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Better information, better aid | aidinfo
AidInfo was one of the presenters in the OKFN OKcon '09 in the Open Knowledge for development session.
A resource for activists using mobile technology worldwide. | MobileActive.org
via @Katrinskaya <- @wethink
Gov2.0 Camp is over, but something else is starting | Personal Democracy Forum
A good round-up post from Matthew Burton.
"the value of the conference comes from the break-time conversations that evolve by having all of these people in the same place. And this time, it is especially interesting given the people that are here...
For
Change v2
A must-see.
The latest version of Larry Lessig's presentation/speech on "soft corruption" in society / of politics. The presentation discusses in depth trust, mistrust, corruption, and importance of not just transparency, disclosure and objectivity but al
ckreutz's Bookmarks on Delicious
Christian Kreutz's very nice stream of bookmarks on development.
via FOCUSS.info
How to Pick Web Collaboration Tools in International Development
Users and tools: the art of matchmaking.
Challenges in choosing appropriate online collaboration tools for development professionals and practitioners.
Vic Klabbers and Nynke Kruiderink. 2007
Knowledge Management for Development Journal 3(1), 5-25
www.km4
Google Moderator
Create "channels" to allow people to ask questions/suggestions/? on given topic(s) and vote on others questions/suggestions/?.
The Obama team used this during transition (and after?) to get input from people.
Science Commons | dotSUB
Jesse Dylan's yet-another-excellent video. This time on the Science Commons - a Creative Commons project to free science.
Show Us a Better Way
A super interesting response by UK governemnt to demands to free government data.
Way to go UK.
Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them
an interesting activism project to free mapping data (in UK).
Flickr: The Commons
An interesting experimental project in which traditional institutions bring their archives to Flickr for people to see -- and to tag. Library of Congress was the first one to participate. I find this intriguing.
Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks
Hans Rosling is one of my long time favorites. His Gapminder data visualization tool (aquired by Google in ca. 2007) enables brining data to life but even more importantly Hans is capable of telling powerful positive stories about the possibilities of dev
Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 1)
An excellent speech by Bill Gates with a good chunk about development and participation. I bookmarked the speech starting at part 2 originally (check the right pane under "More From: DHK123" for the other parts).
Very inspiring.
YouTube - We Think
A nice 4 min animation video on Charles Leadbeater's book We-Think. Excellent.
All The Modern Things: Freebase, Wikipedia and the right to fork
The post discusses an important issue related to crowdsourced "free-libre-open knowledge" projects. The right to fork.
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fbrianna.modernthings.org%2Farticle%2F20%2Ffreebase-wikipedia-and-the-right-to
Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional
Leadbeater's excellent speech at TEDtalks. The author of We Think. About collaborative creativity in the 21st century.
"In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Pass
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