Technology and Social Action - resources

The PRADSAX initiative

AndyDearden — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:13:42 +0000

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 Software Development Programme

AndyDearden — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:21:23 +0000

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.

PRADSAX: An engaged community

AndyDearden — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:24:43 +0000

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.

PRADSAX: An Action Research Programme

AndyDearden — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:22:47 +0000

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: