Week number 4! ;-) Getting great!

We are at the fourth week now and all I can say it's just 'Wow', time has passed so quickly! I know it's too early but want to say that by now I learned a lot of things especially about the team work activity. This week was mainly based about discussing and finding some crowd sourcing sites for the Gogorobì Foundation. It was nice and even interesting since I discovered a lot of new sites which everybody could use to get stronger in the business activities. What I didn't appreciate about this week was the organization again. It took us a lot to get on the google hangout with the two members of NGO and when we did it, it was difficult to talk with them since the sound quality was terrible. All the time we lost to do this, brought us to end the lesson late which I don't find really fair.

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I strongly believe in the Social Networks. They helped me a lot in my life, not only to get in touch with my friends from many parts of the world but also to discover some new places by going to the events or ceremonies always organized by the people I know. This is meant especially for Facebook which I consider a really powerful tool for finding relationships between people but also a good way for the crowd sourcing. Yeah, I commonly use also the online spaces to find and harvest information but I consider myself more as an individual that uses this spaces to interact with other individuals.

Another Week! :-) (Digital identity and technological knowledge)

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OK!.....The second week of Project Community was quite confusing and unorganized. We had a meeting again with the two members of NGO but it took us a lot of time before really starting a real 'conversation'. What I found really hilarious was that yesterday we were ask to think and work about our digital identity and technological knowledge but we didn't know how to have a hang out on Google +. :-P

This week was basically based on making an evaluation about the Gogorobì Foundation by using a spider diagram and to come up with some questions to ask to the members. Yeah, the questions were good and interesting but making the spider diagram was quite difficult for me as I, and probably also my team, didn't know quite a lot about the Foundation. We had to judge it on some values we didn't really understand. The questions we made arrived to us in few seconds but meanwhile we already have published the diagram on the website.

Talking about my tools and skills, I don't really consider myself a genius in this area despite I already have some nice experiences with technology. I even studied some computer programming such as HTML, CSS or PHP but just as a passion. Then, what else?...... I really enjoy using photoshop and discovering some nice techniques to modify the images and I practiced a bit on CAD and just had some fun on Google SketchUP.  I like creating the presentations, draw and using social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. Both of them but especially Facebook is a way to keep in contact with some of my friends that are from many parts of the world. Who knows?....maybe one day I will need to go in a country where I got a friend and this would facilitate a lot my staying and my life. But Facebook cannot substitute the real life! I believe that on the Social networks an individual can be and present himself as he or she likes, with many personalities but in real life, with real people it's different, it is not possible to do it anymore. So basically I think social networks have some negative aspects but they do also have some positive ones as I mentioned before.

Spider diagram of the Gogorobì Foundation

First Week!

Sooo...let's begin! :-)


Yesterday morning I had my first class of Project Communities. My group and I were asked to talked about a challange we were assigned and ask a question to two members of NGO, Maggie and Alan. Our challange was based on the issues that are involving the Gogorobi Foundation, more specifically about fundraising and network expansion. We, as a team, had to find a possible fundraising strategy  to keep the storytelling tradition of Curacao and the Caribbean. What we came up with was to improve some of the ideas the company already had, such as the website itself. We would like to make people more attracted to this company and any other solutions to this problem are well accepted...... ;-)
We were thinking also about organising musical shows and making people more interested in the music of those lands. We believe that music can be a really powerfull way to express the thoughts and desires of the community.

What we did yesterday, I found it amazing and I hope I'm going to learn a lot from this. Project Communities appeared to me as a way to open my mind to new things. I found it interesting not only because we are engaged in issues of the Gogorobi Foundation but also because we are working in a team and developing our teamwork skills, which I think is one of the most important reuirements for an individual when he or she starts to setting up or just working for a company.
I believe that the purpose of this course is not just answering to the questions that are given us but it's something more complex and interesting. It's a strategy with which we learn through the use of comunication, sharing of ideas, creativity, our attitudes and also the use of the networks and online communities to face at the best the oportunities and the problems the world offers us. 
Secondly, I find myself very optimistic and I hope my members will agree with me in the future. I hope this course is going to teach us a lot about ourself and help us to get always better. As I am exploring during this time the different themes of online communities and networks I want to learn all the best ways to face my future problems and come up with all the possible design solutions.
Moreover, I wish that at the end of our work our team is going to be as one individual. Group of people in one person! I hope we are all going to have fun and learn, besides the Project Community course, also about each other. We are more all less coming from different countries with different cultures, traditions, religions and I personally want to learn how the world beatifully differs. 

Talking about me, I'm an Italian guy who arrived to The Hague two weeks ago for the first time and he is trying to get an idea of how is life outside his country!I am an Internation Baccalaureate student from Italy and I remember that in my school, during the service activities from CAS (Creativity, Action, Service), we were trained on finding any possible solutions to get money for example for poor people.
All the CAS hours I did changed me a lot and made me more aware of the problems facing my country and the world itself. Therefore, I will use my experiences and all my qualities of a young open innovator to find a solution to this problem and help to mantain the tradition.

WORK IN PROGRESS! (Just made the blog!) ;-)