Strategy of sustainability in virtual communities using software guidelines: case study "Virtual community to support the ethnoeducation processes of the indigenous culture of NASA"

Abstract

This article presents the most important elements to propose and evaluate strategies for sustainability in virtualcommunities and also shows an application for the “virtual community to support ethnicEducation processes inthe Nasa indigenous community (http://www.ewa.edu.co)”. This effort is part of a project involving the Universityof Cauca, Colciencias and Nasa community authorities, they are looking for alternatives for the incorporation ofICTs in ethnicEducation processes in the Nasa indigenous community located in the Department of Cauca. Ingeneral for some sustainability strategy works its required a software guidelines to implementation them in the ICTenvironment, therefore this article proposes a software guidelines that guide the deployment and implementationof sustainability strategies in a virtual community, at the end the this article, we present a case of implementing asustainability strategy for the Nasa Virtual Community.