Look at the territorial development

The articulation of regional networks and thematic cooperation for human development (ART-UNDP) is an initiative that stands out by highlighting the importance of the advancement of the territories to achieve human development. It bases its deliveries on the practices and experiences of those who have shown commitment and assessment of the pillar which supports the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

in this sense, ART played the door of the global expert in land development, Sergio Boisier, who recently brought their knowledge through talks and lectures aimed at entities and individuals focused on the territorial development of Dominican Republic. The meetings were conducted in coordination with the Directorate-General of planning and development land (DGODT), considering issues such as social associativity, knowledge and development: a challenge for politics and knowledge and u000avalues for territorial management in the 21st century.

How do you define development?
Must agree to the idea of the development only exists in the human mind and is a result of the capacity of language to establish abstract relationships, because the development is an abstraction, a utopia. The continuing saga of the human species is the transformation of the human being to human being. Today development tends to be understood as the achievement of a context, environment, climate and others, to facilitate the empowerment of human beings to become human, in their double dimension, biological and spiritual person able to understand, know and love. Development is a proposed humanist. I believe that development is a territorial and decentralized process executed by the people in their place. One of the best definitions of this concept is that flies the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), when he says that "consists of the" u000aindividuals and communities the real subjects, managers and beneficiaries of the development

What factors are involved in development?
I distinguish mainly six factors. One is how much is invested in the region; Another is the accumulation of technological advances and innovations that are introduced therein; another, the accumulation of human capital, i.e. the improvements that people achieve in terms of skills and education. The fourth factor is the external demand, which is composed of exports, the costs of non-residents (tourists) and remittances. The latter are not today somewhat lower. According to ECLAC, annual remittances received Latin America are around $48 billion.

There are other factors that influence?
There is one that has to do with policies. A measure of economic policy can produce different effects in each region. The other factor is the "country project", which cannot see the u000aterritory as something homogeneous. The country project is complex, has many components and must consider regional productive vocations with a vision of future

What makes a winning territory?
There are many factors that indicen to the top of their aspirations. Speed of decision making in organizations, flexibility of response, structural complexity comparable to the environment globalized, malleability, techno-economic, culture, identity and associativity. In this last factor I stop and I explain he is key in the competitive success of the territories and this is expressed at various levels: between the public and the private sector; political projects and shared agendas. Well as between the productive sector, the research sector and the Government sector, generating learning and innovation systems. Between companies, causing productive clusters, and territories, associative regions and virtual.

How? u000amanage effective communication for territorial development?
All social and socialized process always involves a facet of social pedagogy, which may not show as a "school" process of knowledge transfer among which "know" and that "don't know". It's a pedagogy shared through dialogue, in which there is no "master" or "students". All meet the same roles. Societies have to understand that development has a very strong partnership component and is not possible to achieve high levels of associativity without socialized knowledge of the why and the what associate is.

Would who is SERGIO BOISIER?
Sergio Boisier was born in 1939 in Chile, is a commercial engineer (Economist) by the University of Chile, Master of Arts in Regional Science by the University of Pennsylvania in United States and applied economics by the University of Alcalá de Henares, in Spain.

In u000atoday is an independent international consultant and President of the private consulting Center of analysis and action and society.
Was tenured associate professor at the Catholic University of Chile until the year 2004.

And a visiting professor at the Chilean universities of Los Lagos, southern of Chile and the border and at the National University San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Is member Advisor of the Council advisory international the Magister in human development at Local and Regional level, Universidad de La Frontera, Chile.

Between their different positions was head of the quantitative analysis Division and head of the Department of Regional planning in the Office of national planning of Chile in the 1960's.

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