miércoles, 2 de diciembre de 2020
lunes, 30 de noviembre de 2020
domingo, 27 de septiembre de 2020
jueves, 28 de mayo de 2020
Three, two, one… On air! On air? Yes, on air!
When
Cable News Network, CNN, was 20 years old 20 years ago, it posted an very
understable interactive feature (I did not find the 20-year commemorative but
the 25-year one, instead)about how
it operated from its newsroom to the communications engeneering that allows it
to have global coverage. One of the things I wondered of, how it organizes when
there is the famous breaking news.
CNN,
which broadcast started on June 1st, 1980, born as an improbable
entrepreneurship, loses wherever you saw, pushed by a neurotic Atlanta,
GA-native magnate named Robert Edward Turner III, Ted Turner for friends.
No
one gave a dollar for a 24-hour news channel initially broadcasting from a
basement. No one impressed of its informative power even when it moved to Omni
Hotels compound facilities, partially renamed as CNN Center later, in Atlanta
Downtown, the home of the one most popular sodas in the planet. No one belief
the small cable market would make a difference.
No
one until 1991, when the world realized it was CNN-adict to know what was
happening in the Middle East during the Gulf War, the first warlike conflict
practically broadcast globalwide on live-TV, and that redefined the notion of
journalistic inmediacy, covering the story as it happens in the same instant it
is happening. And covering a live-story is not an easy job. If not watch this
clip:
Like
every respectable newsroom, CNN has the space organized by topics: domestic,
international, business, politics, etc. Each one has a section editor, which
job is reviewing the work of the entire crew, selecting the most interesting
and important, upgrading another level in charge of a senior editor, who sets
the agenda we receive everyday.
Nothing
extraordinary until here because that is made in every newsroom. When there is
breaking news, the thing changes completely right there. The secttion editors
give the position to the senior editor, becoming part of the crew they lead,
and it’s this senior editor who organizes the whole coverage with an only
purpose – checking the news fact as it breaks, and once the fact-checking
protocols were accomplished, go releasing, or coordinating to the line producer
for addressing the on-air presenter.
According
to Live From Baghdad motion picture
(HBO, 2002) and a story on Time
magazine on January 1992 (which excerpt was lended to me by one of my
Journalism teachers, María Luisa Portugal), during the Gulf War, Turner as well
as his CEO Tom Johnson took the editorial control of the network during the
historic broadcast on January 16th, 1991 (when the Desert Storm
Operation started), because they were aware the entire world –the entire
world!—was watching CNN. It was the first time it was happening, so reducing
the error margin was their main task. Here is the original broadcast of that
afternoon (17:00 EST):
Independently
the ideologic criticism it receives everywhere, when the news are breaking in
this right instant, many people even tune CNN around the globe to know how the
story is developing, and, of course, very few people are aware of the crew
behind making that happens.
Indeed,
since 1980s-ending and more emphatically in the 1990s, the around-the-clock,
around-the-globe news channels offer has multiplied, so options are to choose,
but the live-story formula has not suffered from major modifications, except
the technology wwhich it is broadcast, smaller each time, enormous each chance.
And 40 years later, CNn, the news channels, the journalists have a great story
to cover, especially when the world asks more than understands.
Tres, dos, uno… ¡al aire! ¿Al aire? ¡Sí, al aire!
Cuando la estadounidense Cadena de Noticias por Cable, CNN por sus
siglas en inglés, cumplió veinte años de vida hace veinte años, publicó un
especial interactivo (que no encontré por ningún lado) bien didáctico sobre
cómo operaba desde su sala de redacción hasta la ingeniería de
telecomunicaciones que le permite tener cobertura global. Una de las cosas que
a mí me llamó la atención es cómo se organiza cuando hay noticias de último
minuto, las famosas “Breaking News”.
La CNN, cuyas transmisiones comenzaron el 1 de
junio de 1980 (y 24 horas en español el 17 de marzo de 1997), nació como un
emprendimiento improbable, a pérdida por donde se le viera, empujado por un
neurótico magnate de Atlanta, estado de Georgia, al sureste de los Estados
Unidos, llamado Robert Edward Turner III o Ted Turner para los patas, panas,
parces o cuates.
Nadie daba un dólar por un canal de noticias 24
horas emitiendo inicialmente desde un sótano. Nadie se impresionó de su poder
informativo incluso cuando se mudó a las instalaciones del complejo de hoteles
Omni, parte del que luego se renombró como Centro CNN, en todo el ‘downtown’ de
Atlanta, la tierra de una de las gaseosas de cola más populares del planeta.
Nadie creía que el reducido mercado del cable
haría una diferencia.
Nadie hasta que en 1991, el mundo descubrió que
era CNN-dependiente para saber qué estaba pasando en el Oriente Medio durante
la I Guerra del Golfo, el primer conflicto bélico transmitido por televisión a
nivel global prácticamente en vivo. Y eso redefinió el concepto de inmediatez
periodística, cubrir la historia tal como pasa en el mismo instante que está
pasando. Y cubrir una noticia en vivo no es chamba fácil; si no, mira este
clip:
Como toda sala de redacción que se respeta, CNn
tiene el espacio organizado por temas: noticias nacionales, internacionales,
economía, política, etc. Cada una tiene un responsable o editor, cuya tarea es
revisar el trabajo de todo su equipo, seleccionar lo más interesante e
importante y subirlo a otro nivel a cargo de un editor principal quien
determina la agenda de noticias que recibimos todos los días.
