Integrated development
Integrated development to end poverty
A plan to integrate global best practices into a program that is ultimately self-financing and can be deployed everywhere, to solve all of the problems of poverty, including education, health, economic opportunity, community, spiritual development, human rights, and peace.
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Created: Nov 03, 2008
Updated: Mar 30, 2009
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Theresa Williamson
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From my formal "bio":
Theresa Williamson founded Catalytic Communities (CatComm, www.catcomm.org), in 2000, and has worked as Executive Director since. Winner of the 2006 Tech Awards from the Tech Museum of Innovation in Silicon Valley, CatComm uses technology to link grassroots community groups in Rio de Janeiro and around the world so they can learn from each other's successes and support one another's work. In this role, she oversees all program strategy, development and activity. She is liaison to the Board of Directors, and oversees staff responsible for day-to-day organizational management.
In May 2004 Theresa received her Ph.D. from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Entitled Catalytic Communities: The Birth of a Dot Org, her dissertation won the 2005 Gill-Chin Lim Award for Best Dissertation on International Planning and was one of three finalists for the 2004 Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for the Best Dissertation in Planning. She has published articles from this dissertation and related research in Progressive Planning, The Journal of Urban Technology, and Cidadania.org. Prior to her doctoral research and decision to found CatComm, Theresa had been active in a number of movements for years, since the early age of 12. Theresa’s undergraduate degree was in Biological Anthropology, with concentrations in Environmental Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies, from Swarthmore College. Though raised in the Washington, DC area, Theresa is a dual Brazilian and British citizen and lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with her husband Marcos and toddler daughter, Kay. They recently spent her husband’s sabbatical year (July 2007-2008) in Oxford, UK.
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Oi Theresa, Tudo bem! Voce lembra quando a gente se encontrou em Manaus falou sobre a traducao do site de wiser earth. Eu falei que fiz parte de um curso no Brasil. Os participantes estao agora no site Wiser Earth (em ingles). Estou querendo fazer o test...Voce pode entrar em contato comigo e guiar como colocar esse grupo no seu site em portugues -- porque eles estao sofrendo (deeeemaiiiiissss) com a ingles agora. Me mande email wendylin@ufl.edu">wendylin@ufl.edu se puder. Um Beijo, Wendy-Lin |
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Oi Theresa tudo bem? me ajuda a achar a pagina do ESPA . preciso dos arquivos que vc fez de memoria do grupo de trabalho pois perdi meu pen drive Obr Luis Meneses |
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Hi Theresa,
I think you may be interested in our organization: Ethical Expeditions. We'd love to have you as a member and to follow our upcoming expedition to Borneo with a group of students.
All the best,
Brent Loken President Ethical Expeditions - Conserving our natural world through education |
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Amazing bio, Theresa! What would be interesting for me, or the group I am working with, is the development of a new approach to substance flow management in towns/cities. Presently almost all supplies are brought into town and all waste are transported out, either on roads, rails, or in pipes. This generates a lot of problems: energy, space consumption, air pollution, water pollution, noise... and is very inefficient. It leads to so inattractive cities, that all those who can afford it live outside and add to the confusion, consumption, pollution and inefficiency with their commuting. The question is how to make the system more efficient. My perspective starts from water. That is what I am working at. Water first appears in agglomerations as rainwater. Presently rainwater is at best evacuated without causing any dammage. how to make use of it. The UK is leading in what they call SUDS or sustainable urban drainage systems. Then we pipe potable water into towns, we use it once and subsequently evacuate it again. The water evacuated contains nutrients and energy, which are not only lost, but cause either high cost to be removed in a wastewater treatment plant or dammage to the environment and actually most often both. Seems extremly inefficient. How to reuse the water several times locally? How to use the nutrients on site in urban agriculture? How to extract the energy or organic matter as such and make use of it without creating a transport problem? There are a few solutions already available, which are worth dissemination and a lot of research needs to be done. What I described above probably needs the integration of water and agriculture and probably also housing, urban planning. Next integrations could be solid waste management. Other sectors will follow. In Australia architects have developed the discipline of restaurative buildings. In Austria we are working at energy plus buildings, i.e. buildings not consuming but generating extra energy. Another sector to be integrated. Looking forward to exchanges on these and related topics. Best regards, Martin |
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Olá Theresa, Contato mantido! Como estão os trabalhos no Rio de Janeiro? Um abraço, Newton |
I am Mary Barreto
I am a Human-Computer Interaction Master student from Carnegie Mellon University/University of Madeira (joint program).
I am taking a course known as Social Web and one of the objectives is to analyze, study and learn from Online Communities.
I chose WiserEarth because it gathers different interesting areas related to empowerment of communities. My background as a Psychologist and some of the research done in Community Psychology guided my interest into your project Catalytic Communities.
The reason I am emailling you is because I am interested in doing an interview with some members of the community (WiserEarth and Catalytic Communities). The study Im doing integrates itself more in the lines of ethnography research. Would you be available to answer some questions related WiserEarth/Catalytic Communities and how it has established itself as an online community?
Thank you for your attention,
Mary Barreto
MHCI Carnegie Mellon University