Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development

Group Resource

Web 2.0 tools and approaches are radically changing the ways we create, share, collaborate and publish digital information through the Internet. Participatory Web 2.0 for development – or Web2forDev for short – is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and online collaboration for development. Web 2.0 presents us with new opportunities for change – as well as challenges – that we need to better understand and grasp. This special issue shares learning and reflections from practice and considers the ways forward for using Web 2.0 for development.

Contents

PART I: OVERVIEW

  • Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development

  • The two hands of Web2forDev: a conference summary

PART II: STUDIES OF WEB 2.0 TOOLS

  • Exploring the potentials of blogging for development

  • Web 2.0 tools to promote social networking for the Forest Connect alliance
  • Promoting information-sharing in Ghana using video blogging
  • Mobile phones: the silver bullet to bridge the digital divide?

PART III: ISSUE-BASED STUDIES

  • Anti social-computing: indigenous language, digital video and intellectual property

  • Tools for enhancing knowledge-sharing in agriculture: improving rural livelihoods in Uganda
  • Ushahidi or ‘testimony’: Web 2.0 tools for crowdsourcing crisis information
  • Web 2.0 for Aboriginal cultural survival: a new Australian outback movement

PART IV: THEORY AND REFLECTION ON PRACTICE

  • Circling the point: from ICT4D to Web 2.0 and back again

  • Web 2.0 tools for development: simple tools for smart people
  • The Web2forDev story: towards a community of practice

PART V: TIPS FOR TRAINERS

  • Web 2.0 tools: a series of short introductions

Each introductory guide provides a brief description of the Web 2.0 tool and how it can be used for development purposes, along with links to further information and where applications can be downloaded online (more information also in e-participation):

  • Blogging

  • Micro-blogging and Twitter
  • Wikis
  • Online social networking
  • RSS feeds
  • Tagging
  • Social bookmarking
  • Glossary of Web 2.0 terms

This special issue is co-published with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

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Submitted by KMAadmin on 28 August 2009 - 1:18pm. categories [ ]

Systems thinking, scenario planning and leadership competence

Submitted by storytelling on 7 October 2009 - 12:03pm.

Hi Khanyi - thank you for your contribution. Yes, I would be happy to discuss systems thinking & scenario planning, especially looking at the traditional forms of African divination (that are the roots of today's corporate divination and forecasting systems).

For me, the idea behind all divinatory systems is to tell a meaningful story of the future in such a way as to convince, motivate and stimulate action. In this way they are close to systems thinking ideas in that we need to identify those variables that influence the behaviour of a system. Some years ago, I spent time studying the similarities between traditional healers and western-trained doctors which led me to work on narrative therapy (you won't find much about it) and storytelling approaches to leadership and healing. So, how do we go about trying to decode it?

Steve Banhegyi
steve@storytelling.co.za

Contents of the website: Making KnowledgeHub work

Submitted by khanyid on 6 October 2009 - 4:02pm.

Good afternoon knowledge community,

Critical to this site is the content, the style of presentation and the latest trends on interesting topics. The site should also try to initiate debate on complex subject areas like scenario planning, systems thinking and leadership competence. In this case we benefit from the wisdom of many who are members of this community. I am very interested in discussing different scenarios pertaining to the African likely role in the information age for the next 20 years.

Kind regards,

Yours in information age
Khanyi Dlamini

Access to the information resources

Submitted by KMAadmin on 10 September 2009 - 3:43pm.

Dear Khanyi-thank you so much for you motivating comments-they are much appreciated. We'd also like to hear your comments on what you think would make the KnowledgeHub site more useful from the perspective of design and content . We look forward to seeing you online on KMAfrica.com!

KMAfrica Admin
info@kmafrica.com
www.kmafrica.com

Access to the information resources

Submitted by khanyid on 10 September 2009 - 8:43am.

Hi Steve,

I am grateful to have spoken to you. My name is Khanyi Dlamini, based in Johannesburg and working for Anglo Platinum as Senior Safety Risk Manager. I hold Bachelor degree in Geology from University of Natal (1996) and am currently completing my MSc (Management of Technology and Innovation) with Da Vinci Institute of Technology - coursework 90% complete and have already started with my dissertation on Risk Management Frameworks. I am moulding myself into being a Knowledge consultant and that is the reason why I am enrolling for MIKM at Stellenbosch in 2010. I got introduced to the http://isivivane.com/kmafrica website by Prof Johann Kinghorn (Director: Masters in Information and Knowledge Management) at Stellenbosch University and was taken by the amount of information which I have been missing.

I will appreciate to access your workings (books, publications, websites and other information sources etc). Just tell me the process and I will comply.
Kindest regards,
Khanyi Dlamini
083 3074850

ps: the same message was forwarded to your attention from my email address

Web24dev

Submitted by storytelling on 9 September 2009 - 4:16pm.

In almost every major KM conference I have looked at for the past 2 years, almost every one has multiple papers in Web 2.0 for KM. Seems that one of the requirements Postmodern KM is connection to a number of networks and concentrate on knowledge production through conversation... The downloadable guide provides a good overview of the field.

Steve Banhegyi
steve@storytelling.co.za

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