PRADSAX

What is PRADSAX?

PRADSAX refers to the Practical Design for Social Action (PRADSA) information and resource eXchange.

PRADSAX will deliver:

New ways of working to supports our collective
intelligence, to help us get resources to improve the availability and
use of technology in social action.

PRADSAX is:

PRADSAX: The Design Activity

PRADSAX the design activity is a project to design
a new way of working to deliver the collective intelligence that we
need to help us get resources to improve the availability and use of
technology in social action.

A Software Development Program

PRADSAX the software development programme is an
effort to create the new software tools that are needed to support our
eXchange activity. In a world of mashups, open source and web 2.0 and
with our limited resources, we want to re-use not re-invent. In a world
of agile software development, we want to start by implementing the
scenarios and user-strories that gives us the greatest additional value
for the least developer effort.

An Engaged Community

Ultimately, PRADSAX will succeed of fail because
of people engaging together. Our community is interacting, discussing,
debating, designing and developing on-line and face-to-face. We are
meeting here at www.technologyandsocialaction.org, in a googlegroup pradsa@googlegroups.com, on del.icio.us (using the PRADSA and PRADSAX tags, and other tags) and elsewhere. If you share our vision, come and join us.

An Action Research Program

This program is both action (we want to create a
system) and research (we are trying to investigate a general question
about designing technology in 21st Century social action contexts).

Our (initial) question is:

How do we go about designing new e-practices in the space of technology and social action given: