Common vocabulary of social participation

in Latin America

http://www.corais.org/vocabulariodaparticipacao

Proponents

What is

Representation model or conceptual framework that defines concepts and

relationships between them to describe and represent the citizen participation area of knowledge.

Why do we wanta commom vocabulary

Link/ associate DBRate information

Modeling knowledgeCollective intelligence

Data visualizationMashups

Objectives• Build collaborate communities:– Software developers [high tech]– Sustainable cities movements

stakeholders [high touch]

• Build a commom vocabulary collaboratively

Methodological process• Mapping of forums• Identification of issues• Identification of needs for expanding the

conversation• Identification of other agents to be involved• Intervention messages and synthesis

proposals • Collection of answers• Mapping of concepts

Outcomes• Stakeholders’ map• Model in natural language• Model in computer language (OWL)

Stakeholders’ map• 65 stakeholders• 26 developers• 6 authors: Dalton Martins, Frederico Bortolato,

Henrique Parra Parra Filho, Isis Lima Soares, Ricardo Augusto Poppi Martins e Rodrigo Bandeira de Luna

• 23 organizations• 4 countries• 4 networks: Movimento #webcidadania, parceiros

da Fundação AVINA, Rede Latinoamericana por Cidades Justas e Sustentáveis e rede Transparência Hacker

• + 243 mapped people

Modelin natural language

Model incomputacional language

OWL code - http://code.google.com/p/vocabularioparticipacao/Public repository -

http://vocabularioparticipacao.googlecode.com/files/Corais.owl Licence - GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3)

Prospectives and next stepsInvolve new actors (high tech and high touch) to:• New version of this vocabulary• Implementation experiences of this release

Via face meetings with:• Government, academia and civil society to gather information

and develop referrals and broaden theoretical and conceptual contexts in which the vocabulary may be appropriated

• Academics who research ontologies and information science and militants in the area, to discuss the possibilities of the vocabulary of social participation

• information technology business sector that develops solutions for the area of ontologies (eg.: Yahoo, Google, Facebook)

• Standards body (development organization – STO) organizations of the web, such as W3C and IETF to form technical working groups