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Web2forDev: Web 2.0 for Development Gateway

Who Does What on Wikipedia?

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"We found that all-round contributors dominated the best-quality entries" writes Sudha Ram, a professor at the Eller College of Management and the University of Arizona, US. According to a recently published study the quality of entries in the world's largest open-access online encyclopaedia depends on how authors collaborate.

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The information shadow: a threat or an opportunity?

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Tim O’Reilly, who framed the concept Web 2.0, sees a new development for the Internet “The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describes something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world: everything and everyone in the digital world casts an “information shadow,” an aura of data which, when captured and processed intelligently, offers extraordinary opportunities and mind-bending implications.”

On the other hand “as more of the unstructured information that we create (or that is created about us) is retained, our digital universe expands and our own digital shadow lengthens”, reports Mark Lewis from IDC, a US-based ICT market intelligence service provider.

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Online tools for project management

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Online project management tools enhance productivity and transparency. Project management can easily become chaotic and not very efficient whether you are part of  a team or of an organization. If you were planning to enhance remote collaboration, an Intranet or document management system was so far a good choice. Online project management tools go beyond that and allow decentralized collaboration between co-workers, thus project planning and implementation get more transparent and productive.

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Selecting content and reducing complexity to counter information overload

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Thanks to social networks, such as Twitter, information can spread around a lot faster. People  can easily connect to others or sharing similar interests; Exchanges among peers make information circulating more relevant. But the downside of social networks is that they do not help to cope with what many of us do experience: information overload. On the contrary, the speed of the real-time web is breathtaking.

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A starter for mobile phone services ...

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Throughout the 3 days of CTA’s 2009 ICT Observatory , mobile services were discussed from many different angles. The enthusiasm for mobile phones is great, but it seems that a breakthrough and massive adoption of mobile services is yet to come. Nevertheless, in comparison with personal computers, mobile phones will still make a big difference, particularly in developing countries.  Why is this?

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