Digital community stories
09-Nov-09
Sulá Batsú has been working on the project “Information and Knowledge Management (IKM)”. The project is reflecting about and improving the knowledge processes, as well as the connection between diverse types of knowledge. It is a global project with 4 different work teams, one of them looking at local knowledge processes, and Sula’s initiative fits into that work area.
Sula’s project is directed towards youth empowerment and intergenerational knowledge sharing supported by ICT tools. The idea is to generate a collectively constructed product based on the experience of key actors and stakeholders, analyzed from the perspective of young members of the community. There is a blog to follow up on the project advance. The group so far has created a variety of methodologies including games, photography, painting, storytelling, interviews and group dynamics, all directed to recover the history of the community and to create capacity to generate and share new knowledge.
There’s more information about the project in Spanish, and there’s a video about some of the project activities (activate the English subtitles by clicking on the CC link of the Youtube video).* There is also a Flickr account for the project, where we have photos taken mostly by the children in the communities.
*A technical detail: I helped with the subtitling of this video. I used Jubler to do the subtitling and then used YouTube feature for including subtitle files. Days later, I learned the folks at Miro are coming up with a cool solution for subtitling in multiple platforms. Remind me of writing a post specifically about that.
