Ladies and gentlemen of the media, authorities, bloggers and experts in TYC's.:
Along With warm greetings, we headed to PC. on the occasion of our celebration of the 150th anniversary of our community of Taltal (12 July 1858-2008), the second region of the country, about an initiative that we are very proud, and perhaps a little tired but very optimistic in light of the results. The project is a system of wireless networks (WiFi), open to the community, in a free and funded by the municipality through a municipal council and especially through the support of sr. Guillermo Ocampo Hidalgo, mayor of the commune. Our town has about 13,000 inhabitants, but the floating population that the development of mining has brought to our land and sea. This initiative is 100% taltalina, and is based on technical and technological means of open source and free software. Ie, no paid leave and all program development, monitoring, and training is part of the global community that believes in the existence of freedom of information, communication and partnering through networks, and in this particular , digital networks and their impact on the real physical world.
is part of our character as a people and as a country, the difficulties experienced this type of project, especially from within the rigid institutional structures that maintain the precarious balance in contemporary societies, in favor of conglomerates and multinationals. Sin embargo, imposed on these difficulties and develop a project that benefits the community, mainly families and young people do not have the formality or the money to connect privately, bridging the digital divide, bring the process of digital literacy or simply being able to navigate the content, symbols and spaces of the dimension of the digital. It is well known the impact it has had on mankind, the global Internet network, specifically in the area of \u200b\u200bsocialization unlimited space-time addition to the fields of science, telecommunications, finance and economics. Despite having a very dark side, as any moon borrows its light from a celestial body larger (the genius and human creativity in its entirety), the Internet when it comes to education and personal and community development can offer advantages and benefits are still unexpected, since this stage of human development is in progress, and because we are a developing country, the reach and new strategies for the new Web 2.0 onwards can be seen in its impact on national circumstances present in the penguin revolution, the international development of SMEs in el arte y la cada vez mayor preponderancia de las coyunturas locales a favor de la descentralización o la redistribución de la información, en causas sociales, ecológicas o reivindicaciones políticas de variados segmentos de la población. Es importante señalar que como todo proyecto, la WiFi comunitaria de Taltal ha tenido sus contratiempos, inconvenientes, pero dentro de las plataformas de trabajo basadas en los sistemas Linux_Unix, se ha podido solucionar de manera eficaz y en corto tiempo, además de a muy bajo costo para las arcas fiscales-municipales en términos globales del proyecto($12.000.000).
Taltal lleva seis meses conectado a una red inalámbrica social comunitaria, y es mucha la gente que se has benefited, or used this system to navigate, learn, communicate, relate, be introduced to the global network without paying for it, without social or gender differences and generational for your connection, just telling the time with the necessary equipment. It is true that not everyone has a PC desktop or a laptop, but so is the effort of many poor parents who see their children in navigating corners in groups with their friends, and have realized project projections. We are a small team, very small, but we want to show the country that can connect people to the network, which is only at the expense of a small but valuable effort and to mobilize the political will to the extent that the ways of social and political go hand in hand. That's why we are writing to you, the media and authorities, because we need the attention of our own community, and the country in general, because it can progress and integration, from all sectors and segments of society especially the least favored by the market and real politik immediately to the T and C `s so that democracy no longer just a word macro or used in election periods. This is a small step that has been very small, but it is a point that can serve as a reference and precedent for other projects and initiatives that are born from citizenship and the people, to strengthen and build bridges between the crowds, increase citizen participation or simply increase the social capital that is often the last indicator when making decisions about community development.
is why we ask them to use their power in the mainstream media to publicize this work, since we as a community to help overcome the little obstacles that still thrive in favor of a divided Chile, that through his own screens, pages and broadcasts can be seen as impaired fragmented. There are half a dozen initiatives of this kind in Chile, where municipalities have been the resources and expertise to groups of people can establish networks for the community as part of the digitization process. Our community is nevertheless one of the smaller, with fewer resources and perhaps the most unknown at this time. Tomorrow will honor 150 years of official existence, a move from the glory of nitrate, the beauty of our sea and desert, the mining boom and the abandonment by the distance. Our people are courageous and calm, and firmly believe in the ability of people to develop through the tools and freedom to deliver the network, empowered people through online social networks and open source. We are starting out and need your attention and cooperation, as this not only can we bring ourselves to the revolution and the digital society, but the entire region and perhaps the country initiatives to democratize the Internet, state and human communication in general . Waiting
capture their attention and begging for your help, our most sincere thanks, I remain yours
Christian Alvarez Santos
technical project manager and
Gabriel Figueroa Yanssen
Anthropology ARCIS
http Valparaiso : / / wifi.taltal.cl
http://wificomunitaria.blogspot.com
