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...
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...
As a consequence of the Donostia-St Sebastian Cultural Capital City 2016 preparation phase, I was invited by the organization to talk openly about the Basque language challenges in some years time. In addition to a large amount of quantitative and sociolinguistic data that many institutions...
In the Basque Public TV, EiTB, I was interviewed sharing perceptions and connections (as I always like to call them), about the current diagnosis of the Basque Country. Topics that were mentioned in the interview: Google, participation, politics, governance, identity, globalization, among others....
Maybe Mikel Laboa is not very popular for those that have not grown up being Basques. For those who I share my feelings with, they may understand what I felt when on the 1st December 2008 Mikel Laboa passed away. At that time, I was...
On 2nd December 2008, I gave a Faculty Seminar at the Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno NV (USA). I introduced the preliminary ideas of my work-in-progress PhD dissertation on the Basque City-Region or Euskal Hiria....
