- 21 Mar 2013 » Data dive: Measuring poverty through real-time data
- 07 Mar 2013 » Transparency Portal KfW Development Bank
- 12 Feb 2013 » Open aid: Mapping over 100.000 German aid projects from the last 10 years
- 12 Feb 2013 » We would have great apps, if most Open data were not so boring
- 09 Feb 2013 » Budget transparency: A few clicks to accountability?
- 07 Feb 2013 » Transparenz Portal KfW-Entwicklungsbank
- 04 Feb 2013 » Hintergrund Offene-Entwicklungshilfe.de
- 29 May 2012 » A world of big (closed) data and its unused potential
- 23 Feb 2012 » Knowledge management in decline and the prove of data
- 17 Oct 2011 » Results of the Open Aid Data Hackday
- 23 Aug 2011 » Open Aid Data conference and Hackday Berlin
- 19 Aug 2011 » Learning cycling and the persistent illusion that all knowledge can be accessed online
- 12 May 2011 » Who to feed? The open vs. the commercial race for data
- 01 Feb 2011 » What can we learn from Africa on the use of mobiles for social/digital inclusion?
- 20 Jan 2011 » Revenue? Examples of nonprofit or business model for open data
- 12 Jan 2011 » A working-day of a knowledge worker in 2030
- 23 Dec 2010 » Geodaten-Wettlauf: Crowdsourcing versus automatisierte Ansätze
- 16 Dec 2010 » Automated vs. manual mapping - consequences for crowdsourcing
- 10 Dec 2010 » Bandwidth divide: What's fast to you, isn’t fast to others
- 06 Dec 2010 » Slow website speed and consequences for search costs
- 09 Nov 2010 » Where do we learn - visualizing the limitations of social media
- 25 Oct 2010 » The challenges and options to get non open data
- 08 Oct 2010 » Bottom up knowledge management: Crowdsource your taxonomy
- 01 Oct 2010 » Polyglott Net: Activisme cartographique - Cartógrafos alternativos
- 29 Sep 2010 » Data explosion (part 2): How we digitize the world and its implications
- 13 Sep 2010 » Data explosion: The many ways to get content online (or how we digitize the world)
- 26 Aug 2010 » Context is king - new inspiring ideas on Maptivism
- 11 Aug 2010 » Alternative Landvermesser – Mapping Aktivismus weltweit
- 21 Jul 2010 » The many Ning failures: Knowledge sharing in professional circles
- 25 Jun 2010 » What we can learn from farmers about ICT4D and trust
- 04 Jun 2010 » Your address book is the future of social networks
- 28 May 2010 » Talking with the audience: Development organisations and social media
- 17 May 2010 » Presentation: A journey to the world of Maptivism
- 07 May 2010 » A personal six month experiment: Pros & cons of digital reading
- 27 Apr 2010 » Twitter analysis: Development organizations and their listening skills
- 13 Apr 2010 » The long journey to transparency and open data in the development aid sector
- 07 Apr 2010 » What makes people want to join an online community?
- 25 Mar 2010 » Feasibility vs. constraints - learning with mobile phones
- 12 Mar 2010 » Digital publishing and local content in Africa
- 04 Mar 2010 » Frankfurt gestalten: Open data for transparency and engagement in local politics
- 18 Feb 2010 » A transparent world through face recognition and the great challenge for privacy
- 10 Feb 2010 » Cairo, Johannesburg, Mumbai - 24 hrs Google Buzz and location-based information pops up everywhere
- 06 Feb 2010 » SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa
- 29 Jan 2010 » The social web and the challenge of finding expertise
- 15 Jan 2010 » 5 inspiring examples for worldwide Maptivism
- 08 Jan 2010 » When do we trust an information source?
- 18 Dec 2009 » A shift in information sharing: Faster, more intensive and direct
- 04 Dec 2009 » Organization 2.0 - what you should avoid saying
- 01 Dec 2009 » Culture of social networks in Africa on the example of trade
- 01 Dec 2009 » Blog change – work change
- 23 Nov 2009 » From global to local: Mobile, mapping and action
- 01 Nov 2009 » The many potential channels for mobile services
- 16 Oct 2009 » Network overload: The burden to deal with too many social network sites
- 07 Oct 2009 » Combining open innovation and crowdsourcing?
- 02 Oct 2009 » The Internet of Things: Open intelligence through citizen action
- 14 Sep 2009 » Maptivism: Maps for activism, transparency and engagement
- 31 Aug 2009 » Citizen scientist - how mobile phones can contribute to the public good
- 26 Aug 2009 » Mapping the 400+ ICT4D Twitter members
- 18 Aug 2009 » Social media literacy: The gap between normal Internet users and social media enthusiasts
- 20 Jul 2009 » Social networks for a good cause – growth, culture and impact
- 14 Jul 2009 » Exploring the potentials of blogging for development
- 30 Jun 2009 » Information silos vs. open data in development organizations
- 17 Jun 2009 » Google Wave: Real-time trouble and the persistent belief in tools
- 03 Jun 2009 » The race to map Africa and ethical issues around online mapping
- 11 May 2009 » Mobile Activism in Africa
- 08 May 2009 » Perspectives on constraints of ICT in Africa
- 14 Apr 2009 » What does local content have to do with low-bandwidth applications?
