A program that fosters social inclusion through offering access to ICT tools. The Òmnia network is a preventative, socio-educational, community and support program for collectives who are at the greatest risk of vulnerability. It aims to encourage, both individually as collectively, inclusion and links between the people in the community. It is directed at the general population, paying special attention to people at social risk, especially if they need to improve their capacity to overcome their difficulties in accessing ICT, with the aim of preventing their exclusion from the community.
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Prison Blogs, a Place of Freedom Behind Bars: Notes From a Workshop at the Barcelona Youth Detention Centre
Jorge Franganillo (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5975-7.ch007
Abstract
This chapter reports on the cultural workshop which, from 2006 to 2008, encouraged a group of inmates at the Barcelona Youth Detention Centre to produce and publish blogs as a joint project between the Òmnia on-site internet access point, the prison library, and the Faculty of Library and Information Science of the University of Barcelona. The objectives of the project were to promote inmate education, improve their level of information, encourage them to read and write more, instill some ICT skills in them or strengthen those they already had, and broaden their contact with the outside world. Prison libraries are presented as an agent that supports the intellectual, social, and cultural development of inmates and thus can help them on the road to personal betterment. The prisoners' responses are critically assessed; the experience was considered positive, although the insufficient technological infrastructure and the prisoners' rejection of certain social conventions represent obstacles.