Hasta ahí nada de extraordinario porque eso se
hace en todas las redacciones de noticias; Cuando hay historias urgentes, la
cosa cambia por completo en su sala de redacción. Los editores de sección ceden
su puesto al editor principal, pasan a ser parte del equipo que lideran, y es
este editor principal quien organiza toda la cobertura con una sola finalidad:
comprobar el hecho noticioso conforme se va generando, y una vez que los
protocolos de verificación se hayan cumplido, recién publicar, o coordinar con
el productor de turno para que vaya orientando al presentador al aire.
Según la película Fuego sobre Bagdad (HBO, 2002) y un artículo de la revista Time en enero de 1992 (cuyo recorte me
lo prestó alguna vez Luisa Portugal de Rodrich), una de mis profesoras de
Periodismo, durante la I Guerra del Golfo, tanto Turner como su presidente
ejecutivo, Tom Johnson tomaron el control editorial de la cadena durante la
histórica transmisión del 16 de enero de 1991 (cuando se inició la Operación
Tormenta del Desierto) porque eran conscientes de que todo el mundo --¡todo el
mundo!—les estaba viendo. Era la primera vez que sucedía, así que reducir el
margen de error fue su tarea principal. Aquí está la transmisión original de
aquella tarde (5:00 pm., hora peruana) en inglés:
Independientemente del cuestionamiento
ideológico que recibe en todas partes, cuando las noticias se están generando
en este mismo instante, mucha gente todavía pone CNN alrededor del mundo para
saber cómo se está originando la historia, y, por supuesto, muy poca gente es
consciente del ejército que hay detrás haciendo que eso suceda.
Por supuesto que desde finales de los ochenta y
con mayor énfasis en los noventa, la oferta de canales de noticias todo el día y
alrededor del mundo se ha multiplicado, así que opciones hay para elegir; pero
la fórmula de la historia en directo no ha sufrido mayores modificaciones
excepto la tecnología con que se transmiten, cada vez más pequeña en tamaño
pero inmensa en posibilidades. 40 años después, CNN, los canales de noticias,
los y las periodistas tenemos una gran historia que contar, especialmente
cuando el mundo tiene más preguntas que respuestas.
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miércoles, 29 de abril de 2020
Five words to mark the after-quarantine
Just
20 years ago, when the Internet in Peru began to do the transition from the
boom of internet-cafés to the slow growth of dial-up home connections, the
online journalists were few. To be (then thin) in-cloud, and that was almost a snob, unnecessary, arrogant act.
Who went following you on the net if there were few connected people? Today,
the print media are the rare ones.
I’m
not saying the ink is over. I think it will have a long life, still, but
modifying its display (3D?), and that’s the first keyword in the history of
humankind – to modify. Since we
invented the writing until we invented the first artificial intelligence
algorithm, what changed is the way how we do itbut not the purpose we have – to
stay in touch and to solve problems.
Perhaps,
what has happened in most recent times is those modifications are happening too
fast to understand (psychologist would say to mourn)and add them into our life,
but let’s accostum – things are going to modify everytime faster, and that must
not scare us because the shapes are going to change almost every minute, but
what must not change or rather improve is our essence.
Starting
from that premise and taking like an example what happened to journalism during
the last two decades, let’s consider that an adaptation factor we have in mind
is that we belief as normal or usual (especially before December 31st, 2019),
has already left to be. Independently that the Covid-19 quarantine is going
to relax soon, new cultural patterns
evolved violently, and they are going to go on among us not in remaining 2020
but long years. And the unadapted species come to extinguish.
Another
challenge we are going to assume is how to pass from the overcontrol (or
overprotection) and the uncontrol to the self-control. The extremes have been
the relevant in humankind’s history, especially in the last 500 years, and they
had its critical moment after The Illustration, 300 years ago. I don’t say they
were unnecessary. In its historical moment, they served us to go through from
hierarchies to equality, and as the coronavirus slammed us on the face with its
own anti-discrimination policy, the extremes don’t serve us anymore in this
historical moment.
Now,
if you insist in looking for a historical reference that eases to understand
the actual instant, I’d say it’s a mix of Humanism and Renaissance spiced by
the technological advance in something we call now The Knowledge Society. So I
consider to be making an arc with a moment in world’s history, 600 years
length.
We
unite defeat the virus but not priviledging social classes. Look, it’s not
communism, capitalist-socialism either. It’s something different but powerful
than forecast by Smith or Marx & Engels as well. We thank their
contribution to the discussion but their concepts are already discontinued to
us.
So,
the new world order builds based upon those criteria: adaptability, unity,
flattered & circling dialogue, urgency sense, humanity, proactivity,
creativity, and wisdom. The parties and potencies will not be already led by
countries or doctrines but the self-control capability (not self-repression)
the individual has, and how this one transcends to the community in a positive,
free, and effective way.
