After sharing these ideas with lecturers & practitioners from some USA & European cities (agents as universities, local institutions, key players and development agencies), I could sum up this Prologue in a Decalogue structure. This Chapter is going to be the Prologue of a book...
As the part of the funded project I took part in a project and book titled: "Lurralde (CON)ex: fostering a socially innovative culture in the Basque Country". The book was a collaborative project among the institutions such as University of the Basque Country, Ikerlan Technology...
This article is a forward looking view in the field of the Basque language enhancement. More particularly, this is the Strategic Framework called Basque 2.0 that I outlined and tried to apply in my two-years policy making and advising contribution as the Director of the...
This paper seeks to identify the key drivers of Basque as a minority language in relation to its usage on the Internet. I have founded and worked on the idea that the Basque 2.0 paradigm can very much provide as a methodological and strategic scope...
As a consequence of the Donostia-St Sebastian Cultural Capital City 2016 preparation phase, I was invited by the organization to talk openly about the Basque language challenges in some years time. In addition to a large amount of quantitative and sociolinguistic data that many institutions...
In this article, the author captures the current moment of the Social Networks trend, being critical with some techno-deterministic statements and wondering about the real social impact of these tools....
Maybe Mikel Laboa is not very popular for those that have not grown up being Basques. For those who I share my feelings with, they may understand what I felt when on the 1st December 2008 Mikel Laboa passed away. At that time, I was...
This article aims to explain what I saw in Google, Palo Alto in San Francisco. My summary was that Google was simply an massive iceberg where the we could notice just the 20% on the surface, but actually not easily observed the rest of the...
There was a huge noise outside where I lived, Twin Peaks in San Francisco. I left my home, started walking and ended up in a crowd which was cheering and shouting: It seemed to be the beginning of the Obama era. Nevertheless, was it a...
