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SIDESCO A pan-Caribbean, Multilingual Master on Information Society, Development & Cooperation

SIDESCO A pan-Caribbean, Multilingual Master on Information Society, Development & Cooperation. DE. CO. ÌS. Why SIDESCO?. COOPERATION. DEVELOPMENT. INFORMATION SOCIETY. Why SIDESCO?. DEVELOPMENT IS AT THE CORE OF ALL CARIBBEAN STA KEH OLD ERS VISION. ACADEMY. GOVERMENTS.

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SIDESCO A pan-Caribbean, Multilingual Master on Information Society, Development & Cooperation

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  1. SIDESCO A pan-Caribbean, Multilingual Master on Information Society, Development & Cooperation DE CO ÌS

  2. Why SIDESCO? COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION SOCIETY

  3. Why SIDESCO? DEVELOPMENT IS AT THE CORE OF ALL CARIBBEAN STAKEHOLDERS VISION. ACADEMY GOVERMENTS CIVIL SOCIETY PRIVATE SECTOR

  4. Why SIDESCO? COOPERATION IS BOTH THE ESSENCE OF INFORMATION SOCIETIES AND THE ONLY WAY TO THE FUTURE OF THE CARIBBEAN

  5. Why SIDESCO? INFORMATION SOCIETY MEANS A HOLISTIC NEW PARADIGM VISION WHICH REQUIRES TO MASTER MANY SKILLS OPEN SOURCE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY PRIVACY INTERNET GOVERNANCE SECURITY IPvsCOMMONS OPEN ACCESS DIGITAL INCLUSION OPEN DATA e.GOV e.LEARN e.COM

  6. Why SIDESCO? • Because it is urgent to educate Caribbean decision makers, from all stakeholders groups, to Information Society matters within a perspective of development and cooperation!

  7. Why SIDESCO? • Because there is no such comprehensive education option in Latin America nor in the Caribbean at this stage. !

  8. Who is behind SIDESCO? A committed group of academics from under the impulse and the European and coordination of contribution from

  9. Facultad Latino-Americana de Ciencias Sociales • Key regional institution • High research profile • Academic experience in IS themes • Interest to replicate in UNASUR

  10. University of West Indies • The best example ever of regional integration • A high level university spanning the whole English speaking Caribbean • A must as a partner for SIDESCO

  11. Universidad Iberoamericana • Outstanding ICT infrastructure • Top level Dominican University • Strong regional and international orientation

  12. European research and innovation network • E.learning large experience • Development & cooperation orientation • Dense Caribbean experience (Winds, Cariberasmus, Eucarinet)

  13. Pionneer NGO in the field of ICT4D • Large record of regional projects coherent with SIDESCO objectives • Large world wide network of contacts in the Information Society field • Strong IS knowledge base • Unique multilingualism experience

  14. SIDESCO IS THE LOGICAL OUTCOME OF LARGE AND DIVERSE SET OF RESEARCH-ACTION EXPERIENCES AROUND ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT FROM 1988 TO DATE.

  15. REHRED (1993) REDID (1992) RCP (1991) SOCINFO.DO (2000) 2005 2000-2007 2005-2012 2005 CARIBTIC 1998-2000 Observatorio lenguas 1998-2013 WINDS-CARIBE 2007-2009

  16. What is the vision of SIDESCO? • Multilingual education in an essential theme as a practical tool for medium term regional integration. • Half presence, half distance education with common multilingual basis for the second part • Inclusion of language inter-comprehension as a key component • Very high level education offer open by a special effort of international/regional /national scholarships • Includes internships and exchange programs within the Caribbean • Curriculum tuned towards the needs of the Caribbean

  17. What are the assets of SIDESCO? • First comprehensive initiative in the region • Stand on strong knowledge and network basis • Multilingualism built-in design • Key partners committed (UWI, UAG,…) • Regional balance • Sustainable project • Long term vision (regional integration)

  18. How to implement SIDESCO? A relatively modest support for a feasibility study enough to launch a sustainable project to fulfill many urgent requirements for the Caribbean

  19. FEASIBILITY STUDY • 140,000 Euros budget • 6 months duration • collaborative effort under Funredes coordination • 18 tasks required • followed by a partner workshop for consensus reaching (additional budget of some 70,000 Euros required)

  20. TASKS FOR THE STUDY • General coordination • State of the art of connex projects world-wide and regional • Curriculum definition • SIDESCO network building • Institutional/financial model for SIDESCO network • International and national support framework for scholarships • Achitecture of the teaching/learning • Learning Management Systrem Design • Evaluation model • Business case (2 countries) • Administrative design • Multilingualism design • Internships and exchanges program • Project realization schedule • Aligning the project to global and regional agendas • Fundraising and project management

  21. SIDESCO Let’s cooperate towards an important academic project for the Caribbean which will strongly contribute to get well educated and integration minded decision makers from governments (include local) private sector and civil society.

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