Comments, intangible benefits, after a short experiment.
Rethink Google Co-Op, open cross-cultural bridges, as an useful tool, for quality feedback, developing a search engine.
I think, Anonymous... is not totally right in his or her, comments. One win-win strategic is not dreamed for fools, or masochists "experts", agree to waste his or her time, serving to others, for make their fortunes.
I see this tool as a interesting contribution, to global understanding, to collaborative education and possibility for emergent subjects, by amateurs - ICTs programmers, contents providers or Internet contributors- retaking volunteer work, in the same way NGOs and other kind of solidarity's organizations are thinking and acting -within plans or following intuitions- with creativity its challenges in learning boundaries, develop other competences and capacities, long time ago, IN EVERYWHERE.
Currently, you can find complains because, automatic tracking or spiders works as indexers, are not sensitive or have not accuracy, if you evaluate: search results, some times.
The internal or self motivation for participate or not, in this opcion: Google Co-op, designing, dreaming and finally, building, a meta search, little or complex, it will depends from life styles, carreer priorities, and LEISURE, available by each, potential expert, motivated to express his or her view points, in this new search engine.
Google Co-op, is not calling for experts or contributors. The experts are here, already, doing virtual life, creating feedback, themselves, before, show up, Google Co-op, as tool for help in this process.
“(…) What must we understand by author, or authoring role, in a scientific work or research?. Into grounds and fields of sciences authoring, had been linked to two principals elements: recognizing intellectual contribution, in an edition and social responsibility, assumed after publish this work or research. Moreover, in routinely praxis, into scientific activity, authoring has other additional functions, beyond academic and stricter frames. These functions are: social recognition ;(…) privilegiated place, as priority, for eventual funds or awards; (…) owner linkage; meritochratic promotion; retribution or compensation; responsibility (…)”
(This is our a fastest and free English version, coming from this original article, about Ethics and Authoring)
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(…)qué debemos entender por autor de un trabajo científico. En el terreno de la ciencia, la autoría ha estado ligada a dos elementos fundamentales, el reconocimiento al aporte intelectual que la publicación representa y a la responsabilidad social5,6 que se asume ante lo publicado.7 Sin embargo, en la práctica cotidiana de la actividad científica, la autoría cumple funciones adicionales que rebasan el marco estrictamente académico.8 Estas funciones son: Reconocimiento social; Establecimiento de prioridad; vínculo de propiedad; mérito de promoción. Retribución; Responsabilidad (…).
(Viñedo Tomey, Agustín: Ethical aspects in spread scientifics results. Ap en Rev. Educación Medica Superior 2002;16(4) Ed. Instituto de Ciencias Básicas y Preclínicas "Victoria de Girón". Available in URL: http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/ems/vol16_4_02/ems01402.htm)
"A bread is not the only thing, for keep or stay alive, a human person"... Stay alive is something more than physiological or economics processes… intangible factors are important too.
What kind of benefits, intangible benefits, acquires a single co-author, within this preliminary research or cooperative process, for build up, this flexible and new tool, named, Google Co-Op, customized thinking in his or her own, pleasure, self realization and capacity for make most easiest, selected contents, for emergent audiences or beginners, for example?
1. Significant or relevant opportunity to be concentrated in contents and contexts, relatives to a particular subject, NOT in technologies: minimizing technophobes impulses for blockade or disturb the creative process or capacity for identify a problem and try to find a new solution, applying systematic or intuitive visions, communicational strategies, priorizing his or her OWN unsatisfactory previous experiences, for obtain a much better or optimized solution, in cases when this person, have not -before interact with Google Co-op- programming skills, experiences or know how.
2. Encourage himself or herself, in creative competences, not only reproducing passive role, as information "consumer" or "user" information, NON customized or customizable by other, authors, with commons interests or priorities in a particular subject.
3. If we really – you and me, we, the human kind- are living or experimenting transitional contexts for assume a new paradigm, supporting in: ICTs, new technologies, emergent capacities for create compasses, process, understand and interpret, exponential grow in information flows, customized search engines, represent a possibility for survive to over communicated and non wish information as spam, freeding each other, increase stress levels, DAILY, ex post, this new process for build, single or as collective, the customized search engine.
