SCD and Intercooperation have commissioned a study called Experiences with communities of practice in India , an important resource published in december 2005. It is a good study looking at exisiting CoPs in the development sector in India. The example which struck me was the example of the MBTI synergy group: The MBTI Synergy Group was a spontaneous creation of all the people who attended the MBTI accreditation A wide variety of groups and networks were studied, like a farmers group producing a journal, an exchange programme, a listserv and email discussion group, and information sharing group on livelihoods and gender equity and a group championing women's rights.

Chocolate , of course. wikirage1 :  The Indian  Agricultural Research  Institute (IARI) is the institute for advanced education in agriculture in India.  [link] The folks over at BrandonHall, the learning folks who blog lots of interesting links, pointed out a value of Twitter that not all of us may have seen yet. Twitter as a search engine.

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This is not, of course, a done deal, but  economic necessity will force us to look more closely at these issues. would argue that we are slowly but surely solving the puzzle - thanks, of course, to the network.  Nor is there any reason why we could not do that (assuming we reach reasonable scale) make money, and even give the service away free to entire regions where people were too poor to pay for it - parts of Africa, India, or China, for example.   Via Stephen Downe s, Judy Breck believes, and I agree, that the economic crunch will speed the advent of network learnin g.

Each of these features existed in some form before SixDegrees, of course. Friendster gained traction in the Pacific Islands, Orkut became the premier SNS in Brazil before growing rapidly in India (Madhavan, 2007), Mixi attained widespread adoption in Japan, LunarStorm took off in Sweden, Dutch users embraced Hyves, Grono captured Poland, Hi5 was adopted in smaller countries in Latin America, South America, and Europe, and Bebo became very popular in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia. JCMC Home Submit Issues Author Index Editors About JCMC boyd, d.

This shift from material goods to self-expression and social capital is heartening, but the real story is not in the coffee shops in California, but in villages in India and small towns in China that are just beginning to get online. Like cell phones in India, social networking will have a tremendous impact in the developing world. People in emerging x Username: Password:

don’t have any bold “this specific event will happen here” predictions for 2010, but I do want to give one location-specific example of where I think this trend toward the degradation of the Nation-State construct will be especially severe: India. No, I don’t think India will collapse (though there will be plenty of stories of woe), nor that the state government that occupies most of the geographic territory of “India” will collapse (note that careful wording). Excerpted from a longer article by Jeff Vail , advocate of the Diagonal Economy , on 2010 as a tipping point: “2010 is the year we commit to Catabolic Collapse–the concept that our civilization will experience a long, slow, and bumpy decline over the next several decades.

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1 This thinking was originally tested in WorldJam, IBMs first large-scale collaboration, held in May 2001, when over 50,000 employees (or 16 percent of the IBM employee population) discussed critical issues with IBM leaders over the course of a three-day online collaboration event. Much of the increase was due to opening up participation to many more employees. Figure 1 The shift to collaborative innovation has been gradual over the course of the last 10 years as the IBM business model has evolved beyond that of the e-Business era and IBM has become a services company.

Firstly, there’s the sudden growth of Facebook within existing employees - the choice there is to tolerate it and count the benefits (more connected social networks, greater sense of commonality and so on) or to focus on the downside (timesink, waste of resourses, non-officially sanctioned communications) and choke it off. Interesting to note that the big consultancies and media organisations like the BBC have gone for the former (the PWCs of this world would of course claim that such a choice is part of their corporate culture anyway). More formally, I can’t help but chuck