• Title: Technology: a factor in social exclusion or an element of social relationships and participation?

• Date: 4th June 2010

• Time: 12:30

• Place: Parlamento de Navarra, Pamplona. Leaflet

Aims

This activity is designed to reflect on the role that Information and Communication Technologies play in building up or breaking down barriers between people, those of an economic, social or cultural nature or that are due to a generation gap, and to open a debate about how technology can represent an element of social cohesion and participation.

Speakers

Opening ceremony and presentation of the Civic Parliament

• Elena Torres: President of the Parliament of Navarra.

• Ángel J. Gómez Montoro: President of the University of Navarra.

• Concepción Naval: Vice-President of the University of Navarra.

Speakers

• Prof. Petra M. Pérez Alonso-Geta: Full Professor of Anthropology of Education at the University of Valencia.

• Rodrigo Zardoya: Director of the "Fundación Dédalo para la Sociedad de la Información" (Dedalo Foundation for an Information Society), Tudela.

• Prof. Xavier Bringué: School of Communication at the University of Navarra and President of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Foro Generaciones Interactivas.

Two secondary school students and one university student

Potential participants: young people in general, ICT users, older people with less experience in ICT, educators (teachers, parents) for whom technology is both an educational challenge and a problem, representatives of the media and other institutions.

The session was broadcast live on Twitter for all those interested so that the ideas that form the subject of the debates can be heard first hand on the social networks, and so that those connected can easily take part themselves by asking questions and making comments through the same medium.

Related news

• Nota de prensa

• TV: Canal 6 Navarra

• Radio: Radio Universidad de Navarra, Onda Cero

• Web: Noticia en Parlamento de Navarra