The
social isolation this new order imposes us doesn’t pretend we become selfishest
than we used to be (despite to have 4500 buddies on Facebook), but it’s an
opportunity to see ourselves, reconciliate with our real potential, and carry
it out for bringing it to everybody in the most original way as possible.
So,
if you ever felt you outstood as an astronomer, but they said you to crash down
if you didn’t stand onto your feet, good news: the new order gives you a
revenge chance. And as every inner world doesn’t look like anyone else, what we
will have is an almost 8-billion-possibility offer, if we get to that number.
The
age of how much you are, what it serves you for, is not longer. We are in the
age of how much you know, how you use it to
innovate. And that’s the second keyword of those time. Realise that our
need to be healthy, then not to be ill, has made the big fortunes address not
to buy luxury but looking for a cure, a treatment at least because the human,
the animal, the vegetal are not the enemy. It’s something not matching in any
of these categories. Actually, the animal and the vegetal are coming back to recover
the space offtaken by the human.
Then,
over all this new philosophy of our history, how is the humankind, its star,
going to survive? In my latest op-ed, I
helped to birth a new professional career, RPSR, that means an holistic vision for
managing the risk scenarios in a proactive, mitigating way, and it will be just
one of many evolutions (Pokémon style) we are going to attend to.
Other
fields to be assessed come innovatively re-assessed, and here we are going to
name them, warning they are not exclusive but cooperative in the context that
represents the third keyword of this new age – symbiosis, that inmediatly will outbreak a fourth one – synchretism.
- Technoprimary Production (TP)
- Generation of Integral Knowledge (GIK)
- Management of Synchrodiacrhonical Knowledge (MSK)
- Development of Informatics for Daily Life (DIDL)
- Customized Healthy Lifestyle Consultant (CHLSC)
- Promotion and Development of Creativity (PDC)
- Management of People, Resources, and Territories (MPRT)
And
what will happen to the jobs as we know today?They won’t disappear. Someones
will integrate to others, like others will follow as unique, but the common to
all them is to have the authomation like its best ally. And who be the better,
will have more market – competitiveness,
the fifth word of this new time. So, nothing will turn back to before, but waht
left to say is everything will be much better. It will depend on you, on me, on
our talent and our attitude to make it happen.
sábado, 25 de abril de 2020
Efecto #coronavirus o cómo evolucionará el conocimiento
Mi generación fue marcada por una serie de
televisión durante su infancia: un joven hablaba fluídamente con su auto, y
éste se conducía solo.
¿¿Muy futurista para tu gusto? Aquí mi pronóstico de cómo
evolucionará la ciencia de todos los días:
Producción tecnoprimaria
La crisis puso de relevancia que la gente
necesita comer y estar sana. Fin de la discusión. Por lo tanto, muchas
inversiones van a orientarse a este sector; pero lo que un inversionista va a
buscar es un agricultor con mentalidad empresarial, no de peón, con quien pueda
hablar en términos de rendimiento y rentabilidad (el inversionista sabe de
dinero, no de ciclos vegetativos) y cómo la tecnología puede verificar que tal
inversión sea correcta en cada eslabón de la cadena productiva (que se hará
mucho más corta) hasta llegar al usuario final.
Los intermediarios definitivamente van a
desaparecer en este esquema, lo mismo que la vieja agricultura que mira al
gobierno como cliente. Quienes no vean este modelo eficiente, perderán sus
tierras por no advertir o respetar los contratos que van a firmar para concretar
estas alianzas. ¿Quiénes triunfarán? Los agricultores que opten por el modelo
yo siembro – yo cosecho – yo vendo.
Generación del conocimiento integral
Los y las docentes como les conocemos en la
actualidad dejarán de hacer clases de 45 minutos con una pizarra y un libro de
texto uniforme. Sobre lineamientos de la autoridad educativa pertinente, los y
las docentes activarán su propia cadena de valor incorporando la investigación
académica, cuyos hallazgos sean parte de sesiones mayormente transmitidas mediante
las tecnologías de información y comunicación (con infinidad de recursos de
consulta y evaluación en la nube), y donde el concepto de escuela ya no se
encierre en una institución concreta sino en un mentor de conocimientos y
actitudes (un coach, si quieren verlo
de esa manera), quien agrupará a un número de discípulos y discípulas que será
tan grande y tan diverso como didáctica, entretenida y fundamentada sea cada
sesión.
Sí, es un retorno a las antiguas escuelas
griegas pero con el aporte del entorno virtual. Será una metaeducación a la
carta, en la que cada persona realmente aprenda lo que le fascina o apasiona.
Y, bueno, si eres un papi o una mami que aún no supera la calificación del 0 al
20, malas noticias: lo sostenidamente cualitativo será el criterio de
evaluación en vvez de lo temporalmente cuantittativo. Éste será un campo
interesante para desarrollar.
Administración del conocimiento sincrodiacrónico
Siempre me pregunté a dónde vamos a evolucionar
los y las periodistas, y por largo tiempo creí que era junto a los y las docentes. En realidad, sí, pero con
quienes vamos a tener más parentesco profesional serán los historiadores, los
sociólogos, antropólogos, y en fin con quienes documentamos y podemos explicar
por qué las cosas pasan como pasan y por qué las personas reaccionan a ellas
como suelen reaccionar.
Si algo nos ha demostrado la Historia es que la
humanidad es predecible en su conducta, y eso la convierte en una ciencia base.
Entonces, nuestra chamba será aprender a combinar el entendimiento de lo
inmediato y simultáneo conectándolo en tiempo real con la interpretación que
nos da la perspectiva de los eventos previos.
En tanto exista una relación causa-efecto,
tendremos material de sobra para analizar y ponerlo a disposición de todo el
mundo para que entienda por qué las cosas están surgiendo de esta u otra
manera, y qué decisiones deben tomar para afrontarlas; y, bueno, a eso se
incorpora cierta labor predocente que consistirá en decirle a las personas en
general qué es un hecho, qué es una opinión y que es una mentira del tamaño de
Júpiter.
Desarrollo de la informática para la vida diaria
No, no veo a la internet de las cosas en este
escenario, sino mas bien un nivel de relación con los objetos y las personas
que ya era mostrado en pantalla mediante esa icónica teleserie de hace tres
décadas, “El auto fantástico”. Así que si creías que Michael Knight tenía
esquizofrenia por hablar con su reloj de pulsera, y que era una alucinación psicodélica
el hecho que KITT podía razonar sus decisiones, piénsalo otra vez.
La inteligencia artificial está aquí hace
cuatro décadas, pero ha adquirido mayor impulso hace dos. Entonces, la
informática ya no solo nos sorprenderá con vistosas interfaces para nuestras
computadoras sino que nos permitirán ahorrar tiempo haciendo que las cosas sean
realmente asistentes domésticos o de oficina, mientras la mente humana se
concentra en elaborar todo el marco situacional para tomar decisiones, y esta
innovación va a ser transversal a todo. ¿La buena noticia? Si se prepara como
es debido, el ser humano seguirá diciéndole a la tecnología qué debe hacer, no
al revés (como pasa ahora).
Consultoría personalizada de estilos de vida saludable
¿Personal médico y de enfermería en envidiable
estado físico y entrenadores personales interpretando una TAC? Sí, será el
futuro a mediano plazo. Ambos campos del conocimiento descubrirán que ambos
buscan salvar vidas y además fomentar la vanidad humana (bien llevada, es
positiva), así que van a darse la mano ahora más que nunca.
¿Quiénes facilitarán la fusión? Pues las
carreras médicas pero que no pueden firmar como médico: psicólogos,
fisioterapeutas, obstetras y demás relacionados. Las ciencias de la salud y las
ciencias del deporte van a ser parte de una evolución interesante: las ciencias
EVS (estilos de vida saludable). Sí, los médicos decretarán mi eutanasia
involuntaria, pero un año después de entrenar en un gimnasio los convertirá en
mis chocheras… y me darán la razón.
Promoción y desarrollo de la creatividad
No importa qué arte hagas, no importa cuál sea
tu público objetivo, no importa si lo consideran cultural o contracultural (si
es anticultural, no entra), no importa si se ve en directo o en virtual. En
tanto exprese el alma y el sentimiento del ser humano en una forma novedosa,
original y estética, se va a ubicar dentro de este grupo cuya utilidad también
será transversal –bueno, todas son transversales—y que además hará una labor de
complementación docente, puesto que no bastará con apreciar y listo sino con
aprender a apreciar, pero descubrir cómo una cosa puede conectarse con la otra,
no solo a nivel de formato sino incluso a nivel de nacionalidad o patrón
cultural.
Las fusiones culturales de todo tipo, desde la
música hasta la gastronomía, solo han sido el inicio; lo que viene será
realmente integral, agradable y fascinante. Imposible aburrirse, especialmente
si hablamos de campo audiovisual… o debo decir: audiovisual-interactivo. En
efecto, la tecnología va a ser un gran catalizador de este proceso.
.
Gerencia de personas, recursos y territorios
Quienes se quejan de que su clase política
parece ser más ignorante que nunca, déjenme decirles que la crisis del coronavirus
les ha dado la razón. Sí es necesario profesionalizar la política, o mejor
dicho la toma de decisiones. Y bajo la premisa de que toda persona tiene
derecho a ser elegida (eso no va a desaparecer), lo que sí será ética y
moralmente imprescindible es que conozca al detalle dónde está parada, qué
tiene a disposición y con cuánta gente cuenta.
Y quien hará el trabajo de mentoría, coaching, docencia, o como quieran
llamarla serán los abogados, especialmente los abogados que tienen nociones
sólidas de ciencias políticas, pero tranquilos amigos y amigas del Derecho
porque todos y todas tienen una oportunidad in-cre-í-ble en el nuevo orden
mundial. Para comenzar, tendrán que enseñarles a los tomadores de decisiones
cuál es el sentido de los criterios de esta nueva era y ccómo construir
propuestas de gestión pública (ya no de gobierno) que sean convincentes para
los socios comunitarios o ciudadanos (antiguamente conocidos como electores)
para que opten por la más apropiada para el espacio en el que viven y trabajan.
