The International Erickson Conference on “DIDATTICHE.2016. Immaginare, sperimentare, innovare” (Didactics.2016. Imagining, Experimenting. Innovating) will be held on November 11-12, 2016.
On April 30, 1986, Italy discovered the Internet. The signal transmitted from the Pisa University Centre for Electronic Calculations (CNUCE) to the Roaring Creek Station in Pennsylvania, connected it for the first time to the Arpanet, the US network connecting universities, research centres and military agencies. Italy was the fourth connected European country after Norway, the UK and West Germany.
Today, TV Programme Geo & Geo, hosted by Sveva Sagramola and nature photographer Emanuele Biggi, will also report on the Italian Internet Day with Alfonso Molina, Scientific Director of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale.
Alfonso Molina will address the potential of the Internet to improve people’s lives and the work of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale to promote digital literacy amongst categories at risk of exclusion like elders and foreigners.
Follow the live TV Programme from 3:50 pm
The dynamism of Italy’s third sector has not gone unnoticed to Ashoka, the global association of social innovators – men and women who conceive projects to change the world by identifying solutions to our most urgent social problems.
Ashoka, which began operating in Italy in June 2014, was founded in the United States in 1981 by social entrepreneur Bill Drayton. Today, Ashoka is present in over 70 countries and has 3200 fellows. Ashoka social entrepreneurs must satisfy a standard selection.
Ashoka has mapped over one thousand social innovators operating in Italy: 336 women and 725 men. Four Italian fellows have passed all the selection phases and have been admitted to the international network: Vincenzo Linarello (Founder, Gruppo Cooperativo GOEL), Riccarda Zezza (Founder Maam and Maam U), Alfonso Molina (Fondazione Mondo Digitale) and Dario Riccobono (Founder, Addio Pizzo and Addiopizzo Travel.
Two articles published last week have analysed the role of the “third” and “fourth” sectors for social innovation. Both mention Ashoka’s mapping of social innovators and Alfonso Molina, one of the four Italian fellows have passed all the selection phases and have been admitted to the international network. [see news: Molina is an Ashoka Fellow].
Giro d’affari da 64 miliardi per il terzo settore in Italia
Le imprese sociali verso la raccolta di capitali a rischio
by Elena Delfino
Il Sole 24 Ore – April 22, 2016
Read the article (in Italian, pdf)
Fare il bene comune? Bell’impresa
Startups centering on social commitment are on the rise. Europe likes the “fourth sector,” a step beyond the Italian tradition of enlightened entrepreneurs.
by Daniela Condorelli
D La Repubblica – April 23, 2016
Read the article (in Italian, pdf)
“Civic Leadership for Tomorrow’s Cities. Managerial Competences for Development” is the title of the workday promoted by Prioritalia, an association founded in 2012 by Manageritalia, Federmanager, Fenda, Fidia, Sindirettivo and CIDA, the major unions of Italian managers.
The appointment is for today in Rome at the Ara Pacis (Via di Ripetta 190). The day will be divided into two sessions. The first (2-5:30 pm) includes three worktables:
Alfonso Molina, Scientific Director of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, will participate in the “Digital Tomorrow” roundtable.
The second part of the works will feature a plenary session beginning at 5:30 pm.
PROGRAMME
Welcome coffee & Registration
Works Open
ROUND TABLE
Speakers
Moderator
Relive the BNL Media Art Festival through the photographs taken by the students at RUFA– Rome University of Fine Arts. Each day is documented on the festival website with the photographs taken on each day [see news].
In the MAF TV section, you will find all the interviews and full videos of some of the events.
And if you are more interested in the social conversation, you can follow the event timeline on Twitter.
The cinema and photography students at RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts documented every day of the BNL Media Art Festival with photos and videos.
Five days of live tweeting with hashtag #RomaMAF.
It has been less than a year since Ashoka Italia plotted the first map of social innovators in Italy, selecting over one thousand individuals, who may be unknown, but are working to change the world. Now, amongst these key players, Ashoka has invited Alfonso Molina [see news A Map of Innovators].
