Newsletter
Volume 30| 2007 | Number 2
ABA Colombia, 2006-2007
By Wilson López López
ABA Colombia completed another year of development. We published two issues of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (CIAF) http://www.revistaiaf.abacolombia.org.co/, edited with the Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF). ICBF is a governmental institution in the office of Social Protection that seeks to solve diverse kind of problems such as nutritional deficiency, family instability and disintegration, and abandoned children. CIAF was also published on the Internet, and during the past year reached more than 33,000 visitors. It is clear that the journal’s topics are of transcendental importance for Colombia, Latin America and the world in general. It is clear, too, that CIAF is one of ABA Colombia’s projects with the largest visibility and impact. Nonetheless, the project depends on the bureaucratic dynamic of governmental institutions, so ABA Colombia right now must confront the task of continuing the project by seeking strategic alliances to permit its
financial viability.
Additionally, ABA Colombia assumed the challenge of being certified as a non-governmental academic organization by the mayoralty of Bogotá (Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá). The objective of this certification is to obtain resources and participate in a network with shared social interests and projects. This process involved the assessment of ABA Colombia as an organization, and diverse projects oriented to its management improvement. We are completely sure about the benefits of this process because it will further enhance the development of ABA Colombia, and because ABA Colombia is a permanent source of consultation by the mass media and the community about diverse psychosocial issues.
Finally, ABA Colombia continues with the development of its Web page as an instrument of education; again, it was the host of the B. F. Skinner’s virtual forum. Right now it functions as a great disseminator of behavior analysis through the Hispanic-language world. It is important to mention that this is not an easy task because the basic literature of B. F. Skinner is not available in Spanish. This deficiency definitely is a short term limitation for the maintenance and development of behavior analysis in the Hispanic world. ABA Colombia makes a call of attention to the behavior analytic community for jointed actions oriented to the Spanish re-edition of the B. F. Skinner’s works.
http://www.abacolombia.org.co/postnuke/index.
It is evident that ABA Colombia’s labor is non stopping and continues to develop behavior analysis in our region.