Las leyes o normas tendrán que evolucionar para
promover el cambio automático cuando se pruebe corrupción, incapacidad o
actitudes totalitarias. De hecho, los periodos de gestión se reducirán a dos
años cuando más con opción a reelegirse limitadamente. La separación de poderes
continuará pero la participación de los socios comunitarios no tendrá que
filtrarse por un legislador (solo se dedicará a diseñar leyes) ni esperar una
convocatoria a elecciones: un click y su decisión pesará tanto o más que la de
un ttomador de decisión. Adiós a la democracia representativa, bienvenida la
democracia interactiva. Ah, conocimientos
PRER en este punto serán necesarísimos.
Sigamos conversando mediante mis cuentas de Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn o mi canal de
YouTube.
viernes, 24 de abril de 2020
The #Coronavirus Effect or where the knowledge is going to flow
My
generation was marked by this famous TV-series: a young man interacts fluently
to his car, and this one is capable to reason everydecision.
Too
futuristic for your taste? Let’s see my forecast of how the knowledge is going
to evolve after the quarantine.
Technoprimary Production
The crisis made relevant that the people
need to eat and to be healthy. That’s it. So, many investments are going to
address to this sector, but what an investor is going to look for is a
business-minded farmer, not a pawn-minded one, whom can talk in terms of
performance and profitability (the investor knows of money, not vegetal cycles)
and how the technology can verify such investment to be right in every link of
the production chain (that will become much shorter) until reaching the final
user.
The dealers are definetly going to
disappear in this scheme, as well as the old agriculture that sees the
government as a client. The one who don’t see this efficient model are going to
lose their lands because not warning, not respecting the contracts they are
going to sign on for making real those alliances. Who will win? The farmers who
choose the I plant – I harvest – I sell model.
Generation of Integral Knowledge
The
teachers as we know today will leave to do 45-minute classes with an uniform
blackboard and textbook. Based upon the pertinent educational authority’s
guidelines, the teachers will active their own assessment chain incorporating
the academic research which sighttings to be part of sessions mostly webcast on
the communication and information technologies (and the infinite in-cloud
consultation and evaluation resources), where the conception of school is not
closed to a real institution yet but a knowledge-&-attitude mentor (a
coach, if you want to see that way) who will join a group of pupils that will
be such large and diverse as each session be understable, amusing, consistent.
Yes,
it’s a revival of the old Greek academies but adding the support of the virtual
environment. It will be an on-demand meta-education which each person really
learns what fascinates, passionates, and, well, if you are a dad or a mom who
doesn’t overcome the A-to-F scoring, bad news: the sustainabily qualitative
will be the evaluation standard instead of the temporarily quantitative. This
field will be interesting to develop.
Management of Synchrodiacrhonical Knowledge
I
ever asked myself where the journalists are going to evolve to, and I thought
for a long time was next to the teachers. In fact yes, but who we are going to
have more professional relativeness will be the historians, the sociologists,
the anthropologists, who we record and can explain with why the things happen
as they happen and how the people react them as they use to react.
If
something the History has proven us, is the humankind is predictable in its
behavior, and that turns it into a key science. Then, our work will be learning
to combine the understanding of the inmediate and simultaneous connecting it
real-time to the interpretation that the perspective of previous facts gives
us.
As
much as there is a cause-effect relation, we will have abundant features to
analyze and to make available for everybody to understand why the things are
outbreaking this way, that way, and what decisions they have to take for facing
them. And, well, that includes certain pre-teaching work that will consist in
saying to the people in general what a fact is, what an opinion is, and what a
Jupiter-size lie is.
Development of Informatics for Daily Life
No, I
don’t see the Objects Internet in this scenario, but rather a relationship
level with objects and persons that was already shown on the screen by an
iconic TV-series three decades ago, Knight
Rider. So if you belief that Michael Knight was schizophrenic because he
talked to his watch and the fact that KITT could reason its decisions was a psychedelic
hallucination, think of it again.
The
artificial intelligence is here four decades ago, but it aacquired a major
power two decades ago. Then, the informatics already will not only amaze us with
living interfaces, but they will allow us to save time making the things to be
domestic or office assistants for real, while the human mind focuses on making
the whole situational frame to take decisions, and this innovation is going to
be transversal to everything. The good news? If the human being prepares as
optimal, will follow saying the technology what must do, not the opposite (like
it happens today).
Customized
Healthy Lifestyle Consultancy
Outstanding
in-shape medical and nursing personnel, physical trainers unfolding a CAT? Yes,
it will be the medium-term future. Both Knoledge fields will realize both look
for saving lifes and promote the human vanity too (well managed, it’s
positive), so they are going to shake hands now than ever before.
Who
will ease the fusion? Well, the medical careers those can’t sign down as a
medical doctor: psychologists, physical therapists, obstetricians, and more
related. Health Sciences and Sports Sciences are going to be part of an
interesting evolution – HLS (Healthy Lifestyle) Sciences. Yes, the medical
doctors will order my forced euthanasia, but a year after working out at a gym,
they will be my buddies and they will agree me.
