Immigrantmedia_16122009

Immigrants social media pilot EPACE & Somus with Moniheli

Done this far
Interviews
Infopankki
Jolly Dragon
Workshops
VTT expats
Public sector related to immigrants
Moniheli NGOs
Online discussion: http://owela.vtt.fi/immigrantmedia
Setting up the project team

Collaboration
Somus
VTT, TKK, University of Tampere
EPACE
“ Exchanging good practices for the promotion of an active citizenship in the EU”, project by Ministry of Justice
Piloting good practices in activation of especially students and immigrants, utilization of social media
Moniheli
Project that aims to establish a functional network for immigrant organisations and associations dealing with multicultural issues
Coordinated by Multicultural Association Familia Club ry

Pilot
Social media pilot for the use of immigrant associations in the Helsinki metropolitan area
Developing and testing a participation model and supporting online tools
Combination of existing online tools and development of some new components

Method
Community-driven participatory design
Users as designers and decision-makers, when developing services for them
Researchers facilitate the process & give resources
Core team:
Immigrants
Researchers (EPACE, Somus)
Moniheli representatives
Some phases of the process are open for everyone
Ways of participation: meetings, online tools

Solutions forum vision
Solutions forum is a
positive meeting place
for both immigrants and natives
for knowledge sharing and problem solving
combining physical and online spaces
Place for finding solutions both for ad hoc and long term issues
Networking people who share the same interest (e.g. in integrating immigrants into society) and empower them to act on the issues they find important

Web Solutions forum Face to face events Database of solutions and solution makers

Events calendar vision
Digital event calendar:
supports interaction and dialogue between natives and immigrants & NGOs and citizens
encourages and enables everyone to participate in various events
enabling event experience to be continued and shared in the digital channels

Project implementation
Project team: Somus, Epace, Moniheli + representatives from immigrant organizations
Workshops & Owela with other stakeholders
Participatory project budgeting for some project work
Moniheli as permanent ”owner” of service, if pilot is successful?

Development process
Iterative development, 4 week cycles
1st version should be in pilot phase by end of Feb/2010
Piloting and incremental development based on user feedback (starting March 2010)
To be discussed
amount of involvement
anyone else needed
involvement methods

Immigrantmedia_16122009

by Pirjo Näkki on Dec 18, 2009

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