The technologies are every day going faster and faster, we were born on the age of the computers, mobiles, internet, and all the other services and devises that we call technology. But are we really connected with the technology, is it really a helper or is taking off time to do other thing? By my perspective, in my field the technologies well used are the best tool that we could have, but if we don’t have the skills is also the biggest challenge and we need to work out about it.
First, the technologies implemented in the public management have been a very new process inserted in a biggest one. The modernization of the state as an important change in the management of the public policies asks for new process to do their public commitment. In this case the technologies have been used for reach the new goals of the administration, like efficiency, efficacy and transparency. With the new technologies of information and communication (TIC) involved in this modernization process, the state pretend be closer to the people and their demands.
Secondly, about the technologies in used for the subjects, they have been very useful, especially for the ones that I have to write a lot of papers and so research. The technologies have to be focuses to help and contribute to the knowledge. We can see that everybody uses technology in our days, but are we really using it well? Some people (including myself) spend all day behind a screen. Then we need to think about the benefits and risk that the technology is bringing to us, probably we need increase our abilities to handle the new systems and programs. I know that it helps a lot connecting people faster, but some time I think that we are losing the touch contact that is very important especially in my major. The problem is not the technology by itself, would be illogic complain with a machine. The problem starts with us. We need to change the way that we are using this new tools and realize that they are just a helper, not a way to live.
Concluding, the technologies are very important in our time, probably we couldn’t do a lot of things without it. The government has implemented the techlogies to work closer to the people and for the people, but the result is not the best yet. Using the technologies in my subjects in a good way, I can take advantage and do better things that without it. some times I would just like know more about technologies and try to used in the best way for my subjects and challenges which usually need of technology to reach it.
miércoles, 18 de noviembre de 2009
domingo, 15 de noviembre de 2009
2009 most impactant news
This year that is leaving us has been full of very important news. Doing a summarizing of which new has impacted me the most, is probable the current situation in Tijuana, Mexico. This new how I said in not from Chile, but it has to be with a problem that affects all the countries in the world, the traffic of drugs. The first time that I sow this new it was in the newspaper, I got impacted because it shows a file of dead bodies lied in the street so I got closet and read the main title. It was something like “16 lives take every day the drug`s traffic in Tijuana, Mexico”. This new is not quite recently actually, this problem star a lot of years ago.
Tijuana, also called the “death frontier” is the most dangerous city in Mexico, that because two of the most important drugs dealer of that country, “Las Madres” and “El Cartel de Sinaloa”, are in a constant fight. The police of Tijuana found 16 death bodies, most of them with torture signals. Some of the bodies were dropped out of the government offices. Most of the victims were people from the construction and there were two young boys one of them of just 10 years old.
I my perspective this successes are very relevant for the country, here in Chie we have problem with the drugs traffic as well as in Mexico. Probable the size of the situation is different and in Chile we have the situation more controlled but any way, is a problem that not just affects the law, also is a social problem. There are families behind the drug dealers and all the violence and marginality that generate damage to the society. I have to say that this problem is so far from my reality, but I some way all the things that happen in the world touch you in some point of your life.
I feel very sad about the situation that is happening in Tijuana, I thing that the authorities have not put more control over this problem, they have to oversight hardly what is happening in the city and make real changes with the drugs policy.
Tijuana, also called the “death frontier” is the most dangerous city in Mexico, that because two of the most important drugs dealer of that country, “Las Madres” and “El Cartel de Sinaloa”, are in a constant fight. The police of Tijuana found 16 death bodies, most of them with torture signals. Some of the bodies were dropped out of the government offices. Most of the victims were people from the construction and there were two young boys one of them of just 10 years old.
I my perspective this successes are very relevant for the country, here in Chie we have problem with the drugs traffic as well as in Mexico. Probable the size of the situation is different and in Chile we have the situation more controlled but any way, is a problem that not just affects the law, also is a social problem. There are families behind the drug dealers and all the violence and marginality that generate damage to the society. I have to say that this problem is so far from my reality, but I some way all the things that happen in the world touch you in some point of your life.