4. If one person, contribute, with a creative performance to: “(…) social recognition (…); obtain a privilegiated place, as priority, for eventual funds or awards(…); owner linkage(…); meritochratic promotion(…); retribution or compensation(…); social responsibility(…)”, as citizen, business man or woman, member in a virtual community of expertise, probably, this person, is not the only one, beneficiary in this new step, for sciences, technologic appropriation and uses with prospective sense, in his or her, particular field, and within the current context of local and global, human development…exist other universe, different than narcissisms of authors.
The internet exists not only for backbone, as invisible net, exists because, persons, communities, nations invest resources for keep growing, acting and sharing. But sharing, producing, promoting, and storing, what? Contents.
If contents, provides by servers and platforms, are confuses, non actual, or are no showed in multiple ways- formats, moments and contexts- probably, you and me, stay doing other thing for spend time, working, managing o producing, information as critical factor, within knowledge’s production.
Into, non industrialized nations, people suffered the dictatorship of experts, ending 70s and early times, during lost decade, in 80s: smart guys from informatics or information sciences had all the control, inclusive after, when PCs were introduced in global markets.
Those computers with dozens of commands, and programming language, never resulted helped, useful, and valuable for ordinary small business man, or professors, outside computing sciences and its fields.
People in these “remotes” times was scared, imaging all these ODD and complex, additional information, pushing in their minds, trying to find a place, for be storaged. Only “nerds” and “wise” guys, get not only the talent, inclusive the volunteer, for follow this psycho-rigid routines or procedures, in times where birth lotus 123, and other tools, for process numerical information in offices. Artists, readers, writers, researchers in social sciences or humanities, were excluded, during this time, or only used the computer as a tool, for calculate, surveys or similar, activities, linked with statistical or quantitative researches.
Can you imagine current internet, only with formulas, commands, or numerical formalizations? NOT.
Local contents, permit to amateurs or beginners “ordinary people” -non high educated, probably non English speakers or with other handicap or disabilities- find, download or upload a picture, a video, a song, at the same time, they are recovering their human condition, thinking and acting as a person, not as a cyborg.
If knowledge is power, this effects only is possible, if people be intercommunicated, and information as basic element for decision-takers, show up, following determinates rules o principles -as accessibility, economy of time or space- for be SUCESSFUL processed, for massive audiences, empowered, within neo literacy skills, for understand and participate in build the reality and cyber worlds, as semiotics of possible worlds.
Cooperative learning, cross cultural exchanges, and the virtu, named currently as capital value of solidarity, are represented in the experience for promote, produce, storage, select, enjoy, the contents. This process is imposible as a human experience, if persons, eventually, don’t know…WHERE IS the appropriate content, for resolve a problem:
-Scientific
-Cultural
- Leisure time
Only thinking in that kind of benefits, I believe, Google Co-Op, is a giant step, in global understanding, a possibility for simplify, or complex, the velocity, the quality, the matters or subjets, linked not only to marketing, inclusive to chain of value, in general terms, for enterprises, social initiatives, entrepreneurs, non profit and educational organizations …
If internet is a buffet, and you and me, have not the skills, for serve, taste by ourselves, ALL the food and drinks available, in this global party, probably, its time to talk with chef, or other people with more experience, selection, indexing, cataloguing and develop, plates, drinks, for help us, to make possible with less effort, obtain, more gratifications, exciting, and successful, our decision to attend to this global party…
Probably, customize search engines, are going to help to kids, and young people into industrialized nations, but here, at South (Caribbean, Africa, Latin America, Asia or East Europe) the contribution of Google Co-Op, is going to affect or impact in other age groups, considering the proportion of functional illiteracy, existing in new technologies, the thin broadband, and factors as Peruvian telecenters and Internet clubs, where more than 80 users interact with a single computer and internet connection, ONLY (Source: UNDP: Inform about Human Development, 2001) because is impossible imagine, poor people, essentially concentrated in non industrialized nations, buying a computer in each family, when more than 50% its population: only earn ONE or TWO dollars by day.
Make easy, customizable, hopeful, three powerful reasons to keep, collaborating with Google Co Op, and other wises efforts for put heart and mind so close to audiences, users, following, Marketing 1 X 1.
Grow together, Create together, in the new economy and radical changes into the international divide for work, after show up knowledge’s worker (Drucker, 1991). If money are your objectives in Google Co Op, please, no try to blockade others, and click in the bottom in the extreme right, in this tool.
Kind regards,
Yoe F. Santos
Santiago de los Caballeros
April, 30th, 2007
http://www.yoesantos.com
