crisscrossedcrisscrossedThis blog aims to explore and develop social changes through communication. It focuses on tools such as internet, it's impact, potential and challenges it faces within different cultures around the world. It also approaches network learning and highl 
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From A-Z to Organization2.0: C - Cafeteria ? catching the informal
2008-06-05 11:27:00 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 Let’s face it, when you deal with knowledge sharing in an organization, it becomes quickly obvious that most knowledge is shared personally, face-to-face over the telephone or in the cafeteria. ... More About: Cafeteria
Digital divide: Connectivity and the different dimensions of literacy
2008-06-02 14:27:00 During last days I have been going trough different ICT4D papers, and then again I have been astonished to see that their focus was mainly limited to the issue of access although access to a computer or Internet is just a first step and does not mean you can fully engage in the web. Some ... More About: Literacy , Digital , Connectivity , Digital divide
A - Adaptation: From A-Z ? the long trail of web2.0 in an organization
2008-05-25 15:44:00 Three years ago I started experimenting for the first time with web2.0 at my organization (GTZ). In Egypt, we implemented a blog to link different projects of GTZ. Since then, I have been taking part in several initiatives and joined many discussions with the IT, communication, knowledge management and other departments. I have learnt a ... More About: Organization , Long , Trail
Wisdom of crowd: Bottom up measuring of development results
2008-05-19 23:47:00 Some days ago, I had a talk with a colleague from another development organization about web2fordev. We were asking whether web2.0 can really make a difference in development work? We both agreed it can, but we were unsure whether the organizational culture has to change first or the external pressure will push for openness? When is ... More About: Development , Results , Wisdom , Crowd , Bottom
Complexity trap: Local vs. global knowledge in development work
2008-05-12 23:15:00 The world wide web offers a growing variety of expertise on all kinds of topics. This global knowledge, such as the scientific domain, has generic character. The expertise is important, especially to tackle all sorts of challenges, but without including the local context could be quickly useless. Often, the applied knowledge lacks an interdisciplinary ... More About: Development , Work , Global , Local , Knowledge
6 innovative grassroot mashups for transparency
2008-05-05 22:32:00 Some weeks ago I wrote a post about a new initiative by UNHCR, which promotes the use geodata mashups to provide information about refugee camps all around the world. Today, I saw another initiative by the World Bank called geo.worldbank.org: “Our work around the world.” Again, it is a nice ... More About: Transparency , Innovative , Mashups
Mobile everything: 3 new dimensions of citizen engagement
2008-04-29 00:28:00 Blogs have started a little revolution — nowadays everyone with Internet access can publish content on the web. Citizen s can articulate their perspective and exchange it within a network of blogs. The mobile phone, with its improved access to the web, gives new means for citizen engagement because one can connect from everywhere and engage ... More About: Mobile , Engagement
Collaboration for change: Reflections on the Social Innovation Camp
2008-04-17 00:17:00 A bit late I write my feedback from the Social Innovation Camp (sicamp08), which luckily had the chance to join. I first heard about it from Dan McQuillan, who is one of the initiators and also has a great blog. It was a fascinating weekend with a real kind of Barcamp atmosphere, or as David ... More About: Reflections , Change
Impressions from Re-publica and Social Innovation Camp
2008-04-14 15:18:00 The German vs. the British websphere Well, a week after attending both, the Social Innovation Camp (sicamp08) and re-publica, I finally post my reflections on these events. It was great to visit these two events, listen to numerous interesting presentations at re-publica, and grasp the contagious spirit of social innovation in London. There were interesting ... More About: Impressions
Spoil the user? Why are not always the WYSIWYG Editors the right way?
2008-04-11 23:24:00 Last week, I was at the re-publica.de conference. Often, the most interesting aspect of conferences are the side talks with other visitors. And this one was not the exception. I had a great chat with Martin Koser, an enterprise2.0 expert (with excellent bookmarks) and Andreas Gohr, the head developer of the interesting DokuWiki. ... More About: Editors , User
United Nations mashups: Visualizing world challenges
2008-04-09 00:14:00 It is quite exciting to see that the United Nations and their different branch-organizations are slowly harnessing the potential of the web in innovative ways. I have previously blogged about the idea of a huge interesting UN aggregator project and the UNDP water wiki during the last web4dv conference. To offer openly information sources and ... More About: World , Mashups
NGO2.0 is all about learning and ideas (2)
2008-04-04 02:58:00 As I have previously argued in a recent post, many NGOs have quite conventional organizing forms, facing the challenge of openness and often not founding a way to deal with open networks and a two way conversation. A key step to openness and different understanding of roles such as an organization, its members and stakeholders ... More About: Ideas , Learning
Metrics: What is the impact of social media on organizations?
2008-04-03 01:25:00 Getting social media or web2.0 into an organization is still not an easy task. The skepticism is often as high as the enthusiasm. If you can prove the benefit of social media in an organization, then you have better cards to go forward. I have been experimenting for a while with blogs and wikis in ... More About: Social , Media , Metrics , Organizations
Search the web for global development topics
2008-03-29 11:44:00 If you want to find decent information about development aid, Focuss.info is a good source to start from. Basically, it works with a customized Google search, which allows you to search only certain websites — in this case, within many websites relevant to development aid. Focuss.info, an initiative by the Overseas Development Institute and in ... More About: Search , Global , Topics
Web2.0 - potentials or obstacles for connectivity?