Promotion and Development of Creativity
No
matter the art you do, no matter your target, no matter if they consider it
cultural or countercultural (it doesn’t enter if it’s anticultural), no matter
if it is seen live or virtual. As much as it expresses the soul and the feeling
of the human being in a new, original, and aesthetic way, it’s going to set
into this group, which utility is going to be transversal too –well. Al are
transversal—and those will also do a teaching complementation work, because it
will not be enough to appreciate and that’s it, but learning to appreciate, and
discovering how a thing can link to another else, not only in a format level
but even in nationality or cultural pattern level.
The
fusions of every type, from music to gastronomy, has been just the beginning –
what comes up wil be really integral, nice, and fascinant. Impossible to bore,
especially if we talk about the audiovisual field… or may I say interactive
audiovisual? In fact, the technology is goin to be a big cathalist of this
process.
Management of People, Resources, and
Territories
Who
claim their politicians seem to be more ignorant than ever before, let me say
that the corona-virus crisis has given you the reason. Indeed, it’s necessary
to professionalize the politics, or rather the making of decisions, and under
the premise that every person has the right to be elected (that’s not going to
disappear), what will be actually ethically and morally mandatory is to know in
detail where is stood up, what is available, how many people counts.
And
the lawyers will do the work of mentorship, coaching, teaching, whatever you
want to call it, especially the lawyers with hard notions of political
sciences. But get calm, counsellors, because everybody has an in-cre-di-ble
opportunity in the new world order. Beginning,
you will teach the decisionmakers what is the sense of this new age’s criteria
and how to build public management (not government anymore) proposals those be
convincent for the community partners or citizens (formerly known as electors)
to choose the most appropriate for the space where they live and work.
The
laws or rules will have to evolve for promoting the authomatic change when
corruption, experienceless, or totalitarian attitude are proven. In fact, the
administration periods will reduce to two years at the most with the option to
a limited re-election. The separation of powers will continue but the
participation of the community partners will not be filtered by a
representative or a senator (who will be only dedicated to make laws), wait for
a election call either. A click and the decision willcount the same or bigger
than a decisionmaker’s. Good-bye to representative democracy, welcome
interactive democracy. Oh, RPSP
experience will be very necessary in this point.
Let’s
continue to talk about it on my Twitter,
Facebook, LinkedIn accounts, or my YouTube
channel.
domingo, 19 de abril de 2020
RPRS – The next trendy professional career
Many
people are pleasing wondered by the way Peru’s President Martín Vizcarra is
managing the crisis caused by Covid-19, the new corona-virus’ strain, at the
point that everything seems to be under control. Seems. Well, the fact is all
the decisions and protocols are not Vizcarra’s creation, not Ministers Board’s,
not the prospective team’s, not advisors’, not shamans’, not gurus’.
The
Law 29664 was passed in 2012, that instructs how to manage and to prevent the
risky scenarios nationwide. Also, it creates the National Center for
Prevention, Estimation, and Reduction of Disasters Risk, Cenepred ias in
Spanish, that depends on the Prime Minister’s Office, PCM as in Spanish, that
also manages the National Institute of Civile Defense, Indeci as in Spanish.
Those three organizations have contingence plans, stores full of relief, and money
coming from different social programmes, that was saved for emergency cases.
It’s
not about I’m undeserving Vizcarra. Unlike, we are lucky about Peru has already
warned to design an action plan, and what the President is doing now is to
follow it up. In simple words, that’s called forecast, the action to fast
forward the facts, skill we are not made ours, judging our reckless attitude at
the time to measure future risks, attitude that becomes bothering beggar when
we realize to be amid them.
“Peru
comes preparing for different types of disaster 8 years ago,” one of my
followers underlined while explaining this fact. The issue, and here it comes
the apparent sensation of disorder and annoyance, is that Cenepred activates
even provided the regional or local governments request it. My source assured
me that none of them has staten nor consulted how to perform it as the crisis
has happened. And when I’m talking of performing, I’m not meaning to perform
like a costumed soldier even, when I were a mayor )a civile authority).
That
would explain why everybody has the impression that Vizcarra and his crew are
the action heroes, while our nearbiest authorities are appearing as the most
uncapable never chosen. Well, they do, don’t they? Talking on a posible reason
for the regional and local governments have not claimed to Cenepred, my source
said the answer is simple – they mostly ignore it. I confess I’m also dismissed
this detail, but… I’m not an authority.
Each quake, a new institution
Just
to make history, Cenepred was created after the fiasco meant by the Fund for
the South Reconstruction, the controversial Forsur as in Spanish, founded after
the Pisco’s Earthquake, August 15th, 2007, that left 550 casualties.
And it seems somebody has to shake us the soil for we to shake our brain. If
not, let’s get back a little more.
May
30th, 1970 – A terrible earthquake erased Yungay, Áncash, out of the map, left
around 70,000 casualties according to the official toll. As a consequence, the
military government created Indeci
(then, the National System of Civile Defense), and since that time, a doctrine
was established – the top local officer, or state’s (regions today), or
nation’s turns into the chief of every civile defense system, according to the
geographic extension of the emergency. That was in 1972.
