Il Tempo: Comunicato Stampa: La Camera di Commercio di Cosenza lancia “Le Buone Idee Lavorano Qui”

L'iniziativa nasce dalla consapevolezza che il lavoro quotidiano dell'Ente è il risultato di impegno collettivo, collaborazione e creatività diffusa. In questo contesto, anche il contributo di chi opera “dietro le quinte” rappresenta un elemento essenziale per il buon funzionamento dell'organizzazione, pur non essendo sempre immediatamente visibile.
Il progetto si pone l'obiettivo di d
Attraverso una piattaforma dedicata, i dipendenti possono proporre la propria esperienza o segnalare quella di un collega, contribuendo a costruire un patrimonio comune di conoscenze e soluzioni. Le iniziative vengono poi oggetto di una votazione interna, anonima e motivata, che consente di individuare e valorizzare i contributi più significativi.
L'andamento delle votazioni è consultabile in ogni momento, in un'ottica di piena trasparenza, mentre le esperienze più apprezzate vengono condivise periodicamente all'interno di momenti dedicati, con l'obiettivo di stimolare la replicabilità delle pratiche positive e il miglioramento continuo dei processi.
Il riconoscimento previsto dal progetto ha natura esclusivamente simbolica e culturale: rappresenta uno strumento di valorizzazione interna coerente con i principi di collaborazione, inclusività e partecipazione che caratterizzano l'azione dell'Ente.
Con “Le Buone Idee Lavorano Qui”, la Camera di Commercio di Cosenza conferma il proprio orientamento verso modelli organizzativi innovativi, capaci di mettere al centro le persone e di trasformare le idee in valore condiviso per tutta la comunità lavorativa.
La responsabilità editoriale e i contenuti di cui al presente comunicato stampa sono a cura di Camera di commercio di Cosenza

Press Release: The Chamber of Commerce of Cosenza launches “Good Ideas Work Here”

This initiative stems from the awareness that the daily work of the Institution is the result of collective commitment, collaboration, and widespread creativity. In this context, the contribution of those who operate “behind the scenes” also represents an essential element for the proper functioning of the organization, even if it is not always immediately visible.

The project aims to… (The text is incomplete here)

Through a dedicated platform, employees can propose their own experience or report on that of a colleague, contributing to the construction of a common heritage of knowledge and solutions. The initiatives are then subject to an internal vote, anonymous and motivated, which allows for the identification and valorization of the most significant contributions.

The results of the votes are available for consultation at all times, in a spirit of full transparency, while the most appreciated experiences are shared periodically within dedicated moments, with the aim of stimulating the replicability of positive practices and continuous improvement of processes.

The recognition provided by the project has an exclusively symbolic and cultural nature: it represents a tool for internal valorization consistent with the principles of collaboration, inclusivity, and participation that characterize the action of the Institution.

With “Good Ideas Work Here,” the Chamber of Commerce of Cosenza confirms its orientation towards innovative organizational models, capable of putting people at the center and transforming ideas into shared value for the entire workforce.

The editorial responsibility and the content of this press release are the responsibility of the Chamber of Commerce of Cosenza.

#GoodIdeasWorkHere #Institution

https://www.iltempo.it/press-release/2026/04/10/news/comunicato-stampa-la-camera-di-commercio-di-cosenza-lancia-le-buone-idee-lavorano-qui--47216186/

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Révolution Permanente Brest soutient pleinement le combat des six allocataires du RSA qui, avec la CGT, assignent en justice le président du conseil départemental du Finistère, Maël de Calan, au motif de « harcèlement moral institutionnel ».

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The Funeral of Handwriting: What We Lose When the Hand Stops Moving

In 2010, the Common Core State Standards Initiative dropped cursive instruction from its recommended curriculum. The decision arrived without ceremony. No public debate, no period of mourning, no recognition that a cognitive practice stretching back to the Sumerian reed stylus was being retired from American education. Forty-one states adopted the standards. Cursive, along with its slower sibling manuscript handwriting, began its institutional death.

