Initiatives: Information Exchange

Translation and Dissemination Initiative, Latin America

The purpose of the LogoLink Latin America Translation and Dissemination initiative is to make research on Citizen Participation produced in Latin America more widely available.

The initiative sets out to identify material on participatory local governance, to translate it into and/or from Portuguese, Spanish and English and to make it accessible online from the LogoLink Latin America website.

As part of this initiative, several activities are currently being coordinated by Instituto PÓLIS:

• Development of the LogoLink Latin America website
• The first TDI-LLLA bulletin, which will include documents translated into Spanish and Portuguese, and one on participatory budgeting translated into English.
  

Other activities include:

• The 'Vote for Translation/Dissemination' initiative presented at the World Social Forum.
  Visitors who stopped by the LogoLink/PÓLIS booth asking for information on the materials on display were asked to vote for a particular publication that they would like to see translated into Spanish and/or Portuguese. Visitors were mainly from organisations working in Latin America, but also in Europe and North America.
  Visitors welcomed the initiative and were particularly interested in tools aimed at training communities on "how to elaborate a project budget", "leadership", and "how to organize meetings."
• Regional workshop held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 21-22 November, 2002.
  15 organisations participated from the region. The objectives of the activity were:
  * to gather key practitioners/institutions from the region to select relevant practitioner-oriented materials produced by such institutions and that could be translated into either Spanish, Portuguese or English;
  * to share strategies of knowledge dissemination and learn about different profiles of publications;
  * to translate the selected articles as agreed by the participants.
  

  Visit the LogoLink Latin America website