[Air-l] Making history

[Michel J. Menou]

I am struck by the "Primacy syndrome" that seems to affect many Internet 
enterprises.
First research group, First academic program, First communities of some 
sort, First you name it ...
As if being, or having been, the first or one of the first matters over 
such a short period, except for the analysis of the genesis and history 
of ideas.

The latter might show by the way the dominant influence of real world 
structures, linguistic, academic, demographic, economical, competitive, 
etc. on the cyberworld.

Without any intention to downplay the value and role of OCS, I'd like to 
mention that the virtual community Mistica -*M*ethodology and *S*ocial 
*I*mpact of the *I*nformation and *C*omunication *T*echnologies in 
*A*merica  (http://funredes.org/misitica) started in February 1999 and 
has been quite effective in catalyzing Latin American and Caribbean 
views about the social impact of ICT in the region.

Michel Menou

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> Folks,
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> The Observatory for the CyberSociety (OCS) is one of the first
> Knowledge Digital Communities --Like Aoir..    ;-)   -- arisen in the
> Ibero-American area
> dedicated to studying and analyze about the relations among the
> sociocultural dimension of the cyberspace and the Information and
> Communication Technologies (ICT). 
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Dr. Michel J. Menou
Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management
Adviser of Somos at Telecentros board http://www.tele-centros.org
Member of the founding steering committee of 
Telecenters of the Americas Partnership http://www.tele-centers.net/
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