- 02 Apr 2009 » Micro-voluntarism a new form of international cooperation
- 05 Mar 2009 » 9 Examples of innovative tools for the mobile phone
- 28 Feb 2009 » Metrics for Social networks: What does really happen?
- 20 Feb 2009 » From A-Z to Organization2.0: F - Flexible staff and members
- 25 Jan 2009 » My take on the state of mobile phones for developments
- 11 Jan 2009 » The participatory web – new potentials for ICT in rural areas
- 31 Dec 2008 » From A-Z to Organization2.0: Q - Quality takes time
- 26 Dec 2008 » Flu alerts and what it says about the future power of information
- 16 Dec 2008 » Future trends of mobile activism
- 05 Dec 2008 » Reach your audience – don't talk about Web 2.0 or social media
- 22 Nov 2008 » Mobile phone innovation may not happen where you think it does
- 14 Nov 2008 » Virtual Forum: Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas
- 23 Oct 2008 » The limits to filter feeds and gain more relevance
- 16 Oct 2008 » Blog action day: The limited view on poverty in Western societies
- 09 Oct 2008 » Africa, Asia, Europe: Web enthusiasts for social innovation
- 10 Sep 2008 » Web2fordev one year after – a critical review
- 08 Aug 2008 » From A-Z to Organization2.0: U - Usability = Higher Motiviation
- 20 Jul 2008 » Mobile phones for development = grassroots innovations
- 03 Jul 2008 » From A-Z to Organization2.0: B - Blogging examples and success factors
- 26 Jun 2008 » First Socialcamp in Germany
- 19 Jun 2008 » Social media for development in the local context
- 05 Jun 2008 » From A-Z to Organization2.0: C - Cafeteria — catching the informal
- 02 Jun 2008 » Digital divide: Connectivity and the different dimensions of literacy
- 25 May 2008 » A - Adaptation: From A-Z — the long trail of web2.0 in an organization
- 19 May 2008 » Wisdom of crowd: Bottom up measuring of development results
- 12 May 2008 » Complexity trap: Local vs. global knowledge in development work
- 05 May 2008 » 6 innovative grassroot mashups for transparency
- 29 Apr 2008 » Mobile everything: 3 new dimensions of citizen engagement
- 17 Apr 2008 » Collaboration for change: Reflections on the Social Innovation Camp
- 14 Apr 2008 » Impressions from Re-publica and Social Innovation Camp
- 11 Apr 2008 » Spoil the user? Why are not always the WYSIWYG Editors the right way?
- 09 Apr 2008 » United Nations mashups: Visualizing world challenges
- 04 Apr 2008 » NGO2.0 is all about learning and ideas (2)
- 03 Apr 2008 » Metrics: What is the impact of social media on organizations?
- 29 Mar 2008 » Search the web for global development topics
- 25 Mar 2008 » Web2.0 - potentials or obstacles for connectivity?
- 19 Mar 2008 » NGO2.0 -- the end of the organization? (1)
- 16 Mar 2008 » Is mobile development repeating ICT4D errors?
- 13 Mar 2008 » Tired of PPT: Start power point karaoke
- 09 Mar 2008 » Organizations can be democratic, flat and passionate
- 05 Mar 2008 » Contribute to the combined ICT4D news feed
- 29 Feb 2008 » One, Two, Three: The digital order and the end of hierarchy
- 25 Feb 2008 » How does social software get in an organization?
- 12 Feb 2008 » When is the collaborative mobile web coming?
- 04 Feb 2008 » Web2.0 and development studies
- 01 Feb 2008 » A network of ideas - development 2.0
- 21 Jan 2008 » 7 concerns about the web in 2008
- 14 Jan 2008 » How Can Nonprofits Use Twitter? Should They Even Bother?
- 14 Jan 2008 » Kenyan bloggers need your support
- 09 Jan 2008 » When will we be freed from the intranet?
- 06 Jan 2008 » Widgets: Pimp your blog
- 03 Jan 2008 » Online privacy in Germany is over
- 31 Dec 2007 » Top posts 2007 and my lessons learnt
- 24 Dec 2007 » Social software for social change
- 18 Dec 2007 » Not English, but a multilingual social web is the key for collaboration
- 13 Dec 2007 » The private vs. the organizational approach to web2.0
- 11 Dec 2007 » Changes in work life: Employee2.0
- 07 Dec 2007 » Citizen journalism in Africa
- 04 Dec 2007 » Notes from the web4dev conference
- 28 Nov 2007 » Start of the web4dev conference: Major issue connectivity
- 25 Nov 2007 » Pitfalls of micro blogging via Twitter
- 20 Nov 2007 » 10 reasons why statuses and tweets are a key for social networks
- 15 Nov 2007 » The difficulty of saying good bye to top-down communication
- 12 Nov 2007 » Open Source Life?
