Charles Dhewla made a comment which raised a great discussion on dgroups.  It expands how web2.0 might even widen the gap of ICT for development. It also highlights how challenges such as connectivity, electricity or education limit very much the use of web2.0. Here are some interesting quotes from the discussion. The full contributions […]

L’institut Panos Afrique de l’Ouest (IPAO) qui travaille depuis longtemps avec les communautés de journalistes en Afrique de l’Ouest va sponsoriser la présence de deux nouveaux journalistes pour couvrir l’évènement, en direct, pour tous ceux qui ne pourront participer physiquement à la conférence. Cette action permet à l’IPAO de poursuivre son appui au renforcement de […]

African Journalists need to embrace the new revolution of Web 2.0 tools if they are to catch up in this globalised World. Below find an interview on Web 2.0 with Matongo Maumbi a journalist from Zambia whose blog matongo.blogspot.com
Maumbi recently attended an online training focusing on Web2.0 tools organized by PenPlusBytes, the International Institute for […]

Blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarks, and the like are all great ways of collaborating, allowing all Internet users to create new Internet content. Mashups go further, they liberate web users from the role of consumers of Internet services and allow them to create new services and share them.
So what is a mashup? The Wikipedia entry […]

L’Internet constitue un outil important de recherche et de contact pour le service Questions-Réponses de l’Office béninois pour la sécurité alimentaire (ONASA) qui assure la liaison entre les producteurs et des spécialistes des questions agricoles à travers le monde.
Dans son modeste du bureau, de l’office béninois pour la sécurité alimentaire (ONASA), à Cotonou, Prosper Mandé […]

Researchers and research interests in developing countries are underrepresented in mainstream academic publishing systems. Reasons are many but publishing costs, research infrastructure financing and interest in topics are among the most apparent. Some of the consequences of this landscape are:

Difficult access to international scientific production
Invisibility of research
Underrepresentation of development topics
Invisibility of researcher
Difficult access to mainstream […]

It is quite obvious that wiki software is changing communication, since the success of wikipedia and since many organizations use wikis to collaborate and share knowledge openly. It is interesting to see how organizations in the field of internal cooperation are starting to use these new tools as well. Some examples are the United Nations […]

Not more than six weeks away from the conference, we are excited to hear interesting presentations from all around the world and discuss web2.0 in the context of development. Here is some background information about the process so far.
By the end, 130 proposals were submitted, of which 40 were accepted to be presented. This number […]

The United Nations are organizing a web4dev conference in Nairobi from 28 to 30 of November.
Since its inception at a conference organized by the World Bank in 2003, the Web for Development meetings are now well established as a forum for the web community of UN agencies, and international development civil society organizations interested in […]

The Web2ForDev Conference is not the only venue this autumn where people gather to discuss and experience new web tools for development. From 9 -11 September 2007 the Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) will take place in Grahamstown, South Africa. It will run parallel to the Highway for Africa conference 2007.
The DCI is a gathering […]

Nous avons récemment eu une discussion sur ce thème. Internet - et ce n’est pas une nouveauté dans un monde globalisé - est avant tout un outil unilingue. L’anglais s’impose partout sans partage. Peut-on croire que les outils Web2 vont promouvoir de nouvelles voix?
J’aimerais beaucoup entendre sur la question des outils web2 et de leur […]

Les nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication allument et animent la télévision au Burkina Faso. TV Wagues veut faire éclore l’aube de l’Afrique battante, souriante, innovante sur le Net…
«Bienvenue sur TV Wagues. Regardez nos vidéos et nos photos et proposez nous les vôtres, Bonne visite». C’est l’annonce qui accueille «l’interneto-télé-spectateurs» sur www.wagues.org.
TV wagues […]

In May, CTA launched a call for candidates to African journalists who were interested in participating in the conference Web2forDev 2007. The idea was to finance the participation of three journalists from ACP countries who would ensure the media coverage of the conference. The following three journalists have been selected: Ramata Soré (Burkina Faso), Brenda […]

Durant le mois de Mai, le CTA a lancé un appel à candidature destiné aux journalistes africains désirant participer à la conférence Web2forDev 2007. L’idée de cet appel était de financer 3 journalistes venant d’un pays ACP pour assurer la couverture médiatique de la conférence. A l’issue de la sélection, 3 journalistes ont été retenus […]