It's been a long while since the last time I got tagged for a theme, so I guess it'd be a good time to get that going, specially since my good friend, and fellow IBM colleague, Aneel, already did a couple of days back on "The Web in Twenty". This meme basically tries to answer three different questions:

• How has the Web changed your life?
• How has the Web changed business and society?
• What do you think the Web will look like in 20 years?

So over the next few minutes I will go and try to cover each and everyone of them, trying to keep things on the short side, of course, now that there is a new @elsua out there!

How has the Web changed your life?

I know that this may be coming across as a shocker for most folks, but I have always thought the main reason why I have been involved with the Web in the last 13 years is actually due to my employer, IBM. I am pretty sure that if it weren't for who I am employed by at the moment the Web impact upon myself would have been a lot less. In fact, to be honest, seeing what a horrendous bunch of experiences I had back at high school studying computing I bet I would not have been working with computers at all whatsoever. That probably explains why I can, so easily, disconnect for longer periods of time from everything Internet when I am on holidays. I have always preferred to go local, to nurture and cultivate relationships and friendships face to face, because somehow that's how I feel I get the most out of them.

However, I realise that's probably no longer a good representation of today's world; more distributed and virtual than ever, so I guess I could state that the Web has changed my life in such manner that has allowed me to keep up with people and their relationships ever so much easier through various different publishing platforms that have made that experience equally richer; somehow I feel that if the Web would have been 1.0 nowadays I would have given up on it altogether a long time ago. To me, the Web is social, so the focus has always been on connecting with people from all over the place and stay in touch. Because whether I like it or not, to me, that's what really matters: people and their relationships. And Web 2.0 has made that incredibly easy nowadays...

How has the Web changed business and society?

This one is an easy one to answer and go for, more than anything else, because it pretty much relates as well to what I have mentioned for the previous question; The Web, specially the Social Web, has enabled and facilitated the socialisation of both business and society; it's provoked that both of them are humane again, coming from that industrial age where for several decades (knowledge) workers were treated as resources, assets, something you could abuse tremendously without any further consequences.

What it has done is it's allowed everyone to understand that whether you are part of a society, or whether you are working in a specific business, there is always an underlying aspect that should not be forgotten: we are all people, we are all social, and we should always (No excuses!) be treated as such. Only then would we be capable of seeing the huge potential the human race has got to finally call progress ... Progress with a capital P.

So instead of experiencing that constant state of abuse from one person to another, it now becomes a partnership, a collaborative joint effort wanting to create wonderful things without putting down fellow people in the process. That's how the Social Web has changed not only what and how we do things, but who we are, as people.

What do you think the Web will look like in 20 years?

And probably the easiest one to answer from the three questions. Long long time ago I learned, though the hard way, that making plans or predictions into the future is a little bit of a waste of time. More than anything else, because at the state of how the world is progressing nowadays (And I am very serious on this point...) who is to say what the world, or the Web, would look like in 20 years time.

I mean, how do we know we will even be there, in the first place. I think we are much better off living by the day, enjoying every single moment treasuring those little things that really matter realising that we may have plenty of jobs, family and friends, multiple Web(s), different lifestyles, etc. etc. but at the end of the day, we only have got one life, one single life, so we may try as well try to get the most out of it!

And I bet the upcoming iPad is going to help me enjoy life even so much more, and for so many reasons! :-D

Ok, so, who do I tag for this meme, knowing and realising that people are incredibly busy nowadays and as such they probably won't have much time for it... Hummm, let's have a look:

- Oh, my good friend Rick Ladd, because I bet he has got a thing or two to share with us on how the Web has changed and influenced what we are doing out there in the deep space, and, more importantly, what the future may hold for us out there in those new worlds...

- Well, I think I would also tag Paula Thornton, because I sense designing a new Web will have direct implications for every business and for every society we are part of. And I would love to read her thoughts on what that designing of things would be like...

- And, finally, the one person I can think could well do quite an outstanding job in detailing how the Web has changed us, businesses and society and what it would be like in 20 years would be John Tropea. If you have been following his KM blog, you will know exactly why I said what I just said ...

Now, if you would want to consider yourself tagged and dive in as well, by all means; I bet we could build, pretty much, quite a good and extensive account of how we all feel the Web has changed us all, and perhaps hint what may be coming along soon enough ... Who knows ...

- Oh, oh, just came up with something, another couple of people I would love to tag would be my good friends Jay Cross, Harold Jarche and Stephen Downes, because I am sure they would have some fascinating and strong views on how Learning is key to the whole thing; shaping up not just the Web itself, but who we are and the role we play, both in the physical and virtual world!

Consideramos imprescindible la retirada de la disposición final primera de la Ley de Economía Sostenible por los siguientes motivos:

1 -Viola los derechos constitucionales en los que se ha de basar un estado democrático, en especial la presunción de inocencia, libertad de expresión, privacidad, inviolabilidad domiciliaria, tutela judicial efectiva, libertad de mercado, protección de consumidoras y consumidores, entre otros.

2 – Genera para Internet un estado de excepción en el cual la ciudadanía será tratada mediante procedimientos administrativos sumarísimos reservados por la Audiencia Nacional a narcotraficantes y terroristas.

3 – Establece un procedimiento punitivo ‘a la carta’ para casos en los que los tribunales ya han manifestado que no constituían delito, implicando incluso la necesidad de modificar al menos 4 leyes, una de ellas orgánica. Esto conlleva un cambio radical en el sistema jurídico y una fuente de inseguridad para el sector de las TIC (tecnologías de la información y la comunicación). Recordamos, en este sentido, que el intercambio de conocimiento y cultura en la Red es un motor económico importante para salir de la crisis como se ha demostrado ampliamente.

