AdoptCLOUD

The  Meet, the Cloud   post series is back! Welcome to the collection of posts featuring the Italian partners' voice: constitution, members, goals, collaborations and successful activities. Today we present Comitato Nazionale per il Diritto alle Origini Biologiche (National Commitee for Right tyo Biological Origins). The Committee was formed on June 5, 2009, in Naples. The aim was to respond to the numerous requests of those adopted children not recognized at birth and ask to be represented so that the right to know their own origins. As a spontaneous movement, before being officially registered, it has carried out frequent discussions and in-depth preparatory meetings, preparatory to the formulation of a law proposal to modify Article 28 of Law 184/1983 that specifically prevents a child from the right to access their sealed birth records. All while dealing with associations of adoptive children and parents present on the national territory. The Committee has set two lines ...

When  we shared this awesome   post ,  it was November.  At last, the time has come:  The Italian Manifesto for all Italian Adoptees is here! In 2020 Angela Tucker , the leading Adoptee Voice in the USA launched her Adoptee Manifesto .   During the year I've reached out and asked for her collaboration to realize the first AdoptCloud Project: a translated version of the #adopteemanifesto in Italian . Il manifesto di un* adottiv* Ph. credit: Angela Tucker, Design: Alissa Edel (Translation in Italian by Alessia Petrolito) Open and agender, the manifests reunite adoptee's legitimate rights and desires at once. Beyond grouping, this is about building inner peace and a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves. As adoptees, we can gain a voice and a community. Angela's work does it for the USA, and I hope that this will help more & more Italian adoptees to gain awareness -  we are not just a story, our story, but we are who we are! I'm de...

Welcome to the Meet the Cloud post series - a collection of posts featuring the Italian partners’ voice: constitution, members, goals, collaborations and successful activities. Today we present Blogger and Live-streamer Aroti Shrimati Bertelli , 35 years old, adopted from India at nine years old. "Hello, I'm Aroti. To my name was added a vowel, an  "O", and I have many birth dates on my records. That added "O" was too much for my life and resulted in my journey back to my origins in 2016. The journey was extremely fundamental to understand who I am, get in touch with my fragmented identity, make it tangible, free my roots from too much "Italianness", and rediscover their Indianness. Retracing the path, the places that - because of others and their haste brought me here, in Italy - I had to leave unknowingly, without saying goodbye. I took back that time, that inner space to make order inside my past, messed up by others. TAKE TIME TO DECONSTRUC...

Welcome to the Meet the cloud post series - a collection of posts featuring the Italian partners’ voice : constitution, members, goals, collaborations and successful activities. Today we present Italian adoption cloudpartner - F.A. e G.N. The Association F.A. e G.N. stands for Figli Adottivi e Genitori Naturali (Adoptive Children and Natural Parents) it is the first Association in Italy of adult adopted, founded by Luisa Di Fiore, John Pierre Campitelli, and Monica Rossi . It is based in Rome but is located throughout the country and is in contact with similar associations in other parts of the world (Greece / France / United States / Holland / Spain / South Korea and India). Born as a natural evolution of the virtual community dedicated to this theme, FAeGN was founded in June 2000. Today, the Association can count over 3,000 associates and is engaged to: - Offer assistance , moral and informational help, to birth parents whose child has been taken away and given up for adoption....

If you haven't heard about it yet, you should definitely check out the fantastic project  Ethical Storytelling ? Angela Tucker ( The Adopted Life Blog ) was one of the first adoptees to sign for it! Ethical Storytelling   is a community of non-profit and practitioners & storytellers learning how to integrate a new standard of storytelling.  To know more about this project and to learn how to tell stories with an ethic  visit the  website . As adoptees, we can benefit from this kind of approach, our stories deserve to be  truthfully and dignifiedly  told - spread the word. SIGN THE PLEDGE (available in  Ita  and  Eng ) Arp / Speaks AtCLoud   -  Alessia Petrolito

What is diversity? What is inclusion? Should not be pluralism the next step...? When one cannot team up at least should cooperate! Instead of been let opinions separate us, let's try to 'win' by building a collective good - Let's help ourselves and others to create new contents, meanings and collaboration! Try to think about Adoption from the game point of view, the theory - as in and picture - says we have pawns and multiple colours... we are players, active and in control; we can group and divide - but can anybody say there no space for anyone?   Game is about fun cooperation and pluralism ( https://bit.ly/2TGWr4t ) Arp / Speaks AtCLoud  -  Alessia Petrolito  / More on  ResearchGate  

The Adoption Cloud   You may have heard me talking about the Adoption Cloud ... It is a visionary project let me tell you more about it. Project Objective: The Adoption Cloud - Project  is a portion of this blog,  AdoptCloud , where I am going to feature Italian social personalities; adoptees who are working - disseminating communicating - on adoption throughout social media. This project also features well-known Adoptees' International Networks, intending to encourage, and possibly foster interactions with/within the various Italian adoptees' communities and personalities.  Project Goals: 1) To look at adoption on social media and virtual communities formation in Italy.  2) To overcome the language barrier . 3) To form and display a  comprehensive  Italian main-stream  featuring all the active networks and personalities  - cultural disseminators, activists, and service providers . 4) To connect  and foster collaborations wi th other...

Inspire - modified pic from Phxere ( https://bit.ly/2zqDbBk ) "I'd really love to hear from more Italian adoptees, and  I really want to encourage  Italian adoptees to kind of  come-out of the shadow; and to start to think critically about [you know] what's been going-on on a massive sky like. You know, I worked very close with americans adoptees for the past five years; and the reason why I did that was it's because I knew that from a global prespective at top receiving countries there are America (US), Italy and France. If we don't have those three lots of adoptees on a global sky speaking at and being visible... That's where we need to get to in terms of  the short-term five years goal is encoraging more adoptees [...]" The quote was taken from the video interview of Lynelle Long , blogger and critical thinker in intercountry adoption - Founder of InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV) which began in Australia (1998) and now the largest platfor...

from Pxhere  ( https://bit.ly/2LX9H0r ) In my previous piece, ( Adoption Communities and the Social Media Pyramid ), I was telling you about  Virtual Adoption Communities  and their formation, constitution and position, in the social media pyramid established by Prof. Randy Hlavac [1].  I n the following paragraphs, we are going to look at t he whole  IAC  -  Italian Adoption Community -  the   " Italian Case"  - based on my personal experience.    As in Hlavac's, the IAC's social media pyramid has 6 levels  that can be analysed through function, population and focus .  Among the IAC , Facebook is the most popular medium; but it's not the only one. In  my interpretation, here is the breakdown by level: the first level belongs to " Social Networks"  / Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Quora and  (rarely) Twitter the second level consists of " News Aggregators"  / National Newspap...