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1217 Articles match "Development","Examples"
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Put simply, it has a complex shape and developing methods to map the complex virtual-physical amalgam is an ongoing area.
To envision the virtual-physical mapping take the example of the iconic London tube map ; this is a topological map designed to help passengers navigate around and not a geographical map accurately reflecting the positions of the stations. There is an interesting discussion going on about how the flow of data moving around the internet gives it a ’shape’ and what that shape means. You can see this discussion written up in an interesting article
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Meanwhile, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced that the company’s developers are cracking on with a workaround for users in China, where the microblogging service is blocked. The bill, regarded as both draconian and ill-conceived by entities as diverse as TalkTalk and the British Library, has drawn the fire of online democracy group 38Degrees ; their service lets individuals contact their MP to demand that the bill is properly debated, or abandoned. THE LOWDOWN ... A scabrous new US tech-based comedy series is being developed, you say? Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams.
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Friday, March 19, 2010
P2P production and energy production
“In the heart of developed capitalist economies, in the sphere of production of immaterial commodities, we are becoming witnesses of a very deep transformation characterized by the emergence of a new form of production. If the detachment of the means of production and their accumulation by a class of owners was the necessary condition for the creation of the labour market and the development of relations of capitalist exploitation, the reunion of the means of production with individual producers is the most fundamental condition for the genesis
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Some time ago, I compiled some examples of what you can do with web2.0 tools for communication within a development project. are designed for participation, and what is more core business for development organizations? sites where crowds of people are interacting I can provide some examples of each of these options, though there are probably lots of other In this case, a large project in several countries. I'd like to share my ideas about the different ways of engaging with the wide range of web2.0
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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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Monday, February 23, 2009
For the second in our series of Online Community Examples , we move on to look at online communities in the retail industry.
Wal-Mart have a chaquered history with social media (the infamous Wal-Marting Across America campaign, for example), but they are doing some great things at the moment. One good example of building a small but powerful online community is Elevenmoms . Online communities in the retail industry
In an economic downturn, we’re seeing a real shift in retail shopping patterns.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
I thought I could list all practical examples I gathered so far, so that if people want to know about communities of practices in a development cooperation context I can refer to this blogpost. The list is longer than I thought: Community of ICT4D trainers ILO/CIARIS experiences in lusophone Africa Communities of practice in India CoP in Ghana Tech forum in Kumasi, Ghana The community empowerment network in Central Asia Ayuda Urbana, a cop on urban development in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean Communities of practice at CARE International E-collaboration
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
It is a couple of weeks since our last set of online community examples , with trips to the Marketing 2.0 But we’re returning today with a great set of examples from the healthcare industry.
Online communities for healthcare can provide real insight and real support as the examples below show.
Conference in Paris and Web Mission 09 in San Francisco taking up much of our time and space on the blog. Online communities in healthcare
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Friday, November 21, 2008
For example, you can use your twitter network to help you do your work. 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.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Friday the 13th, ICCO invited all interested to an afternoon in Utrecht, the Netherlands, about working with wikis in development organisations. Examples were shared of the Educafroc wiki, a private wiki to support a conference in West Africa. Henk Gilhuis shared another example of a wiki about landrights in Brasil, also a private wiki. 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.
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Sunday, June 7, 2009
So building on your core values and developing agreements is a sound strategy.
For example, you may try a blog as an alternative to a traditional email newsletter. These are examples of using quantitative metrics. Examples of social media evaluation efforts:
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
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
During the presentation I showed some practical examples of the way people or organisations use these tools for learning, networking, advocacy, fundraising etc. I did a presentation during a Euforic training in Maastricht about web2.0 tools, especially blogs wikis and RSS feeds. with the aim of stimulating the imagination of the participants who
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
They interviewed a 14 years-old called Asma and describe her use of internet as an example. 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
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