About
PhD Investigation:
Testing Virtual Communities against Poverty
Investigación de Doctorado:
Midiendo el potencial de las Comunidades Virtuales contra la Pobreza
Project:
Empowering Fair Tourism, International Cooperation & Codevelopment 2.0 among West Africa & Macaronesian Islands, making a cybernetic use of socioeconomic powerful tools against poverty:
- International cooperation, global conscience;
- ‘New’ tourisms: ecotourism, cultural tourism, scientific tourism, cooperation tourism, business tourism, venture tourism, outdoor & sports tourism, Ethical & Fair Tourism 2.0.
- Web 2.0, Social Media & Cybernetics: integrating people, information, work & technology (intercultural, transversal & permanent feedback, Public Relations, NSO);
- High Performance Working Systems & Creative Management;
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Expected: SOI + HPWS = Strategic Training for Sustainable Tourism I+D+i, new co-development opportunities & synergies |
Key words: Codevelopment 2.0, Fair Tourism 2.0, Cybernetics, Social Media, High Performance Working Systems (HPWS), Information Systems, Social Software
This is about Social Media & Web 2.0, click to See +…, in coherence with that kind of macroprojects: Satellite based Internet for the developing world, by Google Tech Talks (maybe you’ll notice the Connect Africa project… no relationships with our Conectafrica for the moment, we didn’t stole the name, I promiss 
, but we clearly have some common ideas)
See more Networking & International Cooperation HERE (in Spanish), Networking & H.R. HERE (Spanish & English), Networking & Fair Tourism HERE (French & English)
How & why does it work? Networking tutorial:
Are you interested in Networking samples? Please see the contacts/data base I found trough Turismo 2.0 Community, where I met Edu: the perfect partner for my work!
http://www2.netvibes.com/eduwilliam#Turismo_(ES) (It’s like a specific Google for me!)
And he shares a great application for Fair Tourism in Africa: www.destinum.com
Now I’m part of the virtual community Turismo 2.0 (the largest in the world? I’m investigating…) & of the strategic plan of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria PROA2020, where I’m getting some new contacts/data everyday.
In July, I decided to open Conectafrica’s Network on the Ning platform, please feel free to visit & join our codevelopment Network between Africa, the Canary Islands & the WWW.
Please feel free to visit my Universe too: 
How many applications for Fair Tourism? Fair Agency sample: What do YOU think?
Visit our friends in Keur Bamboung, Senegal. Great community & environment politics. www.oceanium.org
Visit our friends in Costa Rica; great community politics…
And great Marketing Politics…
Create a Blue Ocean Strategy in Four Steps
W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (2005): BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY, How to create uncontested market space & make the competition irrelevant. Harvard Business School Press.
Australian Casella wines created a blue ocean strategy that, in just two years, caused its wine to become the fastest growing brand in the histories of both the Australian and the U.S. wine industries and the number one imported wine into the United States, surpassing the wines of France and Italy.
Below are the steps they took to create a blue ocean strategy steps that any company can take to get out of the red ocean of competition:
1) Eliminate factors that the industry takes for granted but adds no perceived value to customers.
Casella Wines recognized that most wineries touted aging and tannin qualities, two factors that intimidated customers. Casella decided to focus their efforts on different qualities.
2) Reduce factors well below the industry.s standard to avoid the mistake of over delivering in order to beat the competition.
To avoid customer confusion, Casella Wines limited their offerings to just one white wine and one red wine.
3) Raise factors well above the industry.s standard so your customer won.t have to make compromises.
Casella Wines raised the involvement of retailers with it.s success by giving retail employees Australian outback clothing that made seem friendly instead of intimidating like other wines.
4) Create new sources of value that the industry has never offered.
Casella wines created new customer experiences for wine drinking: easy drinking, ease of selection, and a sense of fun and adventure.
+ Info Blue Ocean Strategy, please check PDF BOS
For more information about High Performance Working Systems (HPWS HERE)
See LINUX AD for the century
To be continued…
conectafrica said
15 days Networking Firts Hits
Key Contacts for my work: 4
http://www.eduwilliam.com
http://www.turismo20.com
http://greeningtourism.ning.com/
http://www.ucpa.com (Voir Fair Tourism-Commentaire 6)
Data/info/software/knowledge:
http://www2.netvibes.com/eduwilliam#Turismo_(ES) Tourism Data base ENORME!
http://www.destinum.com Interesting…
http://www.turismo20.com
http://greeningtourism.ning.com/
Feedback/Comentarios:
4 en français
1 en español (+ http://www.turismo20.com) Good start, let’s see…
conectafrica said
Conectafrica listed in Websites of the Month in June 2008, weitzenegger.de | International Development Cooperation
Virtual communities & fair tourism against poverty
http://conectafrica.wordpress.com
This Online PhD investigation on Fair Tourism really goes for tourism development in Africa, using Web 2.0 technology. It is in Spanish language.
Thanks!
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Sheryl Hobson said
Africa …. to be or not to be…. what a huge question, where can one begin ?
Well to start with it is essential to have a profound knowledge of it’s people, traditions, customs and history which vary so much from East to West and North to South ! I believe that the younger generation have a far better concept of what Africa should be when one and that it would be far more profitable to start putting back into this continent what we have over generations taken out.
Could it be possible that we may be to blame for some of the terrible conditions and the violence that now exists in some of the African countries ? Did we first go to this wonderful country only to rob it of all it’s natural resources as well as its people, that we are in many respects responsable ? What will be your answers ?
I had a rather good laugh when I thought of who might become the next President of the United States of America….., I wondered what Mr. Obahama’s origins were…., how they arrived in America …, where were they torn from…???
I then thought look what education, formation, determination, freedom and hope can do and of course financial investment.
We now have a generation of young people who are now realising that it is time to take care of these issues and combine the education of the locals so that they can exploit their own countries in the correct manner using one of the largest means of income for many of
these countries which is tourism .
Using tourism in the correct manner … creating employment for locals and showing them how to continue on there own, opens the doors to so many other domains , Hotels, Resorts, training centres for staff, new residences, Hospitals, schools…. teachers are needed
safe infra structures will be needed….
So what are we waiting for I am sure that out there some where there are people with the financial resources to help start a New Africa,
so if you are out there get in touch and help us get started ……..
conectafrica said
Thanks for this comment Sheryl & sorry for the delay but I’ve been quite busy here. (Good!)
Maybe you will like this video clip: “We, the people 2.0. Revolution March 17/06/2008 (this is History, Live):
Quite a wide point of view you offer…
I’m actually trying to convince & train some key people of my University to come on network, since “2.0 & Social Media” aren’t like “universally understood” at this point of our global history. But it’s coming fast! “A black face in the white house”, sounds like a good movie hehe… Let’s see how is the scenario like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjauAv6I-E8
I’m wondering if Obama will go this march?
Anyway, education, formation, self determination, freedom, creativity, hope, this is all coming trough internet now, so let’s network!
Pleae keep in contact & making comments.
Kind regards,
Stef
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cheritycall said
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I created this blog about that subject:
on http://tinyurl.com/556poc
conectafrica said
Thanks for your comments my friends, & I agree your point about fashion Cheritycall: punk it!