4 – Los mecanismos preventivos urgentes de los que dispone la ley y la judicatura son para proteger a toda la ciudadanía frente a riesgos tan graves como los que afectan a la salud pública. El Gobierno pretende utilizar estos mismos mecanismos de protección global para beneficiar intereses particulares frente a la ciudadanía.

Además la normativa introducirá el concepto de ‘lucro indirecto’, es decir: a mí me pueden cerrrar el blog porque ‘promociono’ a uno que ‘promociona’ a otro que linka a un tercero que hace negocios presuntamente ilícitos.

5 – Recordamos que la propiedad intelectual no es un derecho fundamental contrariamente a las declaraciones del ministro de Justicia, Francisco Caamaño. Lo que es un derecho fundamental es el derecho a la producción literaria y artística.

6 – De acuerdo con las declaraciones de la ministra de Cultura, esta disposición se utilizará exclusivamente para cerrar 200 webs que presuntamente están atentando contra los derechos de autor. Entendemos que si éste es el objetivo de la disposición, no es necesaria, ya que con la legislación actual existen procedimientos que permiten actuar contra webs, incluso con medidas cautelares, cuando presuntamente se esté incumpliendo la legalidad. Por lo que no queda sino recelar de las verdaderas intenciones que la motivan, ya que lo único que añade a la legislación actual es el hecho de dejar a la ciudadanía en una situación de grave indefensión jurídica en el entorno digital.

7 – Finalmente consideramos que la propuesta del Gobierno no sólo es un despilfarro de recursos, sino que será absolutamente ineficaz en sus presuntos propósitos y deja patente la absoluta incapacidad por parte del Ejecutivo de entender los tiempos y motores de la era digital.

La disposición es una concesión más a la vieja industria del entretenimiento en detrimento de los derechos fundamentales de la ciudadanía en la era digital.

La ciudadanía no puede permitir de ninguna manera que sigan los intentos de vulnerar derechos fundamentales de las personas, sin la debida tutela judicial efectiva, para proteger derechos de menor rango como la propiedad intelectual. Dicha circunstancia ya fue aclarada con el dictado de inconstitucionalidad de la ‘ley Corcuera’ (o ‘ley de patada en la puerta’).

El Manifiesto en defensa de los derechos fundamentales en Internet, respaldado por más de 200 000 personas, ya avanzó la reacción y demandas de la ciudadanía antes la perspectiva inaceptable del Gobierno.

Para impulsar un definitivo cambio de rumbo y coordinar una respuesta conjunta, el 9 de enero se ha constituido Red SOStenible, una plataforma representativa de todos los sectores de la sociedad civil afectados. El objetivo es iniciar una ofensiva para garantizar una regulación del entorno digital que permita expresar todo el potencial de la Red y de la creación cultural respetando las libertades fundamentales.

En este sentido, reconocemos como referencia para el desarrollo de la era digital la Carta para la innovación, la creatividad y el acceso al conocimiento, un documento de síntesis elaborado por más de 100 expertos de 20 países que recoge los principios legales fundamentales que deben inspirar este nuevo horizonte.

En particular, consideramos que en estos momentos es especialmente urgente la implementación por parte de gobiernos e instituciones competentes de los siguientes aspectos recogidos en la Carta:

1 – Las/os artistas como todos los trabajadores tienen que poder vivir de su trabajo (referencia punto 2 ‘Demandas legales‘, párrafo B. ‘Estímulo de la creatividad y la innovación’, de la Carta);

2 – La sociedad necesita para su desarrollo de una Red abierta y libre (referencia punto 2 ‘Demandas legales‘, párrafo D ‘Acceso a las infraestructuras tecnológicas’, de la Carta);

3 – El derecho a cita y el derecho a compartir tienen que ser potenciados y no limitados como fundamento de toda posibilidad de información y constitutivo de todo conocimiento (referencia punto 2 ‘Demandas legales‘, párrafo A ‘Derechos en un contexto digital, de la Carta);

4 – La ciudadanía debe poder disfrutar libremente de los derechos exclusivos de los bienes públicos que se pagan con su dinero, con el dinero publico (referencia punto 2 ‘Demandas legales‘, párrafo C ‘Conocimiento común y dominio público’, de la Carta);

5 -Consideramos necesaria una reforma en profundidad del sistema de las entidades de gestión y la abolición del canon digital (referencia punto 2 ‘Demandas legales‘, párrafo B. ‘Estímulo de la creatividad y la innovación’, de la Carta).

Por todo ello, hoy se inicia la campaña INTERNET NO SERA OTRA TELE y se llevarán a cabo diversas acciones ciudadanas durante todo el periodo de la presidencia española de la UE.

Consideramos particularmente importantes en el calendario de la presidencia de turno española el II Congreso de Economía de la Cultura (29 y 30 de marzo en Barcelona), Reunión Informal de ministros de Cultura (30 y 31 de marzo en Barcelona) y la reunión de ministros de Telecomunicaciones (18 a 20 de abril en Granada).

La Red tiene previsto reunirse con representantes nacionales e internacionales de partidos políticos, representantes de la cultura y legaciones diplomáticas.

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(Well, another year starts for me (Second day back at work already!), which basically means I will continue to share items over here in my Posterous Web site, but somehow it seems like some things never change, do they? I wonder whether they would realise what they are playing with at the moment... See this insightful blog post (In Spanish) for more details on why I myself may well be part of those nine million very very soon...)