Climate Change and Communication for Development

Today, for the Blog Action Day ‘09, the topic is the connection between Communication for Development, the discipline managed by the Team I’m part of at FAO, and Climate Change, the topic all of us are dealing with these days and in the near future.
Writing this post is not an easy job due to the [...]

Tomorrow: Blog Action Day ‘09 on Climate Change

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The ability of creating linkages through the Internet

I recently found this article and I think it’s worth reading it. Written by Seth Godin, it’s called “How to make money using the Internet“. As you can understand from the title, the article is meant for a business audience and not directly for people involved in development projects.
Nonetheless, I see interesting prods about how [...]

Participatory photography?

In Darlene E. Clover’s description participatory photography:
“places the medium of the camera into the hands of learners to democratize the image-making dynamic and give them the power to show and speak their own realities.”
Learn more on participatory photography with the PhotoVoice Manual.
p.s.: I was able to know participatory photography and learn about it thanks [...]

Faces form twitter

A funny tool to visualize the “faces” of those who are following you on twitter:

Something I discover thanks to my friend Gauri.

Blogging and the blogosphere: present and future

Internazionale is a very interesting magazine and offers tons of inputs for better understanding what’s going on around the world. It helps putting pieces together.
The number last week collected the following three articles on blogging:

Why I blog by Andrew Sullivan,
Who killed the blogosphere? by Nicholas Carr, and
The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady [...]

Prodding from the Share Fair 09

Thanks to Nadia Manning-Thomas, my friend in the KM4DEV list, for this interview to Geoff Parcell, who opened the Share Fair 09 with his keynote.
When asked about the highlights of the Fair, Geoff, who is in charge of the knowledge management for the WHO, UNDP, the World Bank and the Swiss Development Agency, noted:
“An additionally [...]

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.

Share Fair 09 just started

The Fair is started at the end after so much preparation and it’s seems to be quite successful until now. The official ceremony was full of people and the atrium at FAO is a great place to meet people and talk.
I’m confident the event can be interesting even if many people in the buildings are [...]

Mobile Telephony in Rural Area – Final greetings

The Forum on Mobile Telephony just ended. I think this has been a very interesting discussion, not only for the postings themselves, but mainly for the large number and value of people involved, experiences described and points of view reflected during two weeks.
To give an idea the complexity and the value of our last discussion [...]

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 [...]

Forum on Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas

The Forum is up and running.
People from more than 40 different countries already introduced themselves and are ready to share experience, ideas and vision with us.
Join it at http://www.e-agriculture.org/regform.html

Open Invitation to the Virtual Forum on “Mobile telephony in rural areas”

This is an open invitation to take part to the online forum on “Mobile Telephony in rural areas” which will take place from the 17 to the 28 of November.
Mobile technology for development seems to be today an excellent solution in support of many development activities. As you remember, we introduced the topic [...]