Este documento discute el concepto de Euskal Hiria o Ciudad Vasca y cómo podría incluir a la diáspora vasca. Explora cómo las nuevas redes sociales podrían beneficiar a una comunidad con una gran diáspora al permitir que los miembros de la diáspora produzcan y compartan su identidad vasca de manera virtual. También considera si existe el peligro de que la gente viva más en la red que en la vida real y concluye que se requiere un enfoque híbrido que articule ambos mundos.
The interview is about Network Society and how it applies to the Basque Networked Territory: 'Confío en la Sociedad Red para superar las contradicciones de nuestra @Euskal_Hiria y vertebrar país' (2008)
The interview is about Network Society and how it applies to the Basque Networked Territory: 'Confío en la Sociedad Red para superar las contradicciones de nuestra @Euskal_Hiria y vertebrar país' (2008)
¿Es necesario seguir publicando libros? Parece obvio que redactar textos, dirigidos
o no a verse publicados en este formato, se ha convertido en una sólida tendencia,
basta ver la proliferación de contenidos digitales que habitan la Red. También resulta
constatable el hecho de que nunca antes se han publicado tantos libros. Y a
pesar de ello, la pregunta que abre esta introducción sigue resonando en mi cabeza.
Ilustración contraportada
Jorge Gimeno (Gibo)
Impresión
Omán Impresores
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Basque settlement increased in the western states of the US decades ago, particularly in California, Idaho, and Nevada. Alongside this migration phenomenon, Basque Studies programs have been emerging at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), Boise State University (BSU), and California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), particularly in the humanities, including history, anthropology, linguistics, and literature. The impact of the pandemic in Basque e-Diasporic communities in California, Idaho, and Nevada, and, consequently, the deep digitalization process being undertaken at the abovementioned universities, has resulted in an increasing demand for an articulated strategy in community engagement through action research. To respond to this timely challenge, the article suggests a need for a transition towards a Social Science transdisciplinary roadmap to support Basque e-diasporic communities. Basque Studies programs have the potential to act as a transformational policy driver through their virtual connections with the Basque Country and key homeland institutions. This article explores this necessary transition through action research by acknowledging the potential for the three abovementioned US states and the Basque Country to set up a transformational e-Diaspora.
To cite this journal article:
Calzada, I. & Arranz, I. (2022), Western US Basque-American e-Diaspora: Action Research in California, Idaho, and Nevada. Societies 12(6), 153. DOI:10.3390/soc12060153.
Dr Calzada's Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence reception took place on 10th October 2022 at California State University, Bakersfield. This event contributed to launch the Institute for Basque Studies (IBS) through a renewed academic programme based on trans-disciplinarity, entrepreneurship, and digitalisation by connecting the Basque Country, Wales, and California. The Fulbright reception event presentation focused on opportunities both at the city-regional level for Central Valley as well as from e-diaspora perspective in relation to Boise and Reno's Basque Studies programme. It is up to the IBS now to implement core foundations stemming from Fulbright S-I-R's programme led by Dr Calzada as PI. An efficient coordination within the CSUB and strategic stakeholders under the supervision of the PI in Bakersfield and Kern County will be required to make this Fulbright S-I-R's foundational statement feasible and doable, which should actively endure over time. The 5th December 2022, alongside the IBS-Etxepare agreement signature, a workshop will be held by the IBS to wrap up and put into practice Fulbright SIR-IBS programme's foundational formulation from January 2023 onwards being that co-led by the PI and IBS.
To cite this document/presentation:
Calzada, I. (2022). Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence (S-I-R) Reception. California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), October 10, Bakersfield, California: USA. DOI: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28746.85448.
¿Es necesario seguir publicando libros? Parece obvio que redactar textos, dirigidos
o no a verse publicados en este formato, se ha convertido en una sólida tendencia,
basta ver la proliferación de contenidos digitales que habitan la Red. También resulta
constatable el hecho de que nunca antes se han publicado tantos libros. Y a
pesar de ello, la pregunta que abre esta introducción sigue resonando en mi cabeza.
