блог Congress on social movements and ICTs in Sevilla 2015

From 5 to 7 February 2015 the Pablo de Olavide and Ship Tramallol cooperative University will host the conference on ICTs and social movements in Seville 2015.

The ICT (activist use of new information technologies and communication) is becoming indispensable in practice and proposals of social movements and civil society.

The ICT plays a key role in social movements worldwide. Situations such as the Zapatista (1994) and anti-globalization movement (1999), are examples. At this, they have followed other ICT experiences as EDSA II Philippines protests (2001), the backlash to Venezuela (2002), the student revolts against First Employment Contract in France (2005), the Icelandic rebellion (2008 ), the African-Arab Spring (2010), the various Occupy in the Anglo world, unrest in UK or Geraçao À Scratch in Portugal (2011), the Mexican movement # Yosoy132 (2012) or, in the Spanish context, 13M (2004), the movement for Dignity (2006) Housing and 15M (2011). The global impact of ICT is simply spectacular.

For this reason, activists across the ICT experiences of great interest to academics and the activists themselves and social groups seeking to change the world from the streets and from social networks.

Repercussion of ICT

Move.net wants to be a meeting place for those looking to share theoretical analyzes, reflections, experiences, practices of activists and groups that reveal the social use of technology and encourage proposals and emancipatory ends. Move.net aims to become an area of ??academic reflection and social debate, bringing theory and practice in social and political use of ICT. In the form of biannual Congress, wants to be a meeting point for scholars, activists, NGOs, social movements and young start up to discuss the social and political appropriation of new technologies.