Post by Olivier Berthoud:
Some brief comments to the conference:
Here are the 3 most relevant case studies for me. Potential scaling up and mainstreaming are my major concern about these new technologies.

Oxfam is using any new Web2.0 technology to mobilize mid-class professional and youth in wealthy countries (Myspace, Facebook, what ever) and it seams to works […]

Dear friends,
Recently aware of your iniciative and eager to contribute to a better understanding of the challenges and posibilities of the so called Knowledge Society, I would like to let you know of two projects who conceive the use of blogin to generate networks of participative conscience on different issues of social participation in which […]

Crossposted from crisscrossed.net
Thanks to Tom L. and Peter Ballantayne for their very interesting remarks on my post “an overview of blogging for development.” Peter argued that there are a lot different blogs in development aid or international cooperation out there and “must be loads more, just not very visible.” And Tom had a great point:
What’s […]

Crossposted: Euforic Blog
3 October. OneWorld, the international network for global justice, is launching a social networking space for climate change that will act as a ‘Climate Facebook’ to inspire people to take action to protect the planet.
“OneClimate.net is a mass collaboration space dedicated to global citizens gathering and distributing solutions […]

Interview de Pete Cranston, Consultant en TIC et Développement
« Le Web2 et les communautés de pêche » fait partie de nombreux sujets débattus lors des « Open space » de la conférence Web2fordev. Pete Cranston, l’initiateur de cette discussion se prononce dans cet entretien sur l’impact que les outils du Web participatif pourraient avoir sur […]

I asked people what is the way forward and what they were going to take back home.
Wycliffe Ochieng Arua- Agriculture Commodity Exchange Kenya
It has been a great conference and the way forward especially if there is a way we could work together to blend the existing web 2 tools that are used in
Africa putting […]

Interview with Kuami Ahiabenu (Ghana) about Empowering journalists with online tools: Making a case for online training
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlQfGOe-PY4

Ethan Zuckerman gave the keynote speech on the final day of the Web2forDev conference, held at FAO in Rome, 24th-27th September 2007. Ethan is the co-founder of Global Voices, the world’s largest aggregator of media in the South. The Global Voices Forum brings together bloggers from around the globe.
Here are some quotes from that […]

Rural communities in Africa can have their stories shared with the larger audience using video blogging which is a Web 2.0 application to amplify the voices of the grassroots in the future.
Sharing his experience as a Vlogger, Prince Deh said he had been creating videos and posting them on a blog and hence received feed […]

Online learning is here to stay and the increasingly availability of Web 2.0 tools will making e-learning experience more rewarding though some challenges exist.
Making a case for online training of Journalists in Africa, Kwami Ahiabenu II from the International Institute for ICT Journalism (PenPlusBytes) observed that online training was going to become dominant means of […]

It’s going to rain in Dakar on Tuesday 20 May 2070. How do I know? Michael Saunby told me, at his presentation of Climate Change Mashups this afternoon in the Lebanon Room. But why do we need to know today whether or not it’s going to rain in Dakar on 20 May 2070? “It might […]

“We need to come up with a description of what is understood by Web2forDev.” This comment was placed on the Democracy Board – an area outside the main Red Room where conference goers can write suggestions, make comments, share feelings and contribute ideas. The person who posted this particular suggestion was only putting on paper […]

At the Web2forDev conference, everyone has been saying that it’s not about the technology – it’s about the people. It’s about what people can do with the technology – and what ‘mash-ups’ of tools and approaches are appropriate and really working.
I came to this conference to find people who are really doing participatory web […]

Scholar literature is underrepresented on Internet and Southern researchers’ content remains invisible. There is a critical mass of “grey” knowledge which could highly benefit from the web2 opportunities. Ismael Peña-López from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) expressed the importance of facilitating access to researchers’ work in a provocative manner “If you exist on Internet, […]

Focuss.eu provides a high quality search engine for practitioners, researchers and students in the area of global development studies. Other than generic search engines, like Google and Yahoo, focuss.eu indexes a specific choice of electronic resources, selected by librarians, researchers and practitioners working in participating institutions. The current focuss.eu initiative is based on the personal […]

Dans un monde rural dominé par l’oralité, «les populations très souvent analphabètes ont besoin de voir et d’entendre pour une meilleure interactivité  et la vidéo ne serait pas pour gêner cela. On peut donc passer plus facilement des messages vidéos pour faire de la sensibilisation et de la formation.» soutient Sylvestre Ouédraogo responsable de l’Association […]

Mark Davies of www.tradenet.biz talk about this website
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhCtRUAHFNA

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