And
as every rule has an exception, the South Vulcanological Observatory, OVS as in
Spanish, depending on the Geophysical Institute of Peru, is a management
example that would be worthy to study and reply. It has pages after pages with
risk maps, action protocols in case of some volcano between Arequipa and Tacna
decides to erupt. The most active ones are under 24/7 surveillance (that can be
followed real- time on an open-access website), and it constantly moves local
authorities through simulations and contingence plans that currently are used
in the eruptive processes of Sabancaya and Ubinas Mounts.
In
this point, I dreamed this week of an El Niño Warning Center located in Paita,
Piura, like the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii Islands, or the
Hurricane Warning Center in Florida, both in the U.S. The first entity is the
reference for the Asia-Pacific Rim when a 7-magnitude or larger quake breaks
and can cause troubles in our shores, while the second one is the mandatory
information source every summer across the Atlantic and the Caribbean. Our
warning center could be worldwide because El Niño impacts around the planet,
and the reason why Paita is because two large water flows of our enormous
ocean, warm and cold, meet very near there. I hope that comes true. Let’s
continue.
Then,
if our frame-protocol gathers almost half a century old and the most specific
one is going to be a decade old, why do the mayors and regional governors
suffer from nervous collapse and subsequent rigor
morbidus every time they have to manage a disaster to prevent or to
mitigate? Short answer: a lot of ego, a few neurone.
More than guessing, it’s about forecasting
And
that is the ethernal Peruvian error – a mostly reactive instead of proactive
system because it doesn’t know to read the past at the point it becomes to
convince it will never happen anymore, but it also doesn’t know to fast forward
the future and the multiple choices it represents, even the weirdest. Look at
the crisis created by the Covid-19 pandemic: we have usually live next to
in-progress diseases, but any strucked us fully as a country, discounting to
hold us inside our homes for a month and a half.
But
as every crisis means and opportunity, this is the time a career I don’t know
if exists, and if not we can create it here, should raise bonds – Response Planning
for Risk Scenarios, or RPRS, what its name says, it’s in charge of think pretty
detailed how we mitigate, avoid, and manage every bad it could happen because
of measurable or unmeasureable contending situations .
The
RPRS Officer has to be a person with a pretty wide vision but also a teaching
ability to explain easily everybody, especially the authorities, about what
could happen if nobody acts and how to act for it happens the less or null
damage as possible. It’s not the person who avoids a black cat or eludes to
pass under stairs, but it’s capable to anticipate how the cat will react and
has got available stairs just in case of going to rescue it.
But
nota all remains in vision and teaching, it has to be a person whom gets not
boring to research in the reality of territory to serve (yes, knowledge on
geography, history, statistics, sociology, and psychology are just part of the
profile) and write everything down in a compulsively sequential way. Definetly,
if you never learned to make flow diagrams, you won’t work on this career.
And
the better of RPRS comes here – it will not be only a key career in public
management, which the authority’s decisions –theoretically—influence on the
life of thousands or millions of people. It also will be required by the
private sector, non-profit or commercial, to guarantee if any investment faces unseen
potential peril as well as to evaluate if the development projects are actually
going to develop something or they will be another money waste just for
granting a job to a hand of people.
And
still beyond, taking the New Peruvian’s paradigm launched by President
Vizcarra, it has to be a person with much empathy and creativity to promote the
solidarian spirit among pairs and dispairs. Yes, it has to be a leader with a
wide recognizement among the community, but also to be anyone else amid all the
persons.
If
you see your profile fits this one I describe, go preparing because you’re
going to be required in the short-term. If you’re reading me from an university,
an institute, a school, or similar, go considering to launch this course, that
mixes humanism and science, hard work and pedagogics, communicability and
reflection capability.
As I
said to a colleague, the future of many proffessions, the mine one included, is
they are going to upgrade new setups what are not that we used to know, and
that’s a signal of times. Everything changes, and this crisis is underlining it
and marking light yellow to us every hour, every minute, every second, and it
demands an answer from us. Not asking it would be committing suicide… or
another genocide.
And
talking about colleagues, I leave you my
tutorial for covering news during natural disasters that you can adapt to
this crisis for good. Meet me on Twitter,
Facebook, YouTube,
and LinkedIn for
continuing to talk about.
domingo, 29 de marzo de 2020
How to crush a non-informatic virus by using your fingertips
The World
Bank states 1.6 billion students around the planet are not attending the school
due to Covid-19, the new kind of corona-virus. In Peru, the (theoretically)
mandatory quarantine imposed to hold the virus was extended until April 12th. Considering
the classes began last March 16th, it means a 2020 Annual Course’s month is
lost, and it’s possible that coming back to the classroom takes more time.
Around the
globe, the initiatives to avoid the students to lose the scholarship’s rhythm
are beginning to outbreak and that’s good. Many teachers have recalled a
not-so-new ally to achieve it – information technology. And they are taking any
resource, any platform to continue, because it’s not about we are on vacation,
we have kept not to infect. It’s not the same thing.
Along Peru,
the government is setting up a whole platform including the public radio & television,
the Ministry of Education, and some associations which are implementing
collaborative and friendly environments. Along Piura? I learned this week it
does, and it happens in Sullana Province, Marcavelica District indeed, more
specifically in Vista Florida Village.