Ilustración contraportada
Jorge Gimeno (Gibo)
Impresión
Omán Impresores
Este libro se publica bajo licencia Creative Commons de tipo
“Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada”, se permite su copia y
distribución por cualquier medio siempre que mantenga el reconocimiento
de sus autores, no haga uso comercial de las obras y no realice ninguna
modificación de ellas.
La licencia completa puede consultarse en:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/es/legalcode.es
Basque settlement increased in the western states of the US decades ago, particularly in California, Idaho, and Nevada. Alongside this migration phenomenon, Basque Studies programs have been emerging at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), Boise State University (BSU), and California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), particularly in the humanities, including history, anthropology, linguistics, and literature. The impact of the pandemic in Basque e-Diasporic communities in California, Idaho, and Nevada, and, consequently, the deep digitalization process being undertaken at the abovementioned universities, has resulted in an increasing demand for an articulated strategy in community engagement through action research. To respond to this timely challenge, the article suggests a need for a transition towards a Social Science transdisciplinary roadmap to support Basque e-diasporic communities. Basque Studies programs have the potential to act as a transformational policy driver through their virtual connections with the Basque Country and key homeland institutions. This article explores this necessary transition through action research by acknowledging the potential for the three abovementioned US states and the Basque Country to set up a transformational e-Diaspora.
To cite this journal article:
Calzada, I. & Arranz, I. (2022), Western US Basque-American e-Diaspora: Action Research in California, Idaho, and Nevada. Societies 12(6), 153. DOI:10.3390/soc12060153.
Dr Calzada's Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence reception took place on 10th October 2022 at California State University, Bakersfield. This event contributed to launch the Institute for Basque Studies (IBS) through a renewed academic programme based on trans-disciplinarity, entrepreneurship, and digitalisation by connecting the Basque Country, Wales, and California. The Fulbright reception event presentation focused on opportunities both at the city-regional level for Central Valley as well as from e-diaspora perspective in relation to Boise and Reno's Basque Studies programme. It is up to the IBS now to implement core foundations stemming from Fulbright S-I-R's programme led by Dr Calzada as PI. An efficient coordination within the CSUB and strategic stakeholders under the supervision of the PI in Bakersfield and Kern County will be required to make this Fulbright S-I-R's foundational statement feasible and doable, which should actively endure over time. The 5th December 2022, alongside the IBS-Etxepare agreement signature, a workshop will be held by the IBS to wrap up and put into practice Fulbright SIR-IBS programme's foundational formulation from January 2023 onwards being that co-led by the PI and IBS.
To cite this document/presentation:
Calzada, I. (2022). Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence (S-I-R) Reception. California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), October 10, Bakersfield, California: USA. DOI: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28746.85448.
Smart City Citizenship provides rigorous analysis for academics and policymakers on the participatory processes and practices of smart cities to help integrate ICT-related innovation into urban life. Unlike other smart city books that are often edited collections, this book focuses on the business domain and the technological disruptions themselves, also examining the role of citizens and the democratic governance issues raised from an interdisciplinary perspective. As smart city research is a fast-growing topic of scientific inquiry and evolving rapidly, this book is an ideal reference for a much needed discussion.
