Hi Diego,
I completely agree that social, technological, political, etc.
circumstances in each country are different. Even within countries,
the effects of the digital divide and other issues affect the way
different segments of the population perceive and are affected by the
information flow. So, I applaud your initiative of creating a study
group in Colombia.
Furthermore, given the large amount of Spanish speakers, I can foresee
that many other country-based communities like yours will be created
in the next days or weeks, so their members can concentrate in the
specific issues of their countries or communities (i.e., like the ones
that have already been created in English). It is my hope though, that
all those smaller communities will be connected with each other
anyhow, to avoid duplicating efforts (for instance in translating or
in accessing materials) and to take advantage of our combined research
potential. To promote communication among each of these groups, maybe
we could have liaisons or regular synchronous meetings, maybe through
our group Connectivitas or through any other initiative.
Connectivitas (
http://www.pageflakes.com/connectivitas/ ), has already
members located in Argentina, Ecuador, España, Grecia, Estados Unidos,
Italia, México and Venezuela. Connectivitas members are very
interested in getting a global perspective from all the Spanish-
speaking researchers, students, professionals, etc., that can help
understand how "connections" work in the Spanish speaking world, why
research and practices carried out in Spanish do not get spread out
within and outside the Spanish speaking world as much as they should,
why collaborative efforts do not seem to work out in our countries,
and what we can do to solve these issues.
Regarding tagging, I think it is a great idea to use CCK08-ES or
CCK08_ES (underscore may work better for indexing purposes). I would
though keep using CCK08, because that´s the convention of the course.
After all, our Spanish documents are also part of CCK08.
Muchos saludos y seguimos en contacto,
Esperanza