A few days ago a tragic report came out stating that around a billion people in this world do not have enough to eat. The food crisis will worsen because of the fast rising prices, not to mention the impact of the financial crisis. The difference between the levels of poverty are drastic among different [...]
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[Published in the Internationale Politik magazine in December 2007.]
How the participative Web 2.0 challenges development cooperation – and why this is a chance for development organizations
Adyaka, a village in the heart of Uganda, needs a new trade school. None of the 4,000 inhabitants have the necessary skills to develop a business plan an the government [...]
This week two interesting web2.0 projects for development were released. One is a new website from Ebay called MicroPlace, and the other is a new blog called ideas 4 development. Slowly, big players such as development organizations or companies use web2.0 technology to promote discussions around development or to bundle their capacity to leverage [...]
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