To cite this book: Calzada, I. (2020), Smart City Citizenship, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc. ISBN-10: 0128153008 ISBN-13: 978-0128153000
Further information:
ELSEVIER
https://www.elsevier.com/books/smart-city-citizenship/calzada/978-0-12-815300-0
AMAZON
https://www.amazon.in/Smart-City-Citizenship-Igor-Calzada/dp/0128153008/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1565528866&refinements=p_27%3AIgor+Calzada&s=books&sr=1-2
Abstract:
In light of the recent ‘tourism-phobia’, there is a need to better understand how tourism could be transformed through new business and social models. Attempts have been made, for example, to identify which experimental tourism models would align with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nonetheless, research remains scant and the policy paradigm slightly out of date. With the pervasive proliferation of tourism services provided by big tech multinationals such as AirBnB and Uber and the rapid algorithmic disruption of the so-called “sharing economy” paradigm, several European cities and regions are seeking to mitigate the negative side-effects caused by “platform capitalism” in their neighborhoods and local communities. These side-effects include gentrification, privatization of public space, inherent conflicts between visitors/tourists and residents/locals, environmental damage, and precarious working conditions, among others. Thus, this paper explores why tourism in Europe requires new business and social models to neutralise this algorithmic disruption and modify the extractivist neoliberal logic in tourism to develop new, transformative, techno-political, bottom-up, and networked strategies stemming from the city-regional realm. Against the backdrop of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU that has recently taken effect on 25 May 2018, this paper argues that a new, transformative, tourism paradigm could emerge from the European political left. The push of the city-regional resurgence beyond established nation-states could enable grassroots and institutional tourism initiatives to take the lead and coordinate a political response to achieve further sustainable, equitable, and, ultimately, democratic technological sovereignty in diverse localities through Europe. In conclusion, this paper posits city-regional, bottom-up, and networked dynamics characterised by the GDPR as an opportunity to establish a new techno-political paradigm in tourism by overcoming data and algorithmic extractivist practices.
To cite this publication: Calzada, I. (2020), Seeing Tourism Transformations in Europe through Algorithmic, Techno-Political and City-Regional Lenses, In Transforming Tourism: Regional Perspectives on a Global Phenomenon. Edited by the Coppieters and Ezkerraberri Foundations. 2020/01. Chapter 6. pp 74-89. Brussels: Centre Maurits Coppieters CMC. ISBN: 978-90-826321-0-1. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.33522.45769/1.
ABSTRACT: This article draws on the thorny topic of the Social Innovation (SI). Particularly, it revolves around the role of those social movements promoting the Basque language not only in relation to their organisational models but also to their holistic strategy to tackle inevitably digital, urban, and political challenges surfaced by the disruptions stemming from the post-COVID society.
To cite this article:
Calzada, I. (2020), The Role of Social Movements in the Social Innovation (SI): Euskaraldia as a Digital Panopticon. BAT Aldizkaria 115(2): 00-00. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35980.05763/2. [Preprint] Forthcoming. CC BY-NC 4.0
Video:
https://youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1444&v=lygDohSla6g&feature=emb_logo
Slides:
https://www.slideshare.net/topagunea/topaldia-2020-igor-calzada-oxfordeko-unibertsitatea
General link:
https://topaldia.topagunea.eus/topaldia-2020/igor-calzada/
Over the last decades, globalisation has led to a new class of global citizens. While the access to this global citizenship is still not spread evenly, many have enjoyed the freedom to move, work, and travel with no limits. However, this cosmopolitan globalisation rhetoric of a borderless world has been drastically slowed down by Covid-19. This pandemic has introduced a new level of uncertainty in global affairs and led many to question whether citizens will be able to continue enjoying the freedom of movement once the crisis is over. To share this article: https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/will-covid-19-be-the-end-of-the-global-citizen To cite this article: Calzada, I. (2020), Will Covid-19 be the end of the global citizen? Apolitical. Retrieved from: https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/will-covid-19-be-the-end-of-the-global-citizen DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11942.27208/1.
Dr Igor Calzada participates on 26th and 27th September 2019 in Barcelona on the ‘Workshop on Public Policy, Cities and the State’ co-organised by the UPF (Barcelona) and SciencesPo (Paris). He presents a paper about a forthcoming publication:
Calzada, I. (2020), Emerging Citizenship Regimes and Rescaling (European) Nation-States: Algorithmic, Liquid, Metropolitan and Stateless Citizenship Ideal Types. In Sami Moisio, Andrew EG Jonas, Natalie Koch, Christopher Lizotte, Juho Luukkonen and Matthew Sparke (eds), Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State: New Spaces of Geopolitics. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. [Forthcoming] DOI: 10.13140:RG.2.2.17301.6832/1.
