The new technologies move too fast to be spread through the university cycle. With a free development space near the city, knowledge will distill over it and will create local specialists
As we can see in India, educating in software development can create richness and employment. A good internet connection, tiem to learn and a friend that knows a bit can help us to become software experts and enter into the international market, taking with us the needs and particularities of our local environment.
Local software experts could:
- help NGOs, schools, universitities to provide their users with online services
- create new employment
- reduce cost of softwre development, expensive because of the lack of local knowledge
- export software development to other countries across the internet.
This project aims to create a software cultivation space in a natural environment, along and not against nature, following the principles of permaculture, that will impact also in the kind of software developed-planned for the urban spaces.
The recipe is very simple:
- Free Internet access
- Collective/open working spaces
- Visits-residences for specialists
- Conferences and workshops of this visitors
- An infrastructure that allows meetings of projects spread around the country
- Interest groups, forums, open to the teenagers/adults of the locality
- video / radio
- web
- sustainable building
- Informal knowledge distribution spaces:
- Cultural space – bar with installations and movies
- Open medialab with free tools ready to use
- Video edition island, cameras, plateau
- Own media (radio, print, web) to share with the local initiatives
- Bookstore
- Shop
- Conferences, workshops in collaboration with universities and technical schools
- inserted in the local students plans
- Documentation of use/development of software, space organization, delocalised development groups, etc.