After 6 years of working beween 2005-2011, interviewing and doing some international (mainly USA (Portland, Oregon) & Ireland, but also Denmark, Sweden, Japan, Germany) participative observation field work research about Cities & Territories, Igor Calzada Ph.D. presented the BOOK that was published in a full...
As a consequence of the Networked Gipuzkoa project funded by Gipuzkoa Province Council and St Sebastian City Council, I presented an accepted paper at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, at The Governance of Large-Scale Projects International Symposium that took place on 2nd October...
As part of the project of Networked Gipuzkoa about "Social Capital and Competitiveness: New Perspectives", I co-authored the summary book representing the University of Mondragon in coordination with the Orkestra - University of Deusto and the University of Oxford. The title of the book is:...
Nearly one year ago, I watched the "AmerikanUak" film at the St. Sebastian International Film Festival. It reminded me of many things: Moments and landscapes in which I lived for a year and a half around the Western USA. For sure, it is a really...
Being promoted from the Basque Government's Linguistic Policy Vice-Ministry, the direction that I coordinated for at least one and a half years fostered one research project that was titled: Social Networks and Basque 2.0 in the European Scope. The project aimed to identify the profile...
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...