Here is the reference of the paper:
Calzada, I. (2019), Emerging Citizenship Regimes and Rescaling (European) Nation-States: Algorithmic, Liquid, Metropolitan and Stateless Citizenship Ideal Types. Workshop on Public Policy, Cities and the State jointly co-organised by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra-Barcelona (UPF), Department of Political and Social Sciences & SciencesPo (Centre d’Études Européennes et de Politique Comparée)-Paris, UPF, 26-27 Sept., Barcelona (Spain).
This is a periodistic article published on September 8, 2019, in the Basque newspaper Berria, which is entirely in Basque language. The article revolves around the volatile Brexit context by giving several insights referring to the democratic dysfunctional nature of Brexit whatsoever and elaborating from an sketchy and nuanced analysis on the unequal scenarios and future prospects for England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
To cite this article:
Calzada, I. (2019), Brexit: Erraietatik. Berria. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.15258.59849.
AI is now an important component of sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, public administration and transportation, and is helping to address major challenges such as ageing and climate change. However, there is currently a lack of transparency in algorithmic governance systems, and this is worsened when these algorithms are integrated into already opaque governance structures in our cities. Moreover, over the past decade, the propagation of sensors and data collection machines in so-called ‘smart cities’ by both the public and the private sectors has created democratic challenges around AI, surveillance capitalism, and protecting citizens’ digital rights to privacy and ownership.
This is a policy report elaborated by the Basque Studies' Society to collect a wide range of opinions on the prospective nature of the Basque territory. Dr Calzada has contributed to the report in a 'Collective Authorship' fashion.
This is the report published on 25th June 2018 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group of the UK Government entitled: 'Intelligent leadership: How government strategy can unlock the potential of smart cities in the UK' to which Dr Calzada from the University of Oxford has contributed to.
Journal article published in @GlocalismJ on 'Do Digital Social Networks Foster Civilian #Participation among #Millennials? Kitchenware Revolution & #15M Democratic Regeneration cases' #Iceland & #Spain #technopolitics #democracy #socialmedia #OpenAccess http://www.glocalismjournal.net/issues/beyond-democracy-innovation-as-politics/articles/do-digital-social-networks-foster-civilian-partecipation-among-millenials-kitchenware-revolution-and-15m-democratic-regeneration-cases.kl
Territories is a new and innovative international journal that covers the evolution of theories, notions and concepts, facts and interpretations of empirical analysis related to the field of regional studies. The journal aims to publish original research from an interdisciplinary angle, which deals with the economic, socio-political, environmental and philosophical dimensions of urban and non-urban (post-national) regions. The specific goal of Territories stands on the study, debate and intellectual argument on how the global scenario provokes a new understanding, recognition and evolution of regional realities around the world, which go beyond the national concept. This journal will publish papers that engage with the economic and political conditions that have a founded impact towards regional realities, and vice versa. It is important to note that
this reverse angle is crucial to understand the global scene today. Territories represents a new agora where to bring critical perspectives that may help to understand and change the current hegemonic conditions.
Calzada, I. (2018) From Smart Cities to Experimental Cities? In Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino and Zachary David Walsh (eds), Co-Designing Economies in Transition: Radical Approaches in Dialogue with Contemplative Social Sciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 191-217. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66592-4_11.
Dr Calzada is participating as partner representative and WP leader of Replication of Replicate EU project, in the 'Replication Workshop: From Follower to Lighthouse City for Smarter Cities' organised by EU-INEA in Brussels.
Dr Calzada has been kindly invited by the Barcelona City Council to take part in the Board of Directors of the Barcelona City Council on 17th January 2018. His presentation has been elaborated in collaboration with ESADE Business School. The title is: 'Cities & Data: Com el Digital, #BigData & #DataScience està transformant els governs'.
