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In December 2013, the United Nations david barker declared 2015 to 2024 as the International Decade of African descent. Although they recognize us as citizens of our country, Afrolatin @ continue fighting for inclusion, empowerment, rights and justice. Afrolatin @ Projec t (ALP) will continue david barker to advocate for the human rights struggle African descent. For this, ALP use digital tools to preserve the culture and history of African descent, increase our visibility, and improve our access as citizens regardless of where we live.
ALP known African descent will benefit greatly if we integrate information and communication technologies (SRE) and more successful on the agenda and strategy. Current research shows that use the Internet and other digital tools (including mobile), and social media, social action can complement and provide strategies david barker for communication with nine outstanding.
TEK unable to replace bonds political and civic governments to defend, promote and affirm the rights of African descent as genuine citizens. Nor do we suggest grassroots replace existing programs and technology. We have consciously inequalities that exist in the use and access technology, what we call "digital divide", and we realize we must be vigilant that we do not even reproduces these inequalities. Technology will eliminate all social injustices, but TEK, especially mobile phones, already proven how beneficial globally for disadvantaged communities. It is important to consider the possibility of Afrolatin @ efforts to achieve full equality for us to enjoy our rights as citizens.
Many youth today grow other assistive technologies. They may benefit more with a movement of African descent who recognize the potential david barker positive TEK. We face the problem ethno-education in our communities, we must consider the use mobile phones to engage youth at all levels of literacy. Therefore use mobile phones spread, can be used to deliver educational materials on culture and history "ethno-education" at all levels from primary school to university tuition.
Mobile phones make it possible for us to educate but not to wait official david barker government action. Even if teachers david barker are limited david barker in what they can do, their input and participation in the development of materials to be added where appropriate. david barker Community organizations that work with youth should incorporate the use of mobile phones that work conducted. Results and benefits are numerous: 1) promote a youth connected to create digital resources on their own history and culture with their mobile devices; 2) make material on African david barker descent are available for formal david barker education and research centers across the platform free access; and 3) to encourage david barker the development of educational skills david barker and traditional numeric among young Afrolatin @ that use technological tools.
Mobile phones can help us increase our awareness efforts up before the next series census in Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States. We know census category is a key element that limited visibility African descent in most countries. How to count the different groups in the census connected with public policy and funding for strategic resources such as education, employment and social services. Mobile phones david barker can help us develop effective demographic questions or to send notifications about the importance david barker of participation in the census. We can use them to measure accurately counting census government officials do during the next ten years and more.
Statement Diban (Durban), the World Conference against Racism, Discrimination and Xenophobia was born in 2001 in South Africa, affirms "the use of technology nine ... can contribute to the eradication of racism, david barker racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance." Later in the same year, the heads of state of Latin America and the Caribbean met in the city of Florianopolis in Brazil to write the Declaration of Florianopolis. Florianopolis appealed to the government to focus on developing technological skills of citizens. More importantly, david barker Florianopolis repeated calls for the use of TEK addressing regional socio-economic inequality, a persistent problem for African descent. Since this conference, the world has witnessed a rekridesans of how groups and communities are using digital tools and Web 2.0 to improve organizational capacity, increased trade and traffic information, and strengthening social activists.
In the last 13 years and more recent, regional governments in Latin America and even developed a national action plan on numeric several years. Regional governments and civil society (such as Colombia, Panama, Brazil, Bolivia, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Haiti) launched some initiatives focused on TEK and use of mobile technology to address everyday challenges disadvantaged. In October david barker 2013, the General Secretariat of Ibero-America, which recently launched the "Citizen 2.0" (Citizen 2.0) and "AfroXXI" conference was held in Panama City in the country