the living environment Inspiration Material: Building on her work on Amsterdam Realtime where she realized her visualizations could stand alone as poetic evocations, Esther Polak and Ieva Auzina appropriated in Milk the GPS trajectories to create and facilitate meaningful stories and opened up new forms and fields of research. Read more	Can e-inclusion lead to social exclusion? For most people in the EU the internet is 17 years old. For them it did not start with Arpanet and distributed systems, but with the browser, Mosaic, then Netscape, Christmas 1993. Up until tcp/ip, the global protocol that works fully democratic at the lowest level: your mail goes as fast through the network as the email of EU President Herman van Rompuy, we came from a socio-economic, legal and psychological framework of the book. In 1455 the first book was published, the Gutenberg bible. In the Netherlands the first public libraries came about in early 1900s. Read more
PEOPLE: What does it want to achieve? SHARE IT is a subproject of the PEOPLE miniprogramme and it’s sub-theme 'Social and e-inclusion'. The PEOPLE mini-programme aims to have knowledge exchange take place concerning regional solutions to the adverse consequences of demographic change. This concerns seeking out and exploring new opportunities for labour creation, promoting social cohesion and quality of life. The demographic changes that demand innovative solutions include ageing, immigration and changing family structures. Read more	Light communities This short text introduces two projects in development which investigate and produce tools for citizenship for both youth and policy agents. Two crucial terms are light communities and design for social friction.Read more

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

Jan Steyaart

Jan Steyaart is the social expert for Fontys on SHARE IT. Since 1995, he works at the Fontys University of Professional Education in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with the School of Social Studies. He is also adjunct research professor at the University of Southampton, linked to the Centre for Human Service Technology. Since October 2008, his a professor at the master of social work at the university of Antwerp, teaching the module on technology and social work.

http://www.steyaert.org/jan/

Geska Helena Brecevic

Geska Helena Brecevic is the Swedish partner for SHAREIT, together with Robert Brecevic and David Herdies. Together with Robert Brecevic, she has embarked on a three-year exploration of artistic R&D under the name PERFORMING PICTURES, where she acts a creative partner and producer. Her interest lies in exploring possible new grammars and syntaxes for responsive movies, and to work with moving imagery in relation to “elasticity” in narrative forms.

http://www.performingpictures.se/

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