Dr Calzada will be teaching as an invited invited and guest lecturer on the MIT Metro Lab Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts on 11th January 2018 on 'Political Regionalism and Metropolitan Governance: Devolution, Metropolitanisation, and the Right to Decide'.
The MIT Metro Lab Initiative have held another edition in which Dr Calzada will contribute to the section: Co-creating the metro discipline that will take place from 8th to 12th January 2018.
During this time, he will be part of the instructors of the theme Metropolitan Governance by addressing the specific and delicate issue of legitimacy. Dr Calzada will examine how a new political regionalism pattern claims expressed and embodied via geo-democratic practices.
Here is the brochure of the entire course.
Dr Calzada will be teaching as an invited invited and guest lecturer on the MIT Metro Lab Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts on 11th January 2018 on 'Political Regionalism and Metropolitan Governance: Devolution, Metropolitanisation, and the Right to Decide'.
The MIT Metro Lab Initiative have held another edition in which Dr Calzada will contribute to the section: Co-creating the metro discipline that will take place from 8th to 12th January 2018.
During this time, he will be part of the instructors of the theme Metropolitan Governance by addressing the specific and delicate issue of legitimacy. Dr Calzada will examine how a new political regionalism pattern claims expressed and embodied via geo-democratic practices.
Here is abstract of his presentation on 11th January 2018, in Boston, Massachusetts (USA).
Dr Calzada has been invited as an instructor and guest lecturer at the MIT Metro Lab Initiative Course 2018 in Boston, Massachussets. He will deliver a conference on Metropolitan Governance and Political Regionalism.
The workshop will stress the importance of transitions as a new “urban commons” narrative for urban infrastructure (housing, food, mobility, etc.), collaborative civilian empowerment, network governance, alternative finance, urban co-operatives, energy grassroots mobilisation, data-driven sovereignties/devolution, urban welfare, and urban development. Additionally, the workshop will focus on questions of urban governance and will explore different frameworks for governing common urban resources.
Hence, after consideration of the above, we should also ask whether another urban governance model is possible, a ‘third way’ of urban experimentation between state and market (Keith & Calzada, 2017; Keith & Calzada, 2016; Dellenbaugh et al., 2016).
This is the final workshop of the series ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations 2016-2018’ that has been coordinated by Dr Igor Calzada. To conclude, this workshop series:
• aimed to bring about academics and non-academics to reflect on urban challenges affecting cities and regions in Europe.
• emphasized an interdisciplinary dialogue, bridged the gap between theory and practice, and encouraged knowledge exchange between academics, policymakers, citizens, and activists.
• built on the first, second, third, and fourth Brussels workshop of the ESRC Urban Transformations programme and formed part of a series of interventions in partnership.
SEMIOLOGIA DE HEMORRAGIAS DIGESTIVAS.pptxOsiris Urbano
Evaluación de principales hallazgos de la Historia Clínica utiles en la orientación diagnóstica de Hemorragia Digestiva en el abordaje inicial del paciente.
1. ¿DIÁSPORA (VASCA) 2.0?*
1. ¿Cómo explicarías el concepto de Euskal Hiria / Ciudad Vasca a alguien que
reside en el exterior?
