The New Haiti Project Port-au-Prince Conference
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The New Haiti Project Port-au-Prince Conference is a repeated physical gathering that calls all of Haiti to a location in Port-au-Prince to participate with the current and long term design and development of the country's Internet environment.
We will create a French and Creole pages eventually, but until then, here is a translator for you to use to read.
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[edit] Pre-conference objects of discussion
Please help to round these subjects out before the conference.
[edit] What is working on the Internet?
From Wikipedia, when we refer to working on the Internet, we mean using "web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web."
Working ideas, designs, architectures and developing solutions on the Internet makes large efforts more efficient, cost less, and increases quality of result that people manage as friends and teammates, rather than adversaries. All of these - and more - are made possible by open software (web applications) that is available on the Internet for organizing people, processes and information. Open software costs nothing, as well as using the Internet, where the creation of organizing people, processes and information is only limited by the creativity a simple individual, from where ever you sit with your computer; you don't need to go through approval and "red-tape" to begin to work on the Internet.
[edit] What is the New Haiti Project?
The New Haiti Project is an Internet environment that works with all organizations and people together, whether they reside in Haiti or somewhere else in the world; this, for an integrated and collective interest in skills and knowledge application in the country. The New Haiti Project doesn't reject your presence because you come from a different organization; it is not competitive. As an environment, it isn't profit or non-profit. The New Haiti project - while it is world wide - is driven by the Haitian community, for the long range development of reconstruction, and systems thinking and organizational learning within the country.
How did it originate? We talk about that the New Haiti Project belongs to the people of Haiti, and is a world-wide effort that the country shares.
We show the current structure, and ideas for the projected structure currently. We explain that this is a very long term project to evolve with Internet technologies that are free.
[edit] Why is systems thinking important to the project?
One reason is because your ideas are important, no matter what walk of life you come from in Haiti, or where you live, or how much money you make. All together, for everyone's ideas to be valuable, each idea must be considered on a large enough scale, where it definitely has a place, if not immediately. In an environment like the Internet and with Web 2.0, we can suspend many ideas at one time in context, as they are re-learned, re-discovered, and refined. We use the tools like wiki and social networking to make them known and work together.
[edit] How can you begin to participate right away?
This is very easy. We have two main locations. One of them is our .com site, where one strength is the chat engine, and you can talk face-to-face with people on the team, please visit; there is usually somebody there to chat with, and ask questions. Another way, is to go to our social network and environment, and see what other people have begun to create. Here the environment is open for you go chat and begin to build right away with your ideas in groups that exist or you create, using discussions and blogging, and we do have a wiki for you to use. And if you have a large scale idea for collaborating on the Internet, like starting a social fabric for your city in Haiti, you can create an environment of your own in less than a minute, and then link it to the central TNHP.
[edit] At the conference
[edit] Where and when
The current plan is April 15, and in PauP.
[edit] Schedule
[edit] Speakers
We do need speakers at the conference from the team. Please put yourself down if you think you will be there.
