Aspiration Blog

Jun 3, 2015

Construyendo capacidad en español: ¿Que se pierde en la traducción?

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La mayoría del tiempo, la comunidad latin@ enfrenta desafíos de acceso a la tecnología. Las herramientas tecnológicas han sido, y siguen siendo diseñadas para usuarios que hablan inglés, y también son muy costosas para las comunidades migrantes en California. Esto es especialmente cierto entre organizaciones sin fines lucrativos que trabajan en servicio de comunidades latin@s.

Escuchando a las organizaciones sin fines lucrativos a través del estado de California, nos dimos cuenta de la necesidad de una colaboración en diseñar y facilitar talleres tecnológicos en español. Para empezar, durante los meses de Marzo y Abril estuvimos localizando nuestros talleres de comunicación en linea ya existentes. Organizamos nuestro primer taller en español en Los Angeles con la ayuda de IDEPSCA, el 8 de mayo del 2015. Los recursos están disponibles aquí. A continuación encontrarán algunas de las cosas que aprendimos durante el taller en Los Angeles.

javier

May 19, 2015

CA Roadshow: Building strategies for technology use

Social Justice Tech Skillshare mind-mapping After a week on the road, JC and I are back from this year's first California Training Roadshow. We ventured from the Bay to Bakersfield, then continued on to Los Angeles where we met Misty and hosted two interactive events with local nonprofits and organizers. To kick things off, fifteen people joined us on May 6th for the Social Justice Technology Skillshare. We started the day by creating a mind-map of what topics to address and questions to answer. An interesting distribution of topics emerged compared to previous years.

javier

May 19, 2015

Beyond broadcast in communications for organizers

In early May, a few of us ventured down to Los Angeles to host a Social Justice Technology Skillshare. In one of the sessions, we explored what people learned while doing communications in service of community organizing efforts. We invited people to gather around a big piece of blank paper and populate it with their tips, challenges, and ambitions in applying online communications to on-the-ground efforts. The question that guided the conversation was:

How can online communications move beyond one-way broadcasting, and instead support conversations and relationship-building in service of organizing efforts?

May 15, 2015

Recursos de comunicaciones en español | Communications training resources in Spanish

Realizamos nuestro primer entrenamiento en español el 8 de mayo, del 2015, en Los Angeles, CA con IDEPSCA. El entrenamiento se enfoco en cubriendo comunicaciones en linea para organizadores comunitarios. Hablamos de los diversos canales de comunicacion, temas como el tono y evaluacion de audiencias, y luego los procesos vinculados a los objetivos estratégicos de la organización.

javier

Apr 30, 2015

Reframing response at the Humanitarian Tech Festival

The Humanitarian Technology Festival on May 9 and 10 is Aspiration's first foray of participatory event methodologies into the digital response space. We hope that this event supports creative dialogues and capacity building in humanitarian aid and disaster response efforts. In a recent blog on Civic Media, Willow explains the framing of this program and event:

"The very way we deliver aid perpetuates the need for more aid... When people need lodging after a hurricane, they're either told to evacuate and/or they're put into temporary homes, away from neighbors and family. There is little impetus to return and rebuild both social and tangible structures. People are uprooted, and must start from scratch. When, instead, we see that people don't just need lodging but in fact need social fabric, responders (and the technologies used for response) can focus on how to maintain family and neighborhood ties."

Our latest Policy Leadership Cohort is underway!

Construyendo capacidad en español: ¿Que se pierde en la traducción?

CA Roadshow: Building strategies for technology use

Beyond broadcast in communications for organizers

Recursos de comunicaciones en español | Communications training resources in Spanish

Reframing response at the Humanitarian Tech Festival

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