Re: [DC3] DC3 Researchers group

Awesome Leandro. So... this proposal was born in the context of many conversations around the University of Guadalajara. We have met many researchers that may be interested to collaborate

us, but we need to do a little bit of extra effort to have them on board. What I feel we need to do is to encourage them to touch topics that they were not used to touch, and that could happen on a place (like a mailing list) were we can stimulate them for that. Do you have any idea on how we can do this? And now that I know the many initiatives around, do we have an Observatory of our field so we can have all this researches together and show the interest that the research movement have on our field? Regards, On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 16:33 +0100, Leandro Navarro wrote: > On 17/12/16 14:54, Nicolas wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Maureen and I have been having many interesting meetings this

> > in > > Guadalajara (and we will share the outcomes shortly). > > One thing we saw was that there are many people on the academic > > sector > > that share our vision and want to contribute by doing research > > papers > > on our field. > > > > What do you think about building a group that gets together all

> > existing research fellows, where we can start adding people? > > Hi, my opinion is that this already exists in a wider scope, the > ICT4D > community. One example is the excellent work IPID is doing for so > many > years: http://groupspaces.com/ipid > Regarding academic conferences (and communities around), we have > http://acmdev.org/ for the more technology oriented, and > http://ictd2017.itu.edu.pk/ for the more interdisciplinary. > For instance the ACMDEV 2015 had several papers about community > networks, and the best paper award was given to one about WISPs

> U > Berkeley: http://dev6.acmdev.org/program.php > > There are also very relevant academic journals. One is " The

> of > Community Informatics". For instance this special issue: > http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/54 is very nice. > You'll > see familiar names there. > > A lesson learned (not only for me) is that research in ICT4D

> recognized forums that can promote high-quality complementary > collaborations and publications, that can be competitive and

> under normal academic quality metrics. That can enable research > careers > in these areas, visibility and research impact, which are long-term > critical issues. For these reasons, I find more effective and > sustainable to join and contribute to reinforce existing

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