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The transformation to sustainability and/as ways to happiness

What seems to be heard most often are the environmentalists predicting doom, and the deniers and delayers arguing that change would hurt us, personally and economically.Recently, we see an emergent understanding that a transformation to sustainability is actually not just about hard choices for "saving the planet," but about ways in which human happiness can ...learn more

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12. Timeline/Phases of Implementation

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Return to Working Plan for Taking WiserEarth in Multiple Languages

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Example from taking WiserEarth into Spanish

 

Phase I: Translation of WiserEarth platform into Spanish

  • Review all widely spoken languages to generate a short list - could be these here
  • Seek out partners and power-users to guage interest / funding in the short list languages
  • Seek out US based funders for languages on short list where there is a prospective partner and power-user base
  • In parallel develop Indigenous language localization plan (which would be a separate less onerous but similar process)
  • Set goals - # of users, # of resources, # of groups, # of org edits etc
  • Sign MOU/MOA with key partner org(s)
  • Get power users to agree to be Admins / Editors
  • Summit of key players at NCI or in-country - culture transfer, community building, q&a, support etc
  • Translate fields / FAQs / FOAs with help of key partners and power users
  • Assure all organizations are listed and correct with help of key partners / internets / paid external party
  • Partner org builds outreach efforts - key conferences / training for NGOsetc.
  • Review progress against goals

Phase II:  Integration Infrastructure to successfully implement social networks.

1) Research and Development
  • Research and Analysis of best practices and success stories for building successful social networks
  • Development of a guide for the successful creation of social networks
2) Strategic Alliances
Define and sign up agreements with key organizations to start the development of social networks within the selected organizations.

3) Infrastructure.
  • Create two new legal entities devoted to the creation of social networks (for profit and non profit) in order to assure sustainability in the mid term
  • Define Governability structure
  • Define the integration of three main centers to foster the creation of social networks
    - Center for Technology Development
    - Center for Education and Social Technologies
    - Center for Social Innovation
  • Hire and train the personal

Phase III:         Implementation of the selected Social Networks

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bowo about 1 year ago

In WiserEarth in Spanish: What will it take?, Juan (jckaiten) explain the phases:

 

 

Develop some phases with key people in charge

Phase 1

  • Translate the main database of templates for registering, creating groups, adding a file, create a wiki page, etc.
  • Translate the taxonomy of the groups of focus and adapt it to the Latin American context.
  • Define what the best strategy in terms of having a site that integrates WiserEarth in a multilingual platform is, or define if it will be necessary to have a separate site for each language.
  • Define what the critical mass of Spanish translated articles is in order to have a separate site in case that decision is taken.


Phase 2

  1. Define the governability structure for and editing group
  2. Select the members of the governability group
  3. Research for the best translating tools available at the moment
  4. Define a strategy and a process to foster the participation of organizations in Wiser Earth in Spanish.


Phase 3

  • Define the specific funding needs in order to have a technical support group for the Spanish area.
  • Define the funding needs to support the strategy and process to foster participation in the Spanish speaking world in Wiser.
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