Ashoka’s mapping did not stop at Italy. The association fielded a series of careful selections to identify a true international network of “Ashoka Fellows,” profiles that satisfy five criteria: new ideas, creativity, tenacity and enterprise, social impact and the ethical fibre of an entrepreneur.
The long selection process entails five stages: two at the national level and three at the international level. The entrepreneurs were interviewed for hours by experts who analysed their projects and careers to ensure that all five criteria were satisfied.
Four candidates have passed the five selection phases and have been invited as Ashoka Fellows in the largest global network of social entrepreneurs:
Ashoka Italia will present its new Fellows during the first week of October.
Speakers
The challenge launched by this round table will continue throughout the five days of the event, involving schools and youth in this debate. The full programme is available at: bnlmediaartfestival.org
Alfonso Molina participate in the #CambieRai event, promoted by MISE, which begins today.
“CambieRai” kicks off today, April 12, at the Rome Auditorium-Parco della Musica. This is the first consultation on the “public radio, television and multimedia services” to be held in Italy. Sixteen technical tables have been convened by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) and organized in 4 macro-areas (Italy, Creative Industry, Digital, Italian Society). Over 140 individuals will participate on behalf of 62 associations, 20 public agencies and institutions, 11 study centres and think tanks, as well as 20 experts and 16 RAI representatives, one for each table.
Besides the associations of TV, cinema, radio, animation and information authors and producers, participants include representatives of Italian goods manufacturers and services for tourism, digital services, cultural heritage, services sector, schools and universities and consumers. For the first time, Italy will be fully represented and debating the future of the public service.
The Fondazione Mondo Digitale will be represented by Scientific Director Alfonso Molina, who will participate in the table on “Digital Literacy” (Digital macro-area), coordinated by Paolo Barberis, Councillor for Innovation, Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
The tables will collect information for the development of a questionnaire, which with the help of Istat, will be published for 45 days on the government website, beginning in May. Italian citizens will be able to express their opinion on the public service they would like in view of the new agreement between the state and RAI that will expire in 2016.
The City of Rome will host the 2nd National Congress on Flipped Classrooms, promoted by the Flipnet Association in collaboration with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale.
Next Friday, Feb. 19, international experts, scholars and 350 teachers from all over Italy will meet at the National Library in Rome to debate innovative, cooperative and inclusive didactic models. The works will be opened by Professor Emeritus Tullio De Mauro.
A modern, innovative school must be able to attract everyone. It’s not a utopia. It’s called “Flipped Classroom,” a new inclusive didactic model for 21st century education.
The “Flipped Classroom” was conceived in the United States and only arrived in Europe a few years ago, but it is quickly winning over teachers and students alike. It is based on replacing frontal lessons and homework with a new learning-teaching process that flips the time, place and roles of traditional didactics and provides answers to individual needs and learning paces of all students. Books are lo longer needed. Students just need a smartphone and teachers who know how to exploit the fantastic opportunities provided by new technology for didactic activities to promote an inclusive, interactive and collaborative school
The 2nd National Congress on Flipped Classrooms will be held next Friday, February 19, at the National Library in Rome. The congress is promoted by the Flipnet Association in collaboration with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale. The works will be introduced by Professor Emeritus Tullio De Mauro, an expert in linguistics and innovative didactics, who will discuss the “flipped learning” approach, integrated with the Life Education Model, with 350 teachers from around Italy.
The event will continue with presentation by Alfonso Molina, Scientific Director of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale; Grazia Paladino, Vice President; Paolo Ferri, Milan Bicocca University; Eraldo Affinati, writer; Daniela Lucangeli University of Padua and Aldo Torrebruno from the Milan Politecnico.
This year’s edition opens up to a European-wide debate. In the afternoon, international workshops will be held to present experiences in France, Spain and England. Speakers include Heloise D. Dufour (France), Raúl Santiago (Spain) e Russel Stannard (United Kingdom).
The event will be streamed live on flipnet.it
