Category Archives: Democracy

How to Start a Revolution

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

How to Start a Revolution is a portrait of how millions of people can make a difference to their own lives if they are only given the resources to do it. It also shows how social media and the web … Continue reading →

Posted in Democracy, Movimientos sociales, Revolution, Social change, Social innovation, Social learning, Social movements | Tagged democracy, dictatorship, movimientos sociales, revolution, social change, social innovation, social learning, social movements | Leave a comment

Invocación ciudadana y política educativa

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Podemos decir que nuestra vía a la democracia post dictadura ha estado de manera importante sustentada en un temor al desacuerdo, permaneciendo, de manera invariables, procedimientos e instituciones excluyentes, pero que tienen la virtud de darle estabilidad al régimen político, … Continue reading →

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#yeswecamp: nosotros sí podemos

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read Las TIC han generado posibilidades reales de participación: “No somos los mismos desde que estamos en las redes sociales”, decía Castells en motivo de la revolución Egipcia. Las redes sociales, abundantes en posibilidades de participación, han causado un empoderamiento … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, Community organizing, Democracy, Digital activism, ICT technologies | Tagged digital activism, e-participation, ict | Leave a comment

Local Democracy, Rural Community, and Participatory School Governance

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read This article considers the indigenization of democracy by conceptualizing participatory deliberative decision-making practice as a tool to strengthen the functioning of local schools and to enhance democratic responsiveness within communities. Drawing on case-studies of bottom-up approaches to school governance, … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, Change methods, Community, Democracy, Participation, Poverty, Power, Schools | Tagged communities, participation, schools | Leave a comment

From Dictatorship to Democracy – A Conceptual Framework for Liberation

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

One of my major concerns for many years has been how people could prevent and destroy dictatorships. The sense of pathos and outrage against the brutalities, along with admiration of the calm heroism of unbelievably brave men and women, were … Continue reading →

Posted in Civil society, Democracy, Social change, Social innovation, Social learning, Social movements | Tagged democracy, dictatorship, social change, social innovation, social learning, social movements | Leave a comment

Reworking the web, reworking the world – how web 2.0 is changing our society

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read The Web 2.0 phenomena in a sentence: lower communication costs have led to opportunities for more inclusive, collaborative, democratic online participation. As the costs of communicating online decreased, more people, in terms of million, decided that it was worth … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, Communication, Conversations, Democracy, Dialogue, Social change, Web 2.0 | Tagged communication, social change, web2.0 | Leave a comment

Governance, Complexity and Democratic Participation

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read This article applies complexity theory to urban governance. It is argued that expert-based, hierarchical-instrumental policy making encounters insurmountable obstacles in modern liberal democracies. One of the root causes of this erosion of output legitimacy is the complexity of social … Continue reading →

Posted in Action research, Change, Complexity, Complexity & change, Democracy, Governance, Participation, Participatory action research, Participatory methods | Tagged complexity, democracy, governance, participation | Leave a comment

Creative Democracy – Wisdom Councils at Work

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

“Our movements are trying to create a politics that challenges all the certainties of traditional leftist politics, not by replacing them with new ones, but by dissolving any notion that we have answers, plans or strategies that are watertight or … Continue reading →

Posted in Community development, Creativity, Democracy, Social change, Social innovation, Social learning | Tagged creativity, democracy, social change, social innovation, social learning | Leave a comment

Informing Communities – Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read Technologies for acquiring and disseminating news and information are changing rapidly. Emerging media have become amazing forces for enabling people to connect. But their full potential is not yet realized in the service of geographic communities, the physical places … Continue reading →