I heard about this project from a blogger - White African and have been wondering why the view point seems to be rural and not developmental. Am just asking, or maybe I am getting it all wrong. There is the need for such (Web 2.0) projects in Africa and it is both nice and encouraging […]

Hello Christian,
Many of your questions seem to be based on the premise that “web2.0″ is a single, identifiable phenomenon. In fact, it is many different things, though they all share some common features e.g. user-generated content.
With that caution in mind, please find below some brief answers to your questions:
Christian Kreutz (CK): What are the […]

I really like the dropping knowledge initiative and think that through questions a lot can be expressed. The basic idea behind Dropping knowledge is that only by posing the right questions can a global conversation be started which can change the world to the better.
That’s why I want to start here with some questions, […]

Hey Folks. Here are some interesting information and discussions that are going on in the English web2fordev Dgroup which should not be held back from the broader audience. Have some insides into web 2.0 and low bandwidth! Cheers Anja.
Steve Cisler:
I’m running an online project called KnowledeX whose members include social entrepreneurs around the world. It […]

Recently I met Toni Eliasz from Ungana-Afrika in Pretoria. We discussed over web2.0 in the context of development. His thoughts were interesting on that of the potential and challenges of the collaborative web, given his experiences in South Africa and the region. Ungana is a NGO which devotes its work to find solutions for […]

As part of a research conducted by GINKS (www.ginks.org) in Ghana, a web-based tool (Ekumfi Atakwaa Information Kiosk) was developed to stream videos on Agricultural practices online for women farmers in a small community in the Central Region of Ghana called Ekumfi Atakwaa. These women have very little or no formal education, and are mostly […]

On June 5 and 6, Euforic and CONCORD, two European networks for NGOs, organised a conference about ‘Communicating European Development Efforts’, in Brussels. The conference experimented with a weblog, as the central online space where information can be found. Several blogposts are written about the sessions, including short video clips, and photos and the presentations […]

This has been some of the main questions on the minds of many internet users. The issues of whether Web 2.0 is a new development or a reparkaged set of already existing tools is not relevant to many people in the catagory if “the world’s poor”. To these people, the most important thing is whether […]

Net2Con: Surfing the rolling cloud of connectivity: ICT and the developing world
Partha Sarker has inspriring thoughts in his presentation about web2.0 for development:
Does web 2.0 is completely irrelevant to the majority of the world ? No! Both have common underlying principles- sharing, collaboration, harnessing collective intelligence, peer to peer communication etc..
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I use a personalized Google homepage (iGoogle) which has a lot of web 2.0 elements in it and which has made my “information seeking” challenges a lot easier!
It is very easy to set up, no technical knowledge needed at all, and the result is a page filled with new resources coming right to me, instead […]

I was curious when an article titled Web 2.0 can benefit the world’s poor appeared on Scidev.net. The authors Waleed al-Shobakky and Jack Imsdahl see in new web applications, such as Google docs, a great potential for developing countries. They write, “Web 2.0 can help these students create documents, track their families’ or villages’ business […]