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<title>What we believe</title>
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<dc:creator>Leonardo Maldonado</dc:creator>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Our collective drive is based on the findings of our
community, made of entrepreneurs, artists, computer scientists, biologists,
civil journalists, and social activists.</p>
<p>
Our Western Civilization generally understands
language as a tool for describing reality. This is an idea I want to challenge,
based on the groundbreaking findings of some of our teachers/mentors, the
Chileans Francisco Varela (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Varela" target="_blank">see bio</a>&nbsp;),
Humberto Maturana (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Maturana" target="_blank">see bio</a>&nbsp;) and Fernando Flores (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Flores" target="_blank">see bio</a>&nbsp;)
on how to understand the mind, its relationship to the human brain and the role
of language in what makes up our reality.</p>
<p>
The basic statement: language and reality are the
result of social interaction in humans, not the result of a working human
brain.</p>
<p>
And since we firmly believe that language is a
tool for creating reality, we also believe that the telecommunications
revolution that we are participating in, is actually a drastic and unique
moment in human evolution. We socially interact like never before. This is a
discontinuity for our species. This moment in history is a tsunami that
democratizes the capacity for creating new worlds. </p>
<p>
Based on this understanding and know-how, in the
last 20 years we have created several social movements and companies&hellip;</p>
<p>
- A nonprofit foundation, Fundaci&oacute;n Mercator (<a href="http://fundacionmercator.cl/" target="_blank">link</a>&nbsp;) that has
trained over 60 000 young people, how to make their dreams come true.&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- A social activism movement AtinaChile (<a href="http://atinachile.cl/content" target="_blank">link</a>&nbsp;) of over 50 000 people.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- A Web 2.0 startup with a social Network, <a href="http://www.bligoo.com/" target="_blank">www.bligoo.com</a> (<a href="http://www.bligoo.com/" target="_blank">link</a>&nbsp;) of collaborative communities with 160 000
participants</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And four companies:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gl-sa.com/" _base_href="http://www.bligoo.com/">Gestion &amp; Liderazgo S.A.</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.bluecompany.biz/drupal/index.php" _base_href="http://www.bligoo.com/">Blue Company S.A. </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gulliver.cl/" _base_href="http://www.bligoo.com/">Gulliver S.A.</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.insumochina.com/">Insumo China S.A.</a></li>
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