Virtual classroom
14854 José
Santos Chocano School, as thousands of schools across Peru, is closed doors but
not its communication channels. So Principal Leonila Saavedra had the idea to
do in virtual environment wwhat was interrupted in physical or presential ones.
Let’s push
pause here because this school and this principal don’t appeared in the air
after a blink. It was one of the seven schools across Piura Region recognized
by the Ministry of Education (Minedu, as its acronyme in Spanish) with Valora grade, a kind of certification
granted for innovating all processes of management and teaching, three years
ago.
In José
Santos Chocano’s case, its competitive advantage was precisely the use of tools
based on information technology. Let’s get back to March 2020. Mrs Saavedra
summoned the engineer Iván Martín Rotta, who worked with the platform that
allowed her the Minedu’s recognizement in 2017, and who has developed
interesting related ideas about this issue at Piura’s César Vallejo University,
where he studied.
The engineer designed a virtual classroom as a
technologic solution, first for the teachers to coordinate strategies and
contents, then for the parents to join the companion of their kids, ultimately
to incorporate the children in the whole process. Look what an interesting
strategy to add all the members of the basic educational community. If they can
add later to the ones who are not part of this community but who are going to
contribute in the process, perfect! They’re going a good way!
The teachers who participate in this experience see
it much expectant, judging what they have shared on the virtual classroom’s
forum. How did I have Access to the system not having an user and a password? Surprise,
surprise! When my radar detected this story, I asked Iván to launch two simple
questions: what they think of the environment, what challenge it produces them.
Then, the quotes you’ll see on this op-ed are spontaneous reactions of those
proffessionists. Get your own conclusions.
“They’re the right place to ask questions, to
propose activities, or to solve doubts, because there’s no only interaction by
asking the teacher, but seeing also what other students ask,” teacher Luis
Estrada wrote.
“The virtual education is other vogue in those times
and its use gets into different current spaces, although it also has some
inconsistences, for example, not all the parents know those virtual
environments, who will accomplish a very important role in this process,”
teacher Paola Farfán adds.
“Anyway, despite social disagreements, the current
scenario makes the virtual education to be already the solution for the
problems in Peruvian education. It’s true that a big advantage of virtual
education there is a lower Covid-19 contagion risk, because to access the
classes for the students, eliminates the displacement to a specific location,
situation not able to be done in this emergency,” teacher Yuliana Astudillo
complements.
Growing hurts
For the teachers to adapt to the environment, even
borning in the Informatics Age, has not been easy because the traditional
education usually trains everybody for a predictable space: the board in the
background, the door beside the board, the desks in front of the board,
teacher’s desk beside the board, wide windows, four walls and a ceiling.
But in the virtual environment, that fades, and
especially another factor – time. Perhaps it’s not necessary the 45-minute
pedagogical hour. Perhaps you require more time, perhaps you need less. Everything
is going to depend on your attention and understanding rate.
And that has been the same challenge of the teachers
in Vista Florida, Marcavelica. Let’s reflectionate through their own reactions
on their school’s virtual classroom.
“Too much confused in the beginning because we have
changed our traditional way to work in classrooms due to the use of a mobile
device, lap-top, or computer,” teacher Farfán underlines.
“However, when investigating a bit more and having
an virtual education technology back-up,
I feel more secure. That’s why we have focused that in this emergency it’s
important to strengthen the interaction media among the students, teachers, and
contents, as well as promoting the use of infovirtual tools because the
educational stakers will move in a digital environment,” shee adds.
“It’s complicated in the beginning, but to have the
motivation of knowing that your students will not lose the Academic Year, makes
we work hard on learning with the expert Iván Martín Rotta these virtual
educational environments, those are also totally free, so facing this
emergency,” teacher Astudillo opines.
“It has not been easy to enter the field of virtual
education, but with the back-up of technology we are receiving by the expert
Iván Martín Rotta, the learning becomes easier,” teacher Estrada says in his
side. “Meanwhile, I can opine that the virtual education requires teachers with
technological profiles, but also human, practical, pedagogical, and ethical,
different to presential education’s.”
Well, it’s overunderstood that one of the
contributions of the Internet to the life of everybody is now we can custom the
contents we receive, precisely, to give utility and pleasure to our experience.
And why shouldn’t the education be also a pleasant experience, as well as
useful?
“The education in virtual environment also will help
to improve the student’s mood for not feeling missed. We also ccan approach the
care measures before the Covid-19, helping the work the Peruvian State comes
doing,” teacher Astudillo stresses.
And this is every crisis’ about, putting creative,
not letting to overwhelm by the problem and the impact it can have over our
lives. It’s about how we turn every problem into a solution, but also, and this
is the lesson of the story I share you today, how the unity of many talents and
wills can make something more than solving the problem – innovating,
reinventing, becoming a better version of who I used to be.
And Peru is rich in that but it fears to leave the
comfort zone (I’m not meaning you go out your home during the quarantine). Vista
Florida is understanding it, and according to engineer Rotta told me, other
schools are thinking to join. Congratulations about that! Goa head!
My radar also has detected that a similar initiative
is making in Fe y Alegría 48 Network in Tambogrande. I don’t have hard facts,
but I promise when I know something else, you’ll know it on here.
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