Sustentar Project | Presentation of "A Necessary Practice"

The Sustentar Project - Multidimensional and Inclusive Platform for Development and ISEG have the honor of inviting you to the presentation of the first artistic intervention of the project's homepage A Necessary Practice, and to an integrated reflection session on the issue of Development Information in response to the United Nations resolution A/RES/3038 (XXVII), on October 24, 2014, World Development Information Day, from 19h to 21h, in the Noble Hall of ISEG.

The session will close with a performance of Bach by the cellist Nuno Abreu.

PROGRAMME

18:30 - 19:00 | Reception of guests and speakers

19:00 - 19:45 | Opening and 1st Part of the Reflection Session

António Mendonça | President of the ISEG School Council

Maria Rosa Borges | Vice - President and President of the Pedagogical Council of ISEG

Nuno Olim Marote | Chairman of the Board of Projeto Sustentar

Jorge Barreto Xavier | Secretary of State for Culture of Portugal

Miguel Palma | Plastic Artist

"Artistic practice instructed by technology. The potential of technology in artistic language."

Adriano Moreira | President of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences / Member of the Advisory Board of Projeto Sustentar

"The rationalization of the national education network" 

Aquiles Alencar - Brayner | British Library Digital Curator
"Technology, information and the role of libraries in selecting and archiving intangible cultural heritage."

19:45 - 20:00 | Signing of the Honor Roll A Necessary Practice

20:00 - 20:20 | Presentation of the intervention of the A Necessary Practice Project homepage

Nuno Olim Marote | Coordinator of A Necessary Practice

Antónia Gaeta | Curator of A Necessary Practice

Susana Mendes Silva | Plastic Artist

20:20 - 21:00 | Part 2 of the reflection session

"Its vision on the issue of communication and information technologies in the integrated relationship with development and knowledge, and in clear response to the suggested in the United Nations resolution A/RES/3038 (XXVII)."

"The impact of information technologies in mobilizing people and causes. The importance of education and communication and access to information as factors of change and transformation of mentalities."

José António Pereirinha | PhD Coordinator in Development Studies at ISEG and Member of the Advisory Board of Projeto Sustentar

Alberto da Ponte | President of RTP
"The public media service. Opportunities and challenges"

Rui Pereira | Former Minister of Internal Affairs / Founder of the Observatory on Security, Organized Crime and Terrorism
"Information and information technology with technology"

Ulisses Correia e Silva | President of UCCLA / Mayor of Praia / Cape Verde

António Beato Teixeira | RTP Administrator
"Information technologies and social development"

Dr. Isabel de Santiago | Visiting Assistant Professor and Researcher in Health Communication at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon
"Ebola Virus: What to report in Public Health. Kiss & Keywords. Media and information technologies in PALOP's"

Closing session

Nuno Olim Marote | Chairman of the Board of Projeto Sustentar

Nuno Abreu | Cellist
Suite Nº2 for Solo Cello by J.S.Bach in D minor, BWV 1008
1 - Prelude | 2 - Allemande | 3 - Courante | 4 - Sarabande | 5 - Minuet | 6 - Giga

On the relevance of the theme of Development Information for the Sustentar Project - Multidimensional and Inclusive Platform for Development and the program of 21 October 2014.

Information on Development is one of the central themes of reflection that we must highlight through the materialization of various contents. These contents will allow us to stimulate a plural discourse on the theme, which is essential to us.

In current times, characterized by the rapid circulation of information and the possibility of generating change and mobilization of society, the epithet "Information for Development" justifies our gesture and action.

It is for the possibility of change and global awareness, in the certainty that it is within our reach to contribute to building a better world, that we will focus and commit ourselves.

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed October 24 as World Development Information Day in 1972, through its resolution A/RES/3038 (XXVII), in the belief that improved dissemination of information would lead to greater awareness of development problems, with results in promoting international development cooperation.

According to the United Nations, information and communication technologies have the potential to provide new solutions to development challenges, highlighting how they can promote economic growth, competitiveness, access to information and knowledge, poverty eradication and social inclusion.

World Development Information Day aims to draw public attention to development problems and the need to strengthen international cooperation to address them.

Marking this date, and in our way highlighting the importance of this ephemeris, it is up to us to promote, in the Salão Nobre of the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, the launch of a set of presentations related to the artistic interventions on the homepage of the project Uma Prática Necessária, with the aim of validating our positioning and establishing ourselves as a dynamic and reference platform for content and communication of artistic practices, and a debate session with the aim of promoting a true and innovative multidimensional and integrated reflection, enriched by the various contributions and personal views, and whose panel is made up of relevant personalities.

This October 24, 2014 will be closed with the interpretation by cellist Nuno Abreu of the Suite No. 2 for Solo Cello by J. S. Bach in D minor, BWV 1008.

I hope you like it. Today, this is our proposal. We challenge for now this Now!

Nuno Olim Marote

(President of the Board of Directors of Projeto Sustentar)