Detrás del concepto de Euskal Hiria está la necesidad de replantear lo que se entiende
por Euskadi, Euskal Herria, País Vasco y que debería incluir lo que hasta el momento
se ha venido entendiendo como Diáspora Vasca. Euskal Hiria podría ser un lugar de
encuentro de todas las acepciones sobre la identidad que la historia nos ha dejado. Tal
vez, un término aséptico como eje vertebrador de la realidad vasca interna, desde lo
local, y externo, hasta lo global. Ciudad Vasca puede responder de una forma no
traumática a diferentes sensibilidades ideológicas, y me atrevo a decir, que tal vez en
relación a los cambios en las infraestructuras, cambios demográficos, productivos-
económicos, sociales, culturales, tecnológicos e incluso transformaciones en la
concepción político-institucional; Euskal Hiria podría ser ese lugar de encuentro con
forma de Sociedad Red cada vez más conectada, cohesionada y plural. En otras
palabras, la “posible” Euskadi de dentro 20 años. Los cambios que estamos viviendo a
nivel de país son muchos y efectivamente debemos incluir a aquellas personas que no
residen en Euskadi, pero que “producen” una identidad que está asociada con el
sentir, la emoción, el recuerdo pero también la construcción en tiempo real de manera
virtual, de el “hecho vasco”. Lo que hoy es País Vasco, Euskal Herria o Euskadi, podrá
ser Euskal Hiria. Lo que ocurre es, que como toda realidad prospectiva nos parece
lejana, pero si empezamos a identificar factores de cambio en el país, todo nos lleva a
la idea de que lo vasco “deberá” tener una forma y un tratamiento de Ciudad, con la
consideración de asumir el hecho subjetivo de la Ciudadanía Vasca.
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2. 2. Las nuevas redes sociales están revolucionando las relaciones personales.
¿Qué ventajas puede tener esto en una comunidad con una diáspora tan grande
como la vasca?
Considero que el panorama 2.0 y el auge inmediato que están teniendo las redes
sociales no por el hecho de haber alterado el código de funcionamiento de las redes
personales, sino porque incluso, pueden cambiar a largo plazo la composición
identitaria del hecho vasco. Es decir, la Diáspora Vasca se ha podido “entender” como
un revival de la identidad que se ha producido en el nodo, Euskadi, País Vasco o
Euskal Herria. El salto que habría que dar sería el de empezar a “facilitar” una
identidad vasca en constante producción, y efectivamente me estoy refiriendo a la
importancia de la Diáspora en este campo. No como meros replicantes/receptores
“pasivos” sino como productores de identidad. O identidades compartidas.
Hablar de esa Ciudad Vasca, de esa Euskadi, constituida o construida mediante las
redes sociales es fundamental. Desde mi perspectiva, no obstante, creo que la Ciudad
Vasca no se puede limitar al enfoque cibernético de la Euskadi Virtual, Euskadi digital
únicamente. Sería irreal. No completo. Básicamente porque la producción de la
identidad vasca en el País Vasco se produce de manera presencial y comunitaria. No
lo podemos olvidar.
No obstante, creo que las redes sociales nos están dando una visión muy diferente de
nuestras posibilidades de actuar, en definitiva, de hacer país o hacer territorio. De
alguna forma este fenómeno representa un nuevo espacio, una versión mejorada al
estilo 2.0., una posibilidad de forma. El contenido es incierto. Lo más importante no es
que todo esté en Internet, sino que la lógica, también la de las redes sociales, esté en
el día a día de las personas y en la vida real. Ese es el verdadero poder del cambio
que estamos experimentando. Y la Diáspora puede aparecer como una oportunidad
para desarrollar esto mismo.
3. En este sentido, ¿hay peligro de que al final se viva más en la red que en la
vida real?
Siempre pongo el ejemplo de la televisión; cuando no había Internet, el miedo de
nuestras madres era que estuviésemos todo el día pegados a la tele, a la caja tonta
que se solía llamar. Internet es la fábrica colectiva de generación de un mundo virtual,
de una ficción compartida, que estamos generando entre todos. De todos modos,
nadie vive atrapado en el mundo virtual y ficticio 100%. Es un canal de banda muy
ancha en la vida de cada uno de nosotros. Tenemos un “yo analógico” y un “yo digital”.
Conceptos como “huella digital”, “personal branding”,…etc no son más que
consecuencias de que estamos incorporando a nuestro tejido vital, herramientas que
alteran la forma, pero también el fondo. Eso es la lógica 2.0. Al final de todo somos
personas las que estamos detrás de esas pantallas, personas que necesitan
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3. relacionarse con otras personas que están detrás de esas cámaras, tocándoles y
hablándoles, eso es lo realmente importante.
