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Corporación Somos Más - 2010

(We're More!)

Networks of Social Initiatives

Bogotá, Colombia (and other couple of places)


How can we join efforts to create social change?


Centralized Decentralized Distributed

How to enable distributed dynamics in hierarchical contexts?


+15 Nation-wide and regional networks of social initiatives+2.000 nonprofits+50,000 people directly involved

Child rightsElder rightsPeople with disabilities rightsVictims of armed conflictEntrepreneurshipVolunteeringGovernment and multilateral organiz. officials


http://www.primerainfancia.org



Project based on http://www.portaldovoluntario.org.br http://voluntarios.somosmas.org

Corporación Somos Más - 2010http://www.alianzaporlaninez.org.co

Corporación Somos Más - 2010redemprendedoresbavaria.net



http://redpai.org




Some broad reflections

+ Collective action is being reclaimed directly by citizens

+ The relation between Government, NGOs, and citizen movements are fundamentaly changing

+ NGOs will remain relevant depending on their ability to easily advice and serve as a support for citizen movements


Some specific reflections

+ We've got to trascend the project cycle and it's structure

+ Try! Experiment! (and learn)

+ Social media is just a hyped telephone (it's not about the tools!)

+ You can't expect others to collaborate and work wikily if you're not (be coherent!, which btw is very difficult)

+ Open to collaboration and engagement. Don't just fund it: you can even kill it!


Thanks! :)

Nicolás Martín

Twitter: @pastelero

Executive Director

Corporación Somos Más

[email protected]

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