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Until quite recently, April 18, 2013, it was still possible to submit works for participation in co-located events that were held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on days 09 to 12 July 2013: the WMSCI 2013 (World Multi – Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics) – 17th International Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics; and the EISTA 2013 (International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications) – 11th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications.
Other events co-located, which owned similar calendars to both we signalized, were: IMSCI 2013 (7th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics; the DeMset 2013 (3rd International Summer Conference on Design and Modeling in Science, Education and Technology), the IMETI 2013 (6th International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation) and CITSA 2013 (10th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications).
In order to instigate registered participants to circulate in interdisciplinary communications, everyone was able to participate in sessions of several co-located events. As well as the entrants also received a CD containing the processes of all events and got a password to access any virtual session of these events.
Both types of papers submission, virtual and physical, had the same review process and authors of the best papers were invited to adapt their work to publish them on Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics with no additional cost.
A conference with similar themes to those of co-located conferences in Orlando will be held in Porto, Portugal, from 30 June to 06 July, 2013 (International Conference on Complexity, Cybernetics and Science and Engineering of Information: CCISE 2013).
Here follows three important links for those who want to know and/or participate in these events:
The first link is from WNSCI 2013: http://www.iiis-summer13.org/wmsci/website/home.asp?vc=1
The second link belongs to EISTA 2013: http://www.iiis-summer13.org/imsci/wesite/home.asp?vc=5
The third link is from IMSCI 2013: http://www.iiis-summer13.org/imsci/website/default.asp?vc = 17
The mission of Freire Institute dates back to 1970s and 1980s, with the mission of INODEP (Ecumenical Institute for the Development of People) based in Paris, whose founder and first president was Paulo Freire.
Freire Institute
Freire Institute is an organization dedicated to teaching based on and for community. In the training programs of the institution the prior knowledge and experience of indivual’s life are the raw material for Education. The tools and approaches are, therefore, based on the work of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and, in this sense, is a tool for individual and community empowerment through transformation. These programs and activities are open to individuals, community groups and churches. Besides the appreciation of prior experience, between freirean concepts highlighted by institution in its events, courses and publications are critical to banking concept of education, dialogicity, generating themes and awareness/critical action of the student. Saul Alinsky (1909 – 1972) is another important reference constantly pointed out by the group on the website and in the emends of the projects. He was a community leader and an American writer who is considered, in general, the founder of the organization of modern communities. He became famous with the book Rules for Radicals – A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, his last work, published in 1971.
