Guardian launches Web 2.0 fix for Africa's problems
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15 million readers, one Ugandan village. That'll work... The newspaper editor described (by his own newspaper, at least) as being "at the forefront of the digital revolution" has launched a three year programme that will connect "the ideas, goodwill, resources and expert knowledge of 15 million readers around the world" and focus them on lifting an African village "out of the Middle Ages." Over the next three years, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger wrote in Saturday's edition, the village of Katine in Northern Uganda will be mapped and recorded by teams of Graun hacks observing progress in this "catalyst for change."â¦
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Google.org project InSTEDD launches Thursday and aims to help communities around the world use Web and communications technology like Twitter to warn people of outbreaks like Avian flu or disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
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Amnesty International has launched a Web site that uses satellite imagery technology to predict outbreaks of violence in Darfur so villagers can be warned.
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The mobile Linux company Azingo announced a new line of open source software it hopes can satisfy new phone applications developers' needs to offer Web 2.0 technology to mobile phone users.
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Executives at Morgan Stanley and Pfizer explain how their companies are starting to use Web 2.0 tools to improve communication among workers and with customers.
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John D. Halamka has updated his institution's medical libraries for a Web 2.0 world.
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I'm feeling scrappy Not even a bloody ethnic conflict can dampen Google's burning lust for world domination. Kenyan news sources say that the search juggernaut is building up its African headquarters in Nairobi.â¦
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How to tap and protect Africa's natural resources, the continent's role in the world and the information age's impact on African society are pressing themes as a summit of African leaders opens Thursday.Comment
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Folksonomies Web 2.0 pioneers are taking personal control of how online content is organised, according to new research.â¦
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FOR a city better known for its banks and hedge funds, London is doing remarkably well in the brave new world of Web 2.0.
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Weblogs from dangerous regions of Africa, Borneo, and beyond are allowing isolated rangers and other conservationists unprecedented lifelines to each other and the outside world.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Plans to lay an undersea fiber-optic cable off eastern Africa could be the beginning of the end of crackling long-distance calls, slow dial-up Internet connections and universities without e-mail.
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Monaco? Togo? A new ranking says tiny countries may have the edge in devising websites to deliver information and services.
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Blog: The United Nations and a group of U.S. organizations work together to bring the latest medical information to health professionals in poor countries free via the Internet.
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The Web 2.0-social networking phenomenon's seemingly irresistible force field has ensnared yet another niche: travel.
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Now is the time to act on a constellation of problems impacting Africa. That is the view of the UK government's recently established Commission for Africa, which yesterday talked to specialists working in the ...
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Tell Cisco what you really think So much of the Web 2.0/Participation Age garbage arrives with false pretenses of goodwill. Give everyone a MySpace page and our collective spirit will fill the world with creativity and freshness. Gwana-gwana.â¦