La estrategia en la era 2.0, (y tal vez en nuestro país más aún por la idiosincrasia que
presenta), en cualquier campo de actuación, debe ser un enfoque híbrido. El éxito, tal
y como vengo observando en algunas ciudades de EE.UU y Europa, viene de la
correcta definición y articulación de ambos mundos: Virtual y presencial. Digital y
analógico.
Lo que no existe ninguna duda es que es irreversible. Tenemos que coger la ola pero
adaptarla a nuestra identidad, forma y necesidad. Todo no vale en este mundo.
4. Se dice hoy en día que Internet es democrático y horizontal, ¿Cómo va a
evolucionar?, ¿a más control, o la propia evolución hace posible el control?
¿Internet democrático y horizontal? eso está aún por ver. Ejemplos recientes, como la
elección de Barack Obama como presidente de los Estados Unidos de América
demuestran cierta independencia de los usuarios en la red. El concepto de “dejar
hacer” de alguna manera forma parte del paradigma de una red neutral, open source.
Es por ello, que no debemos pensar en que la red no la controla nadie. Los ejemplos
son muchos y diferentes, las empresas Google y Myspace tienen sus propios dueños,
¿cuales son y quien decide los contenidos de Facebook?, son preguntas que nos
tenemos que hacer a la hora de abordar cuestiones sobre la Ciudad Vasca. En el
“bazar tecnológico 2.0” debemos probar todo, no rechazarlo. Pero ahí considero que
entra la clave de la gestión, la ética y la adaptación a cada realidad. Seguramente, en
esta Ciudad Vasca también, el tema de los derechos de autor, de a quién corresponde
lo que estamos volcando en la red, debería estar ya en la cabeza de cada uno de
nosotros. ¿A qué nos llevarían tales interrogantes? Seguramente a que existe una
incipiente necesidad de portales y entornos con licencias abiertas, con licencias
sociales, y todo lo que hay detrás del software social. Considero que estos son
aspectos muy importantes para hacer país, territorio, o región, y seguramente por ello,
en breve, tendremos que empezar a colectivizar los derechos digitales en ese sentido.
O por que no, ¿promover licencias propias? Y ahí, efectivamente, el campo está
totalmente abierto. ¿A quién le corresponden los derechos de imagen, de edición y de
todo lo demás?
Lo que quiero decir con todo esto es que Internet o la Red 1) se presenta como una
realidad irreversible, 2) dónde las redes sociales y la lógica 2.0 cada vez están
alterando la forma de funcionar e interaccionar, 3) incluso considerando la posibilidad
de que algunas estructuras en el futuro no muy lejano se puedan alterar, cambiar y
modificar, siempre y cuando exista una apoyo por unanimidad basada en información
fidedigna.
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4. Es por todo ello que el enfoque 2.0 y las redes sociales está íntimamente vinculado a
la idea de la Ciudad Vasca. Una territorio, región o país, que será lo que l@s
ciudadan@s puedan acordar, consensuar, provocar, en interacción permanente en
tiempo real, con redes internacionales.
Seguramente, sería deseable que la lógica de la red la 2.0, impregnase la vida no
virtual. Es decir, que llegáramos a cambiar la manera en la que cada uno quiere hacer
país. Por que tal vez, al fin y al cabo, no estamos tan lejos. Confío mucho en el
desarrollo de esta Sociedad Red, de esa Ciudad Vasca, como medio para superar
todas nuestras contradicciones/tensiones y seguir vertebrando país.
*(Entrevista publicada en el siguiente ejemplar
Nº 86 de la Revista Euskal Etxeak- Gobierno Vasco).
Igor Calzada.
http://www.igorcalzada.com
Portland, OR, USA.
Feb. 2009.
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