E.3.2.a Communications

To subvert the paradigm of reporting to funders and in order to open the space for creation and sharing common resources, the assembly provides ways to manage the active circulation of information and outcomes produced by each organization and each study or working group. It also provides mechanisms for accountability that means that it recognizes and values not only quantitative or financial data but also the work that we do in permanent recognition of our contexts and our challenges, struggles, achievements and un-learnings.

Avoiding conflict and avoiding increase in the amount of work assumed by each organization implies the management of the AC communications mechanisms, which the network established as part of the self-management tools. They include the following:

Internal Communication (accountability)

• Tam Tam/AC Drum (quarterly newsletter):

TAM-TAM is one of our internal communication tools/mechanisms for accountability. It is an internal digital newsletter that is used to update and share important, relevant and synthesized information with the rest of the AC network about ongoing of AC processes; triangles, permanent activities, working groups (permanent and temporary). It is lead by the permanent TAM TAM working group, but each organization and or working group has to develop their own content .

• Mailing list [e-mail]

The mailing list is a mechanism to share relevant information, share resources and to make collective decisions.

• WhatsApp

The WhatsApp group, AC Family, is a permanent way to share and to keep the love flowing. It is a way of virtually living together and sharing and documenting on a daily basis the personal and affective relationships that are part of the dynamic of the ecosystem. It is an instantaneous way of keeping the conversation alive.

External Communication

• Website

AC as well as the “face” to the outside world. It should communicates and represents the current self-organized structure of AC.

• Brochure

The Brochure will be one of the tools used to communicate what the AC is and what it does. It has not been developed yet.

All the working groups have their own guidelines, describing how they function. (See Appendix I)