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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet[…] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z […]
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetVery good post. I think poverty in western countries today is very different to poverty 100 years ago - but our governments still view it as the same. Most western countries have addressed the physical aspects of poverty (even though it’s often not very effective). Starvation, disease, unclean water, and lack of access to education do not exist nearly on the same scale as a century ago. But now problems are more psychological. People are often born into welfare, do not want to pursue education, do not want to work, and heavily abuse substances. Lack of ambition, self-worth, and general happiness are endemic. I think it is crucial to place more emphasis on the mental and psychological causes of poverty, and provide more funding accordingly.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetOne reason I cannot wait to get my iphone 3G with GPS to contribute to Open Street Map. (http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=7543)
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetChristian .. important question to be asking, even more important question to be doing! Hope to see much more free and open (geo) data efforts in 2009!
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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet[…] Georg Neumann While we maybe shouldn’t be talking so much about web2.0 and social media, I wanted to share with you a couple of interesting posts that came up in a couple of fora I am […]
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet[…] öffentlich gemacht wird und nicht nur in Fachzirkeln kursiert. Schon vor einiger Zeit bemängelte Christian Kreutz , dass es keine öffentlichen Wissenssammlungen von Nonprofits im Rahmen von Wikis gibt. Am […]
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetGreat post (yet again!), Christian. I completely agree that we need to take much of the focus off the tools (a.k.a. the web 2.0 hype machine) and put it back on the approach- i.e., what are people and organizations doing nowadays to make communication more efficient and information more accessible to those who need it? I think many of the innovative applications of such approaches do involve some web 2.0 functionality, but at the end of the day the success lies not in the tool itself but how it is implemented. If you are able to showcase success stories of organizations meeting their communications goals in new and innovative ways, then I think you’ll capture quite a lot of attention right there.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHi Carl,
yes fundraising might be also another interesting option. Whiteafrican just wrote another interesting post on mobile app in Africa: http://whiteafrican.com/2008/12/16/building-mobile-apps-for-africa/
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetJust speculating, but might there be a link between mobile banking and fundraising for social activism in future? If campaigns and CSOs need resources to grow maybe micro donations by mobile (or perhaps just airtime credits) could be an innovative and legitimate way of fundraising for this? I thought the four trends you predicted were really interesting, and the one on creativity in adapting software for contextual applications was really inspiring.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI think this “open source” model ist our futere. Not only in case of researching new products or music. i think open source should be the way we handel global problems. It should not get stuck in the internet. Open source for me is : giving every one a voice and the chance to get noticed. Politics, econimics, religion, open source is the free mind and free will to work together.
thought i have to read the book one more time to understand everything right
greetings
Maik
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI think this “open source” model ist our futere. Not only in case of researching new products or music. i think open source should be the way we handel global problems. It should not get stuck in the internet. Open source for me is : giving every one a voice and the chance to get noticed. Politics, econimics, religion, open source is the free mind and free will to work together.
thought i have to read the book one more time to understand everything right
greetings
Maik
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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAfrica is moving in a right directions when it cocerns receiving new technologies. It seems the continent can welcome any technology easier than other continents.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHi Christian, I agree that the usual web2.0 presentation may not do much. I used my own life story of changing tool use http://www.slideshare.net/joitske/leren-en-samenwerken-via-web20met-presentation/ that works well to make it clear that there is another way of working/learning. However, people notice this practice is far from their own…
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweetso glad i found you on twitter. loved the video that you posted here.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHi Christian, as you state as well: it takes time to let people organise their work and information in new ways, let alone engage in different types of collaboration processes. Talking about tools is hard if it doesn’t resonate with the “style and culture” how people communicate. That’s why geek-driven “threaded discussions” still dominate the web…
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHi Georg,
yes I agree with you. There are not enough examples of impact or you can take Richard Dennison perspective:
How do you measure the ROI of social software??
Unfortunately, this is the most common question I get asked. I say unfortunately because, in my view, the obsession with this question reflects the sorry state of business and government today - namely, if you can’t count it, it doesn’t count.
http://richarddennison.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/how-do-you-measure-the-roi-of-social-software/
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI can very much agree with you that we have to focus on the basic idea, and not get too much into technicalities.
But I think this is also related to another critical issue when discussing web2.0 tools and social media. Often discussions are simple driven by the believe that participation and engagement in decision making and production is the better approach. It would be helpful to have more impact analysis, helping to convince that this approach is not only the fairer approach, but also the one producing better outcomes.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet[…] email as a challenge for knowledge management triggers quite interesting dicussions. Then I explained the example of Sun Microsystem and the one I did internally myself with GTZ. I ended with an older study around the use of Wikis […]
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet[…] So is the case of the example of the invention of the desktop and folder system – the PC desktop was developed in the seventies portraying a normal desk with papers and folders on it. The problem about it is that in the digital space, as tagging proves, relevance and links are in a three dimensional space and go potentially in every direction. So we still use our computer in a very primitive way one could say. I blogged about the connection to hierarchy here. […]
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHugh, I was one of the two developers who worked on Gombu mobile, and I was not paid by Manuel Reyna, who was Tamara’s contact.
So legally, the code is mine, and I will be selling it to another company soon.Thank you:
Pablo
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI am here at a forum newcomer. Until I read and deal with the forum.
Let’s learn!
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet[…] einer Beschreibung eines begeisterten BarCamp-Besuchers hieß es einmal, Unkonferenzen seien eine Philisophie. Das sehen wohl nicht wenige […]
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet[…] suggerito in questo articolo, l’obiettivo dell’impresa, parlando di web2.0, è quello di condividere le […]
