tools for communication within a development project. are designed for participation, and what is more core business for development organizations? developmen Some time ago, I compiled some examples of what you can do with web2.0 In this case, a large project in several countries. I'd like to share my ideas about the different ways of

Forum One co-sponsored the Open Development Barcamp at the World Bank on Friday. So what exactly is open development? IDML or International Development Markup Language is an emerging XML standard for aid information. The Development Gateway's AiDA project is the largest online directory of development activities, and provides information about who Over 100 people showed up to talk about how we can make aid more transparent and do a better job of sharing knowledge and lessons learned across organizations, projects, topics, and countries. Owen Barder of

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Featured Publication on Strategies for Leveraging Social and Economic Linkages for Growth The Fall 2008 issue of Developing Alternatives is devoted to network strategies and tools for economic development. Big thank you to Grady Batchelor for bringing this to our attention. http://www.dai.com/pdf/Developing_Alternatives_Fall_2008--web.pdf Contents: A Network Optic on Development by Ulrich F.W. Ernst A Network View of Economic Development by Cesar A. Hidalgo and Ricardo Hausmann Value Networks: Mobilizing Knowledge for Progress

Twitter provides you the possibility to exchange short messages with a large number of people. You can follow people, or otherwise, people can follow you. Twitter can be used in many different ways. For example, you can use your twitter network to help you do your work.

How to Develop a Community Strategy The topics, which generally follow my strategy development process, will be: 1. How to develop content & activity plans for the community, including –Where: How to develop community and social media policies that fit your organization, and how to deploy them. 10. The topic of online community strategy is one of the things that occupies a large chunk of my mental cycles. I've written about a pretty basic process and framework a few times over the years, and I think the baseline concepts have held up well.

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So building on your core values and developing agreements is a sound strategy. Tags: collaboration international development knowledge sharing non profits/ngos online interaction social media CGIAR FAO kstoolki I’ve been co-designing and c0-facilitating a number of workshops for the CGIAR and FAO over the past few years about knowledge sharing, and more recently, this phenomenon people call “social media.” 8221; Part of this work has been to  comb through resources and create some launch pads that are relevant to NGOs and non profits.

Friday the 13th, ICCO invited all interested to an afternoon in Utrecht, the Netherlands, about working with wikis in development organisations. Some interesting and honest stories from ICCO , Euforic and IICD were shared, and David Weekly, the founder of pbwiki was around to share tips for power users of pbwiki and get input from his customers so that the service of pbwiki can be improved. David seemed really committed to doing that and kept on asking everyone what their wishes were.

Tags: developmen Don Slater and Janet Kwami wrote a very interesting paper talking about social use of technology in Ghana: Embeddedness and escape: internet and mobile phone as poverty reduction strategies in Ghana From the abstract: " The paper argues that Internet and mobile phone use represent two opposed configurations of ICT use, rather than a single movement into an ‘information society’. Moreover each configuration exemplifies quite different poverty reduction strategies deployed by poor urban Ghanaians.