- 05 Nov 2007 » What is the outcome of new social network tools?
- 30 Oct 2007 » Blogs vs. Books for learning
- 27 Oct 2007 » From small to big engagement - big players are entering the web2fordev field
- 18 Oct 2007 » Web2.0, knowledge sharing and IT departments
- 15 Oct 2007 » Blog action day: E-waste, the downside of the growing web
- 08 Oct 2007 » 3 different conversations: blogs to fight poverty
- 04 Oct 2007 » The web comes closer - the magic of tag clouds
- 03 Oct 2007 » Development aid 2.0
- 30 Sep 2007 » web2fordev conference impressions (2)
- 30 Sep 2007 » web2fordev conference impressions (1)
- 25 Sep 2007 » web2fordev conference has started
- 19 Sep 2007 » An overview of blogging for development
- 17 Sep 2007 » Search your own information web
- 15 Sep 2007 » Weekly links: Blogging for democracy and African ingenuity
- 09 Sep 2007 » Innovative online activism mashup
- 08 Sep 2007 » Few steps to a powerful social software application
- 04 Sep 2007 » 10 arguments for web2.0 in an organization
- 29 Aug 2007 » 4 examples for innovative mobile phone use in Africa
- 27 Aug 2007 » Weekly links: About Twitter and the future of the social web
- 26 Aug 2007 » Why to blog? What difference does blogging make?
- 24 Aug 2007 » Open public relation - a contradiction?
- 22 Aug 2007 » Local blogs for politics, media and activism
- 20 Aug 2007 » Feed Mashups: RSS 1 + RSS 2 = RSS unlimited
- 19 Aug 2007 » Does Twitter make sense?
- 18 Aug 2007 » Weekly links: Advocacy2.0, development2.0, knowledge worker2.0 and office2.0
- 13 Aug 2007 » E-democracy: participation next? (2) Germany
- 10 Aug 2007 » An Email alternative: four dimension of feeds (RSS) in organizations
- 06 Aug 2007 » Weekly links: ICT4D, TED in Africa and enterprise2.0
- 05 Aug 2007 » 10 lessons learnt from ICT4D
- 31 Jul 2007 » E-democracy: participation next? (1)
- 30 Jul 2007 » Weekly links July (4): Africa and ICT
- 25 Jul 2007 » Connect lessons learnt through tagging
- 23 Jul 2007 » Can free and open source software make a difference in developing countries?
- 22 Jul 2007 » Weekly links July (3)
- 20 Jul 2007 » Good practice: Group blogging in an organization
- 18 Jul 2007 » Implications of knowlegde sharing through the web
- 15 Jul 2007 » Weekly links July (2)
- 15 Jul 2007 » Social webs in Africa
- 09 Jul 2007 » The open source approach for organizations
- 05 Jul 2007 » 10 challenges for web2.0 in organizations
- 02 Jul 2007 » Weekly links July (1): politics and the web
- 01 Jul 2007 » What effects does web2.0 have on development aid?
- 27 Jun 2007 » A learning story: My way to web2.0
- 23 Jun 2007 » Weekly links June (4)
- 21 Jun 2007 » KM4DEV workshop 2007 - peer learning as its best
- 18 Jun 2007 » Challenges of web2.0 in Africa
- 17 Jun 2007 » An overview on Egyptian bloggers and activism
- 16 Jun 2007 » Weekly links June (3)
- 14 Jun 2007 » NPK4DEV – a collaborative tagging experience
- 10 Jun 2007 » What is enterprise2.0? Five pillars for efficient knowledge sharing
- 09 Jun 2007 » Weekly links June (2)
- 08 Jun 2007 » How can Web2.0 contribute to development?
- 04 Jun 2007 » Do new web applications benefit the poor?
- 02 Jun 2007 » Weekly links June (1)
- 31 May 2007 » Sun blogging turns communication upside down
- 23 May 2007 » Wikinomics: Being open, peering, sharing and acting globally
- 17 May 2007 » Unconference - an online learning approach in real world
- 12 May 2007 » Fair trade laptop - an extra 30 euro would be enough
- 07 May 2007 » Mobile phones for development
- 06 May 2007 » What I learnt about social bookmarking
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This blog explores worldwide social innovations and information and communication technologies.
Christian Kreutz, the founder of Crisscrossed and creator of WE THINQ and co-founder of the German Open Knowledge Foundation, is an open knowledge advocate and adviser on new forms of online collaboration.
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