Beyond Rethinking International Co-operation between EUROPE & Latin America PILOT PéROJECT @LIS " SHILL SHORTAGE" Premise for implementing the MoU of the Intenational NETWORK - To all potential partners of the Project @LIS on e.Learning in a cultural diversity on the issue SKILL SHORTAGE for developing contemporary KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN ECONOMY. Dear colleagues and friends, starting with the debate that will be necessary for developing a Shared Memorandum of Understanding of the network of partners I would like to underline the following key challenge that will be the fundamental aim of the "SKILL SHORTAGE" @LIS PILOT PROJECT . As a matter of facts a key challenge of contemporary transition between industrial society towards knowledge driven economy is the e.workforce skill development . To develop educational strategies in internet to focus this general need of the developmental networked economy , is becoming a world wide need to grow up a model and units of "networking e.learning" (Net-Learning) on the general issue SKILL SHORTAGE for developing contemporary KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN ECONOMY . Starting from different economic and cultural point of view, among Europe and Latin America Countries , that will constitute the richness for the complex solution of this developmental problem, we consider a great contribution to overcome some conditions of the contemporary increasing of depressed economy around the entire , to develop a Networking e.learning pilot project on the issue SKILL SHORTAGE to enhance the quality of intellectual e.workforce of the Information Society. The initial proposal of the LRE-EGO-CreaNET of the University of Florence will be focused on the strategic alignment of e.workforce to the economic development of "Networked Knowledge Society", by means an common effort to create new career opportunities in the context of permanent education methodologies and strategies of Net-Learning for e. workers at all skill levels . To develop skilled e.workforce, as well as a catalyst to economic sustainable co-operative development , we suggest to initiate debate the following short list of issues that can be necessary to start to elaborate the MoU and after the pilot project @LIS in a shared of knowledge development 1) Scenery of Society Driven Economy 2) Open Net.learning for the virtual community international organisation 3) Net-Learning models of lifelong learning of e.workforce 4) Educational design and interactive use of net.learning platform 5) Knowledge Management for Enterprise &Human Resource development 6) e.Working planning in an international context of net.learning 7) e.Quality Methodology and indicators of collaborative assessment 8) Working&Business Plan of the Pilot Project I suggest also to see a before proposed by LRE/EGO-CreaNET MODEL of VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION for BUSINESS LABOUR VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY for e.SOCIETY in : http://www.see.it/blues/ Because of the dimensions great dimension of @LIS proposal on e.learning in a different cultural dimension need in principle to understand certain net-learning in a not localised international context of sharing knowledge. Therefore starting from the previous issues , in order to explain net-learning in the cyberspace, LRE-EGO-CreaNET think that it will be necessary to redefine what the learning approach is and what kinds of infrastructure should we build. In fact the net-learning activities in the cyberspace took place as a mode of learning by networking and navigating in a non-linear fashion, which is different from the old version of "e.learning long-distance activities" finalised to transfer pre-defined disciplinary contents. Net-learning is an interactive creative endeavour developed in a not- linear fashion. Therefore for a pilot program @LIS of Net Learning, that would like to respect and improve different cultures background it will be mandatory to reconstruct the obsolete "e-learning" technology practices. Essentially in the net -learning theory we must provide a framework for understanding how the learners develop a research & development on SKILL SHORTAGE selecting , editing and organising on the WWW the digitalized information into new creative shared knowledge. Therefore we need, during the description of Pilot Project WORKING PLAN, to develop an "net-learning theory" , going to result to develop a new models , methods and strategies of net- learning by navigating in the cyberspace; as a matter of facts it is too easy to understand that Net-learning in the cyberspace is quite different to the traditional long distance transfer of contents and we need to study a new approach for NETWORKING e.LEANING , following the change from the Technology Driven Economy to the Knowledge Driven Economy. For developing a good pilot project probably we need to reply to some questions as well as the following : How can we define what, better solution for Net-learning, can be promoted in the digital context of the proper country for developing SKILL BUILDING opportunities ? How can we set out net-learning strategic approaches to lifelong education in a different cultural international dimension ? How does the net-learning very complex enterprise contribute to the ways in which learners approach to learning to overcome SKILL SHORTAGE of intellectual "e.workforce" contributing to a co-operative sustainable KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY all over the world ? The above asking questions can be given a result for the premise of MoU off digital net-learning pilot project @LIS on SKILL SHORTAGE open to a very large space- extension and different dimensions of many cultural contexts of experiencing into a net-learning international situations. If you like to start to this open debate to the above or other issues and questions that you kindly would propose to the Forum debate , you can utilise the forum http://www.edulab.it/egocrea/ Using the password PMEGOCREA using the languages: English or Spanish or French or Italian or other... that we tray to translate. Finally I would like to ask to all colleagues and friends in the list of this mail that would like to be effective partner to the networking e.learning SKILL SHORTAGE @LIS Pilot project to send to me a brief letter of intent by traditional surface Post to my address written in the head paper of your participating institution, enclosing a brief profile of your institution. In this letter of intent that you need to send to me approximately before the 30/JUNE-2002 , you will to specify that you would like to participate as well as an interactive partner to the networking e.learning SKILL SHORTAGE @LIS Pilot project proposed by the LRE-EGO-CreaNET of the University of Florence Italy and you will add a brief comment about your role in the pilot project development, with the indication of the name e.mail and phone of the Co-ordinator of the Pilot-Project in your Institution . Thank you very much for your kind co-operation . My best regards Paolo Manzelli FLORENCE JUNE/05/2002 -- Director of LRE // EGO-CreaNET PAOLO MANZELLI <LRE@unifi.it> http://www.chim1.unifi.it/group/education/index.html Education Research Laboratory / EGO-CreaNET Via Maragliano 77 -50144 - Firenze - Italia Tel//Fax.:+39/055/332549 ; handy GSM ;+39//335/6760004