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Impact 2.0 - New mechanisms for linking research and policy (Paperback)
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Impact 2.0 - New mechanisms for linking research and policy (Paperback)
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This book features case studies and reports on the use of "web 2.0"
and social networking applications and services to increase the
impact of research on policy in Latin America. During 2010 and 2011
Fundacion Comunica, with funding from the International Development
Research Centre (IDRC, Canada) and assistance from the Association
for Progressive Communications (APC), supported a series of small
research projects examining the use of online social networking
services to link research and policy in the region. Twelve projects
were supported, most of them selected from ninety-seven proposals
received following the distribution of a call for proposals in May
2010. Two types of projects were supported: (i) action research
projects involved both implementing and evaluating a specific use
of one or more online social networking services to link research
and policy or researchers and policymakers, and (ii) more
conventional ones evaluated existing initiatives implemented by
third parties. While the experiments and evaluations undertaken
under the Impact 2.0 umbrella displayed a tremendous diversity in
terms of the online tools they used, their methodological
approaches, their communication strategies etc., certain patterns
emerged and overall the various projects can be seen to have
adopted three distinct approaches to their use of social networking
to link research and policy: 1). Projects in which researchers made
use of online campaigns to make their research conclusions more
visible to the public at large, usually with the expectation that
public support and visibility would give their proposals increased
legitimacy and support among policymakers. 2). Projects in which
researchers sought to support online public consultation processes
in collaboration with government entities. 3). Projects which
explored the use of web 2.0 and social networking services to open
direct channels of communication between researchers, policymakers
and other stakeholders in order to communicate research,
collaborate on specific activities, and/or with a more-or-less
explicit objective of getting them to know each other better and to
build trust. For the Impact 2.0 projects, the most successful uses
of web 2.0 and online social networking to connect research and
policy were those that involved the public in campaigns and
consultations. Less successful were those projects that focused on
the direct relationships between researchers, policymakers and
other stakeholders. Edited by Bruce Girard and Estela Acosta y
Lara, this book is a product of that research.
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