The loss registers first in the brain. Karin James, a cognitive neuroscientist at Indiana University, published research in 2012 demonstrating that children who practiced letter formation by hand showed activation in the left fusiform gyrus, the reading circuit of the brain, that children who typed the same letters did not. The hand, moving across the page, recruits neural networks that the keyboard bypasses entirely. Virginia Berninger’s longitudinal studies at the University of Washington reinforced this finding: children who wrote by hand produced more words, generated ideas faster, and composed more complete sentences than those who typed. The hand thinks its way through language.

The argument here has nothing to do with sentiment about fountain pens and wax seals. The motor act of forming letters creates a proprioceptive feedback loop that anchors memory and comprehension in ways that tapping a glass screen cannot replicate. A 2014 study by Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer, published in Psychological Science under the title “The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard,” showed that students who took longhand notes outperformed laptop note-takers on conceptual questions, even when the laptop group had more recorded material. Speed worked against understanding. The hand’s slowness forced selection, compression, and interpretation in real time, while the keyboard encouraged transcription without cognition.

The cultural history tells a parallel story. In the nineteenth century, Platt Rogers Spencer developed the Spencerian method, a system of penmanship that became the standard American hand from the 1850s through the turn of the century. Spencer did not conceive of handwriting as a mechanical skill. He understood it as moral training. The discipline of forming graceful, consistent letterforms was a discipline of the self: patience, attention, proportion, restraint. When Austin Norman Palmer replaced Spencerian script with his own method around 1900, he stripped the moral philosophy but kept the premise that handwriting shaped character. Both men would have found the idea of abandoning handwriting instruction incomprehensible, the equivalent of canceling arithmetic because calculators exist.

The legal and institutional architecture of Western civilization was built on the handwritten document. Wills, contracts, treaties, confessions, correspondence, medical notes, field observations, laboratory records: for centuries, the handwritten text carried an evidentiary weight that print could not match. A signature functions as an assertion of identity and intention, a mark that forensic examiners can trace to a single human hand. The typed name carries no such specificity. As handwriting recedes from common practice, an entire system of authentication rooted in the irreducible individuality of the body recedes with it.

The counterargument writes itself: nobody needs cursive to function in a digital economy. Keyboards are faster. Screens are ubiquitous. Communication has moved to platforms where handwriting has no utility. All of this is true, and all of it misses the point. Efficiency has never been the right lens for evaluating a cognitive practice. Running is less efficient than driving; we do not therefore recommend the abolition of legs.

What is happening is a form of cognitive amputation performed in the name of convenience. The connection between the hand and the brain’s language centers, between the body and the act of composition, between the slow, resistant, physical work of making meaning and the frictionless digital surface that asks nothing of us but a tap, is being severed by policy and indifference. The children who will never learn cursive will still read and write. They will compose texts and emails and reports. What they will lack is the knowledge of what they are missing, which is the particular cruelty of amputation: the phantom limb aches, but only if you once had the limb.

A growing number of American states have passed legislation mandating cursive instruction, swimming against the Common Core current. Louisiana’s Act 300 in 2016 was among the earliest. These legislative acts respond to accumulating evidence that the hand’s retirement has consequences the brain cannot absorb on its own. The neuroscience keeps arriving, and it keeps pointing in the same direction: the hand and the mind developed together, over millennia, and separating them carries costs that no efficiency calculation can account for.

The funeral of handwriting is the funeral of a particular kind of thinking: slow, embodied, resistant to acceleration, irreducibly personal. Every word written by hand carries the tremor of the individual body, the pressure of the moment, the angle of fatigue or excitement or care. The keyboard produces uniform characters regardless of who strikes the keys. Uniformity offers comfort, and the comfort has a price measured in capacities we can no longer name.

#control #pandemic #institution

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/03/22/7-the-institutional-snap-back-reasserting-control/