I feel very sad about the situation that is happening in Tijuana, I thing that the authorities have not put more control over this problem, they have to oversight hardly what is happening in the city and make real changes with the drugs policy.
miércoles, 11 de noviembre de 2009
Post # 10: Challenges in your discipline
The challenges in my discipline are related with how we can give a better service to the people. The public management as the politic science have the responsibility to identify the social needs of the people and try to solve it, creating new institutional resources and new was to connect the government goals with the demands of the people. About the technology, a very important success is happening in our days. The modernization of the state is a very important process in the management of the government. The way to do the tasks in the administration areas is different now, we can use a lot of devises that help us to improve our service in attendance to the people. A very important challenge in this field is that we must to know use the technology in the most efficient way, it mast to be a helper than a stone in our way to do our responsibilities. A unsolved issue in this area may be that we don’t have the tools, the academic tools to use the technological devises. Probably we now how use a the basic programs in a computer, but we need no go far as we can. To contribute to the knowledge we need get new ideas of the technology, and the help that the bring to our discipline.
The social challenge is definitely the most important one in this discipline. If you if you can not find the way to help the people and try to understand what they need or what they really want and give them a really solution then this challenge has not being reach. About this, maybe the only way to solve this challenge is working with more dedication and also creating really solution to the people, far from the political views.
The challenges in the education fiel in our discipline, are focuses in create more spaces to improve our social skills. The practice of the theory has been take away from the classroom and we need to be closer to the real world. A problem about this issue is that we are currentrly facing a very important problem with the professors if we can not give them what they deserve we ca not think to solve our academic problems. So first we need to find a soltion for they demands and then work toghether to solve the educational problem.
I would say that all the challenges that my discipline has can be solved by just one thing. The dedication and responsibility that we put on our work every day. Although a lot of people don’t thrust in the public management because they say that is just bureaucracy, and that maybe is true but probably if w don’t take this problem now and each one try to change the way to do the thing we could work out all the challenges in the path.
The social challenge is definitely the most important one in this discipline. If you if you can not find the way to help the people and try to understand what they need or what they really want and give them a really solution then this challenge has not being reach. About this, maybe the only way to solve this challenge is working with more dedication and also creating really solution to the people, far from the political views.
The challenges in the education fiel in our discipline, are focuses in create more spaces to improve our social skills. The practice of the theory has been take away from the classroom and we need to be closer to the real world. A problem about this issue is that we are currentrly facing a very important problem with the professors if we can not give them what they deserve we ca not think to solve our academic problems. So first we need to find a soltion for they demands and then work toghether to solve the educational problem.
I would say that all the challenges that my discipline has can be solved by just one thing. The dedication and responsibility that we put on our work every day. Although a lot of people don’t thrust in the public management because they say that is just bureaucracy, and that maybe is true but probably if w don’t take this problem now and each one try to change the way to do the thing we could work out all the challenges in the path.
miércoles, 4 de noviembre de 2009
Post # 9: Improving your faculty facilities.
I am studying in what we call “the Escuelita”, the Escuelita is part of the INAP or Institute of Public Management of the University of Chile. We don`t really have a faculty for a lot of manage problem, the school of government and public management has never been for a long time in a faculty, so that set us in a disadvantage situation in comparison with the other faculties or institutes of the University. There is such a big gap between some faculties and our schools, if you go to the economic faculty and then come here you are probably going to ask yourself if you are in the same university.
The most important things to improve in “the Escuelita” is the infrastructure, it is really bad, almost going down and that is very depressive even for people who is not a student of this major. The out side people can see how unfair is the distribution of the money in the university. Although in the last year there have been some changes for good, they are not enough. We nee improve our classrooms, more places where read in quiet and places to study in groups.
Personally I think that if we want to change this current situation we need to put more emphasize in the good management of the recourses of the university, and also making more awareness among the students. To resolve this situation I would propose a plan to reorganize the resources, and building a new place for this major with all the things that we demand. If we have more space to develop our skills, a comfortable place to study and the facilities to improve in the major the benefits would be great. Probably more people would be interested in apply for this major, other important point is that a lot of student who get in to this major in the firs or second year quit because this was not what they were thinking about and the environment doesn´t help to full their expectations of what it mean being a student in the University of Chile.
The most important and closest improvement that we need is in relation with the professor’s matters, if the university can not pay well and in the right time is very difficult thing that we could improve in the infrastructure. Finally all the promises still being the biggest dream of “the Escuelita”.
The most important things to improve in “the Escuelita” is the infrastructure, it is really bad, almost going down and that is very depressive even for people who is not a student of this major. The out side people can see how unfair is the distribution of the money in the university. Although in the last year there have been some changes for good, they are not enough. We nee improve our classrooms, more places where read in quiet and places to study in groups.
