Report back - Anti Social-Computing: Indigenous language, Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Video 
A presentation by Tim Kulchyski and Jon Corbett 
This was a fascinating presentation about a project initiated by the Hul’q’umi’num’ Treaty group in Canada. Like Kado Muir’s accounts of the Ngalia people in Australia, this is another inspiring example of how First Nations […]

Les défis liés aux objectifs du partage de connaissances varient et dépendent selon les zones géographiques dont on est originaire et dans lesquelles on intervient. Quatre panélistes, aux vues de leurs expériences et actions sur le terrain du développement, ont partagé leurs appréciations aux cours de cette première journée de conférence. 
«Là, d’où je viens, nous faisons face […]

«Nous devons,  comme individus et comme réseaux, nous approprier le Web participatif. Nous devons confronter le fait qu’il peut créer de nouvelles formes d’exclusion, et que le manque d’accès à l’infrastructure demeure une barrière énorme dans les pays en voie de développement» a affirmé la  directrice exécutive de l’Association for  progressive communications (APC), Anriette Esterhuysen […]

Report back on: Agric Market Information Systems 2.0: Making it private, profitable and peer2peer – a presentation by Mark Davies, Tradenet.biz
 ‘Why source your maize from many small local producers in Africa, when with just one phone call it can all be shipped from Argentina?’ 
OK: I’ve paraphrased Mark Davies here. But I think it sums up […]

Open Society Foundation of Southern (OSISA) has been involved in Information Communication Technologies for development.  The foundation has recently played a role in supporting the first Digital Citizen Indaba on blogging prior Highway Africa conference in Grahamstown, South Africa. Programme Manager, Ms Thandi Mbvundula shares some of the challenges and opportunities of Web 2.0 in […]

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) is an innovative interagency partnership that fosters increased cooperation and coordination on forests in response to an invitation issued in the resolution of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) that established the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF).
Juha Hautakangas a Systems Analyst said the mission […]

Participatory Web for Development is circling the point in a spiral formation of Web 2fordev. This was noted in a key note address delivered by Association for Progressive Communications (APC) Anriette Esterhuysen, Executive Director at the opening of the conference on Web2fordev at the Food Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome, Italy which started today and […]

Participants discuss what they learnt on Day Zero at the Web2.0fordev conference and what they where would take home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn8Nhvgy8_c

(cross posting from internet.artizans blog)
Shaking the hype out of Web 2.0
A big shout out to the organisers of the Web2forDev conference in Rome. They’re shaking the hype out of web 2.0 and wrestling it in to relevance for the world’s poorest and most marginalised.
Connectivity, Innovation, Censorship
If I’d had a chance to contribute to the conference, […]

Hot Group in association with South Africa’s Agriculture Research Council is currently producing farm management tools that help rural farmers to manage their farm activities. They have integrated Information Commutation Technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phones, websites to manage livestock and irrigation systems on a daily basis. The aim of the project is to capacity […]

Interview: Christian Kreutz

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Interview Nynke Kruiderink

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There is so much data on Internet that for most of us it is a headache to find the right information. We’ve been using Google to search for key words in the last couple of years but I was told at the Web2fordev that it was not an up to date […]

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We had an interesting presentation on Tuesday afternoon on the use of a Semantic Wiki Tool to Build a Repository of Reusable Information Objects in Agricultural Education and Extension by Prof. Chatterjee.
He stated that the mass of unstructured information in the field of agriculture is huge and that content is still dispersed without any […]

Over the past decade, the ‘digital divide’ has been shrinking as the number of fixed phone lines, mobile subscribers and Internet users grow. It is becoming less a gap in access to ICT as a difference in quality and capacity. However, the International Telecommunication Union estimates that approximately one billion people worldwide still lack connection […]

This afternoon, Kado Muir, Guy Singleton and Jon Corbett presented ‘Outback Movement for Cultural Survival Using Web 2.0: An Australian Aboriginal Case Study’. This presentation was really invigorating. I came in a minute or so late, only to hear Kado Muir joke, ‘We are quite recently out of the Bush – and we’re now trying […]

Interview with Jon Corbett, Steering Committee, Web2forDev Conference, Rome, 25th September 2007
On my second day at the conference venue here at FAO in Rome, I feel that I am delving a little deeper into how – and whether – Web 2.0 is actually participatory. But I still want to investigate this further: exactly how are […]

Interview with Dirk Koehler, Head of Publishing Department World Bank
Let me quote to introduce our topic a blogger from the Web2forDev community:” The real, revolutionary change from “Web 1.0″ to “2.0″ is the direction of communication. In the “old web” publisher was pushing content down to the audience, treating the audience as consumers, faceless statistics […]

Interview with Christian Kreutz, GTZ, Web2forDev Conference, Rome 24th February 2007.  
Monday was a preliminary workshop day, prior to the start of the main Web2forDev conference in Rome. Participants were introduced to various web-based applications that are part of the Web 2.0. One of the presentations was about blogging. 
Presenter Christian Kreutz, of GTZ in Germany, […]

First feedback from the pre-Conference Web2.0TasterDay
Short comments posted to the the ‘Democracy Wall’ by participants of the Web2.0 Taster Day on Monday September 24th, 2007.
I learned….
… a lot, thank you
… that I should have come earlier
… use of Web2 tools
… sure to expand my curriculum on Web tec. Great lessons, great opportunities
… Web 2 tools […]

Prince Deh from GINKS presented Vlogging on Day zero about “Publishing Tools: digital storytelling Video and Audio blogs for development”.
GINKS is a network of individuals and organisations that seeks to promote ICT4D in Ghana and was established in 2003 with the collaboration of the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD).
http://www.youtube.com/v/k3t2Zwx_Dc0

I asked people about what they learnt on Day Zero Web2.0fordev conference and what they where going to take home.
Prince Deh GINKS Assistant Network Coordinator, Ghana
I am planning to host local language videos and translate the text in English because I realise that many people get my stories and information from the blog. Video blogging […]

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SANGOnet is an Information Communication Technology NGO in Southern Africa that promotes and support ICT projects in the region. They are currently setting up Citizen Journalism project with the aim of promoting the use of Web 2.0 by rural communities on issues of development. SANGOnet ICT Services Manager, Matthew de Gale […]

This morning Prof. Jayanta Chatterjee presented Kinsanblog (www.dealindia.org), an amazing virtual space where farmers can ask questions to tackle the agricultural constraints they face and get recorded answers in their local language. 
Two of the main barriers to sharing knowledge across farming communities are language and literacy. “Farmers are not literate and if they are, they’re […]

Amit Dasgupta is one of the few presenters at the Web2forDev Conference with a private sector background. Currently he is working for IBM India as General Manager in the Global Business Services division. At Tuesday, the first day of the Conference, Amit Dasgupta will do a presentation on practical examples of how knowledge sharing and […]

Kevin Painting, one of the organizers from CTA, talks about their work around web2.0 technologies and the idea for the conference.

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By Brenda Zulu
Africa Interactive, the publishers of Africa News www.africanews.com a world wide interactive multimedia platform focused on Africa are piloting a new project called “Voice of Africa” where journalists use mobile phones to send news video clips to report news.
Elles Van Gelder Editor in Chief of Africa News said at the Digital […]