To Develop specific eDevelopment (eD) tools to empower a specific community to implement its specific eD.

Reason: after 2 years and a half of a more traditional community self-diagnosis and self-improvement project, the Coatepec community has accomplished little.

In the Summer of 1999, I participated in an undergraduate Social Work project coordinated by Mexico's Secretariat of Social Development. The purpose was to aid the development of the community, a very inaccessible, remote, underserved agricultural community of 675 inhabitants in the mountains of the state of Puebla.

The methodology used was called Community Self-Diagnosis.

The goals were:

to record the history of the community, its present situation, geography, know-how, major production fields, traditions and lifestyle before they were lost; and to help the community to use its knowledge and ideas to analyze its needs, to find solutions, and to take the decisions leading to its own development.

My Coatepec experience tells me that every community has valuable unique knowledge and that the solutions to its own problems should be brought out by the community itself.

Nevertheless:

– no eDevelopment kind of talk took place (options have to be presented to them),

– 2 years and a half later little has been accomplished.

(For more details see Coatepec Community Development Project)

To develop an adaptable general eDevelopment Model for different communities. (see eD Model)

To develop an updateable single portal to compile eD sources and resources.

So that different communities, researchers and interested parties can have easier access to relevant information, applications, and intercommunication.

And, therefore,

1) to help disadvantaged communities by aiding them to become better on their own –coinciding with the Digital Nations Consortium’s objective, “to empower.”     

2 ) to do graduate studies by working on specific real life problems.     

3) to attend the best institution and work with the best people in the media field.

4) to truly excel in my profession.