Personally I think that if we want to change this current situation we need to put more emphasize in the good management of the recourses of the university, and also making more awareness among the students. To resolve this situation I would propose a plan to reorganize the resources, and building a new place for this major with all the things that we demand. If we have more space to develop our skills, a comfortable place to study and the facilities to improve in the major the benefits would be great. Probably more people would be interested in apply for this major, other important point is that a lot of student who get in to this major in the firs or second year quit because this was not what they were thinking about and the environment doesn´t help to full their expectations of what it mean being a student in the University of Chile.
The most important and closest improvement that we need is in relation with the professor’s matters, if the university can not pay well and in the right time is very difficult thing that we could improve in the infrastructure. Finally all the promises still being the biggest dream of “the Escuelita”.
miércoles, 28 de octubre de 2009
free time
Having free time at the university is something very unusual, the most of the time you have to spend you time studying or doing some paper for the college, and it gets worst if you beside the studies you have to work. Any way when I have at least a little of free time I enjoy it the most that I can. The things that I like to do when I have free time is doing sport like jogging and if I don’t have to do anything important the next day I like to go out with mi friends. For me even with a good conversation with someone is a good thing to do in my free time. When there is a long weekends I try to travel to my hometown in the south and share with my family and see my friends, in my house I usually work in the garden with my mother. Like I work in weekend I just have like 5 hours for me in the whole weekends but now that I quit I hope that the time for me increase, I am really tired.
The technology that we can handle like mobiles and computers has been a great help for the students, if my computed doesn’t work is like a nightmare. We have to get used so much to the technology because it helps doing easier the thing that we have to do. With the technology we have a little bet more of time to do other things, probably not things for themselves but at the end of the day you can rest a little longer, and that is very valuable.
For the university people as me is very important use you free time in a very efficient way because we don’t have enough time for doing all the things that we have to do, so I think that the most of the time that we have free time you take for you. The modernity has put over our shoulders a lot of tasking and stress, if you can not be at the same step that the rest you stay back. Continually you have to spend you time in you job or in the university, we are in a time when the time for ourselves is the less time in ours life. A very important problem is that we don’t know how to organize our time, if we use our time doing really important things maybe we would have more time for ourselves.
Probably if I had more time for my I would spend it going to the swimming pool, tidying up my room or traveling to my house in Temuco. I think that having more time you can also have a better life with less stress levels. Some times the people say that you don’t use your time well, but I say that is kind of impossible use well you time if you have one million things to do.
The technology that we can handle like mobiles and computers has been a great help for the students, if my computed doesn’t work is like a nightmare. We have to get used so much to the technology because it helps doing easier the thing that we have to do. With the technology we have a little bet more of time to do other things, probably not things for themselves but at the end of the day you can rest a little longer, and that is very valuable.
For the university people as me is very important use you free time in a very efficient way because we don’t have enough time for doing all the things that we have to do, so I think that the most of the time that we have free time you take for you. The modernity has put over our shoulders a lot of tasking and stress, if you can not be at the same step that the rest you stay back. Continually you have to spend you time in you job or in the university, we are in a time when the time for ourselves is the less time in ours life. A very important problem is that we don’t know how to organize our time, if we use our time doing really important things maybe we would have more time for ourselves.
Probably if I had more time for my I would spend it going to the swimming pool, tidying up my room or traveling to my house in Temuco. I think that having more time you can also have a better life with less stress levels. Some times the people say that you don’t use your time well, but I say that is kind of impossible use well you time if you have one million things to do.
miércoles, 14 de octubre de 2009
Summary from a career-related article from The Guardian
Unemployment: what the experts say
In Guadian.co.uk, Wednesday 14 October 2009
This article deals with the current situation of how the economic recession has affected the employment, decreasing it in the last year. The unemployment past figure of 2.469 million of joblessness people, now is more optimist whit the current statistics figures that show a lees increase that which was expected, but, is that really a sign of hope for the unemployment issue?.
According to Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight, gives a no so hopeful perspective of the situation, meanwhile the worst of the unemployment period has past, he expect that still having a way to rise, that because the economy does not have the strength to creates new jobs in a near time. Mr. Archer also explains that the youth unemployment could reach 1 million the coming year that because the school leavers are not finding job and the next school leavers will be in the same situation what probably will produce an increase in the youth unemployment if the authorities do not concern about it. About the same situation Martina Milburn, chief executive of the Prince's Trust, talks about the needing of support for the youth employment. She puts emphasize in the human cost that the recession has put on the youth people; she says that “Every one of those unemployed is a real person with real talents that can make a difference to this country”.
In the same hand of Mr. Archer, Colin Ellis, European economist at Daiwa Securities, explain that UK still in the “woods” and the unemployment could reach the amount of 3 million, mean this figure is lower that which was expected at the beginning of the recession, is enough high to believe in a real decrease of the unemployment, and if we plus the figures of the inflation, the situation is not so hopeful as we thought.
Summarizing the fact of a lower rising of the unemployment is a sign of the economy relieve, but in a lot of ways the recession is not over and the effects are over the table , the unemployment data is the main sign that the crisis has not left UK.
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/14/unemployment-rise-september-economists-verdict
In Guadian.co.uk, Wednesday 14 October 2009
This article deals with the current situation of how the economic recession has affected the employment, decreasing it in the last year. The unemployment past figure of 2.469 million of joblessness people, now is more optimist whit the current statistics figures that show a lees increase that which was expected, but, is that really a sign of hope for the unemployment issue?.
According to Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight, gives a no so hopeful perspective of the situation, meanwhile the worst of the unemployment period has past, he expect that still having a way to rise, that because the economy does not have the strength to creates new jobs in a near time. Mr. Archer also explains that the youth unemployment could reach 1 million the coming year that because the school leavers are not finding job and the next school leavers will be in the same situation what probably will produce an increase in the youth unemployment if the authorities do not concern about it. About the same situation Martina Milburn, chief executive of the Prince's Trust, talks about the needing of support for the youth employment. She puts emphasize in the human cost that the recession has put on the youth people; she says that “Every one of those unemployed is a real person with real talents that can make a difference to this country”.
In the same hand of Mr. Archer, Colin Ellis, European economist at Daiwa Securities, explain that UK still in the “woods” and the unemployment could reach the amount of 3 million, mean this figure is lower that which was expected at the beginning of the recession, is enough high to believe in a real decrease of the unemployment, and if we plus the figures of the inflation, the situation is not so hopeful as we thought.
Summarizing the fact of a lower rising of the unemployment is a sign of the economy relieve, but in a lot of ways the recession is not over and the effects are over the table , the unemployment data is the main sign that the crisis has not left UK.
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/14/unemployment-rise-september-economists-verdict
miércoles, 30 de septiembre de 2009
a world of sport
The sport is a very important activity that all we should practice. In my general experience all my life I have been very close to this issue principally because my father is a sport teacher. I used to practice a lot of sport when I lived in Temuco like swimming; atheism; volleyball and basketball, now here in Santiago I don’t have enough time to practice all the spot that I would like to but I do some jogging to relax and for being in shape. Doing sport is a very healthy activity so I always say to my friends if they want to run with me but they don’t have much time to go out. Some of my classmates go to the university gym I think that is a very food initiative. The most of the people that I know do some kind of sport but if I have the opportunity to meet someone who don’t practice any sport I probably would say “if you want to feel better do sport and remember the sentence healthy mind in a healthy body”.
In the general context that we are inserting as a nation we are very lazy, the most of the people don’t do anything to have a good and healthy body. That is maybe the government has no put attention to this issue or the money that they invest is not enough to effort the sport programs. But the most important in that we have to change our cultural thinking about sport which is the beginning to make conscience about the importance of doing sports.
The rodeo for me is not a sport, is a cruel activity that should to be eradicated. I know that is part of our culture as Chileans but is to aggressive and sad that I can imagine doing an Olympic of “rodeo a la chilena”. Another kind of sport that is very awful is the bulls running in Spain. It’s just about killing and humiliating animals, in my perspective that can’t be considerate as a sport.
In the general context that we are inserting as a nation we are very lazy, the most of the people don’t do anything to have a good and healthy body. That is maybe the government has no put attention to this issue or the money that they invest is not enough to effort the sport programs. But the most important in that we have to change our cultural thinking about sport which is the beginning to make conscience about the importance of doing sports.
The rodeo for me is not a sport, is a cruel activity that should to be eradicated. I know that is part of our culture as Chileans but is to aggressive and sad that I can imagine doing an Olympic of “rodeo a la chilena”. Another kind of sport that is very awful is the bulls running in Spain. It’s just about killing and humiliating animals, in my perspective that can’t be considerate as a sport.
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