Oriente.com

Very interesting meeting yesterday in Rome organized by @donatelladr with the stars of the web2.0 scenario in the Middle East:
- Laith M. Zraikat co-founder and chief product officer of Jeeran.com, the largest Arab online community with 1,5 millions registered users and more than 7 millions of unique visitors per month.

- Nadine Toukan co-founder [...]

Tomorrow: Blog Action Day ‘09 on Climate Change

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I found my place in Tanzania

Isn’t it great?
The Internet cafe in Njombe in Tanzania is called TUPO: Time to Unite People Online.
This is my place!!!

Firefox 3.5 is ready to be downloaded!

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“We Have a Drinking Problem!”

“We Have a Drinking Problem” it is the title of the campaign we launched today in the FAO Headquarters to put in evidence the high number of plastic bottles produced everyday and the need to reduce this volume pretty soon. An art installation has been mounted in the Atrium to give people the perception of [...]

2009 AMARC Pan African Conference: the results

The results of the election of 4th AMARC Pan African Conference held in Abidjan the 27-30th April 2009.

The new Board of Directors is composed by (from left to the right):

Benilde Nhalevilo: Women Representative from Eastern and Southern Africa (FORCOM) Mozambique
Kofy Larweh: Training officer, (GCRN) Ghana
Zara Yacoub: Institutional development, (DJA FM) Tchad
Franklin Huizies: Vice-president from Eastern [...]

Ushahidi in India

A new application of Ushahidi to report about the Indian vote:

4th AMARC Pan African Conference

I’m very happy to participate to the AMARC Africa’s 4th Pan African Conference!
At the Conference, AMARC will gather its members, community radio stakeholders and relevant partner organizations to discuss the challenges of community radio in Africa. In his invitation, Marcelo Solervicens, Secretary General of AMARC, is eager to stimulate further collaboration between the major partners.
In [...]

Share Fair 09 already finished

Ok, the Share Fair is well finished and I keep on putting pieces together after that nice, funny, interesting, free, relaxing, tiring, visionary week.

Soon, I’m going to blog some internal reflections.

Map of mobile projects for development

To have a visual approach to mobile for development, I prepared a map on GoogleMaps to distribute geographically the projects I’ve been monitoring so far:
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It would be very nice if people knowing other projects would like to contribute to this mapping effort.

Mobile Telephony in Rural Area – Week I Summary

The summary of the discussions of Week I of the online forum on “Mobile Telephony in Rural Area” is ready to be downloaded.

Social media is taking place on Google

This morning I found out that Google interface is changed.
As you can see on the image, new buttons have been added to the screen while reading the list of results.

Three new features are now available:

promote
remove
comment

Just checking techcrunch, and reading the Google blog, it seems like I won’t be one of the few testers able to [...]

Do you know 2.0?

Is the school preparing children to address the coming world?
Are development projects addressing new forms of education as effective tools to fight and prevent future poverty and hunger?
Open questions for which I don’t have answers but only ideas…

Visiting the radio and video studio of FAO

Some days ago a group of communicators working for different services of FAO had a very interesting visit to the radio and video studio of the organization.

Ten of us, part of the “bluebar” communicators list, spent the morning with the responsible for the infrastructure debating on: how to use the facility, the recent and past [...]

LinuxDay 2008 in Italy

25th October: Linux Day 2008 in Italy