About
Christian Kreutz is a knowledge management and communication specialist, who works at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ- German Technical Cooperation). He studied political science in Germany and Canada. Since 2000 he worked as a consultant for internet communication and for two years was an assistant to a member of the German parliament. From 2003-2006 he worked at GTZ-Egypt, as a project leader for a civil society network project, coordinated the internal and external communication, and organized a cooperation with the Egyptian Higher Education System. At the moment he works in the field of knowledge management at GTZ in Eschborn and specializes in the field of information and communication technologies for development. His interests are knowledge management for development, virtual knowledge sharing and networks for social change.
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Recent Posts
- 6 innovative grassroot mashups for transparency
- Mobile everything: 3 new dimensions of citizen engagement
- Collaboration for change: Reflections on the Social Innovation Camp
- Impressions from Re-publica and Social Innovation Camp
- Spoil the user? Why are not always the WYSIWYG Editors the right way?
- United Nations mashups: Visualizing world challenges
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Random Posts
Topics I write about
- ICT4D
- activism
- africa
- blogging
- civil society
- collaboration
- communication
- conference
- connectivity
- culture
- development
- e-democracy
- enterprise2.0
- feed
- knowledge management
- learning
- links
- mobile
- network
- open source
- openness
- participation
- politics
- sharing
- social bookmarking
- social network
- tagging
- web2.0
- web2fordev
- wiki
Crisscrossed Feed- Twitter: ckreutz: @soloride I know some bloggers from Africa but not from Angola. I am sure @whiteafrican will know someone
- delicious: Global News Blog » Blog Archive » Zimbabwe: New Technologies in Fight for Democracy | Blogs | Reuters.com
- Twitter: ckreutz: smiles that reuters writes about Zimbabwe: New Technologies in Fight for Democracy http://tinyurl.com/6a7nh9
- delicious: Toll-Free Mobile Service Gives Rural Africa Access to Medics | NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise
- Twitter: ckreutz: to all fans of gapminder.org. Google spreadsheets has his gadgets now included. Easy and nice way to make fascinating simulations.
- delicious: Carrotmob: Welcome
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My latest Links
Archive
web2fordev- Shaun Conway: A Collaborative Aid Marketplace: A Social Network Enabled Solution for Development | Technology and Social Action
- I collaborate, e-collaborate, we collaborate: Milieukontakt International's wikis reduce work chaos
- March Presentations: Using Web 2.0 Technologies (and Social Networking Tools) for Social Action | Technology and Social Action
- MarketingSherpa: How UNICEF Doubled Video Exposure With Social Media
- MySpace.com - UNICEF NEW YORK, NEW YORK - www.myspace.com/unicef
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npk4dev bookmarks- Writing for change
- A simple toolkit on report writing skills for people working in international development
- Communications Training materials
- WELL - Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
- Pages tagged with "report_writing" on del.icio.us
- A network of ideas - development 2.0 : crisscrossed blog
- YouTube - Del.icio.us
- Video: Podcasting in Plain English [video]
ICT4D Feed- Delicious: Teledensity and GDP Growth
- Blog search: Akokoraaba's Blog
- Delicious: ICT4D
- Blog post: iCities (XI). Round Table: Free Software in the Administration
- Blog post: iCities (X). Round Table: The Limits of 2.0
- Blog post: Election monitoring using ICT - Metrics, programmes and services
- Blog post: WordPress.com goes down - A chink in the “cloud” and how to plan for it
- Delicious: Are wired kids well served by schools?
- Blog post: iCities (IX). Debate: The Handbook of the blog in the enterprise.
- Blog post: iCities (VIII). Round Table: Eager Citizens. Entrepreneurs.
Most popular posts
- Blog action day: E-waste, the downside of the growing web
- A learning story: My way to web2.0
- 10 challenges for web2.0 in organizations
- 4 examples for innovative mobile phone use in Africa
- Not English, but a multilingual social web is the key for collaboration
- What is enterprise2.0? Five pillars for efficient knowledge sharing
- 3 different conversations: blogs to fight poverty
- Sun blogging turns communication upside down
- web2fordev conference impressions (2)
- E-democracy: participation next? (2) Germany
Links
- AfriGadget
- Beth Kanter
- Black Looks
- CoP for Development
- Deepak Adhikari
- Democracies Online
- Designed for Africa
- Dorine Rüter
- elearningpost
- Elsua
- Ethan Zuckerman
- GlobaLab
- I collaborate
- ICT Development Gateway
- ICT4D by Eldis
- Ictlogy
- internet.artizans
- Johannes Schunter
- Kabissa
- Kikuyumoja
- KM4DEV
- Lisa Mighton
- Martin Koser
- Mental Acrobatics
- MobileActive
- Nancy White
- Netsquared Blog
- Netzpolitik
- Pambazuka
- Smart Mobs
- talk-share-learn
- The Social Organization
- Tobias Eigen
- UNDP ICT4D
- Web Tastings
- Web2fordev Blog
- Web2fordev Facebook Group
- White African
- Wikinomics
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Global Voices Online
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About this blog
This blog aims to explore and develop social changes through communication.
It focuses on tools such as internet — it's impact, potential and challenges it faces within different cultures around the world. It also approaches network learning and highlights knowledge management for development. more > Recent comments
- ckreutz in 6 innovative grassroot mashups for transparency: Hi David thanks for your comment. I have not heard
- David wilcox in 6 innovative grassroot mashups for transparency: Thanks Chris for examples of what individuals can do -
- Let’s not be e-wasteful « Mobbed by Mobile Media in Blog action day: E-waste, the downside of the growing web: […] environmental standards so that the waste can be processed.
- A-Lex-I-Con » Blog Archive » Social Innovation Camp materials in Mobile everything: 3 new dimensions of citizen engagement : […] “Mobile everything: 3 new dimensions of citizen engagement” at
- A-Lex-I-Con » Blog Archive » Social Innovation Camp materials in Impressions from Re-publica and Social Innovation Camp: […] “Impressions from Re-publica and Social Innovation Camp” at crisscrossed
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