2008-03-25 23:29:00 The discussion about web2.0 and development is divided roughly into two groups. One argues for the potential of the social web and that finally the users shape the web and applications to their benefit. And the other side wonders what does web2.0 make for a difference in the field of ICT4D, and doubt whether the ... More About: Connectivity
NGO2.0 ? the end of the organization? (1)
2008-03-19 11:57:00 Michael Gilbert wrote an article called “The End of the Organization ?” in which he wonders how civil society organizations, such as NGOs, can continue working the way they do? Whether the organization as we know it survives or not, it is by studying the changing patterns of communication that we will discover the new ...
Is mobile development repeating ICT4D errors?
2008-03-16 15:46:00 In the mobile and development list of Dgroups, Prof. Richard Heeks wrote this message recently: There’s a notion that “m-Development ” will be more attuned to the needs and context of users than was the initial round of ICT4D projects (what we might call “ICT4D 1.0″). But I wonder if, in fact, some of the some mistakes ... More About: Mobile , Errors
Tired of PPT: Start power point karaoke
2008-03-13 00:47:00 Background Bill Ives wrote a nice post about power point karaoke — a great way to relive us from boring presentations and to laugh about the mass phenomena of non stopping slides and too many buzz words. He writes, “This trend combines two of the most boring things around, Power Point and Karaoke so maybe it ... More About: Start , Power Point
Organizations can be democratic, flat and passionate
2008-03-09 15:20:00 The web is full of thoughts and discussion around open, democratic and flat organizations. Most of this discussions and concepts are connected to web2.0, but that is not necessarily new, as Ricardo Semler proofs it in his book: The seven-day weekend. For more than twenty years, he has been experimenting with open knowledge models. ... More About: Democratic , Organizations , Flat
Contribute to the combined ICT4D news feed
2008-03-05 17:07:00 One great way for information hunting feeds, is to grasp whatever is out there on the web concerning one topic. This way, you can get news, discussions and great links right on your desktop. But what about filtering them in order to get the best out of the mass? Especially, in the Information and communication ... More About: News , Feed , Contribute
One, Two, Three: The digital order and the end of hierarchy
2008-02-29 00:15:00 Since I finished reading “Everything is Miscellaneous” by David Weinberger, I have been trying to figure out how the third order of things and information in the digital age will change things. I already wrote some pieces here on tagging and how it changes the way we structure information. But, so far, I have struggled ... More About: Digital , Order
How does social software get in an organization?
2008-02-25 08:03:00 In older days, new software and applications came to an organization via the IT department. Nowadays, it is easier for social software to reach organizations in different ways because no firewall can stop it. To keep social software and its potential for knowledge sharing behind the firewall it is a contradiction. Social software arrives ... More About: Software , Organization , Social Software
When is the collaborative mobile web coming?
2008-02-12 13:05:00 In Phnom Penh, as everywhere else, the mobile phone is a must have accessory for the youth, and when they get together, they enjoy bluetoothing; or so Thomas Wanhoff told me during my stay in Cambodia. This basically means that they share ringtones, images, videos and games through their mobile phones. The other day I read that last ... More About: Mobile , Mobile Web
Web2.0 and development studies
2008-02-04 07:54:00 In my last post I argued that the collaborative web has its implications for development aid. And yesterday I read an interesting article by Mark Thompson from the University of Cambridge titled “ICT and development studies: towards development2.0.” The article is an attempt to highlight the potentials of the web for development, its push ... More About: Studies , Development
A network of ideas - development 2.0
2008-02-01 16:49:00 [Published in the Internationale Politik magazine in December 2007.] How the participative Web 2.0 challenges development cooperation - and why this is a chance for development organizations Adyaka, a village in the heart of Uganda, needs a new trade school. None of the 4,000 inhabitants have the necessary skills to develop a business plan an the government ... More About: Ideas , Development , Network
7 concerns about the web in 2008
2008-01-21 23:41:00 Frequent readers know I am quite enthusiastic about the social web, its potentials and cultural impact. Especially when it comes to knowledge sharing and information and communication technologies for development. However, I also have concerns and see obstacles about the participative web — its development and its divide. So as a start of 2008 , I ... More About: Concerns
How Can Nonprofits Use Twitter? Should They Even Bother?
2008-01-14 23:35:00 This blog post is a contribution to the Net2Think Tank from the netsquared community. It is great community of people discussing about non-profits and technology. I can highly recommend their podcasts. When I got from Britt Bravo an email to join the discussion about above topic I was more than happy to join. How Can Nonprofits Use ... More About: Twitter
Kenyan bloggers need your support
2008-01-14 14:21:00 Most of you probably have been following the news about Kenya lately. I was there only two months ago and had the opportunity to meet some interesting bloggers. Television was fully covering and broadcasting about the election’s campaigns at that time. When the elections took place on the 27 December, the result was promising. A ... More About: Support , Bloggers
When will we be freed from the intranet?
2008-01-09 23:40:00 From a knowledge management perspective Intranet s are vital but so far inefficient. On one side, it is the only place where organizational information can be decentralized access 24/7. On the other side, the web behind the firewall is mostly top-down driven and hierarchical structured. The results are that only a tiny little fraction of social ...
Widgets: Pimp your blog
More articles from this author:2008-01-06 20:21:00 This is a joint post together with Joitske Hulsebosch. 1. What is a widget? According to wikipedia a widget is a third party item that can be embedded in a web page. Widgets are, hence, little blocks of information which can be added to a blog, mostly in the sidebar. Widgets update information, they are not static. ... More About: Pimp , Blog 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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