Web 2.0 tools to promote social networking for the Forest Connect alliance (PLA 59)

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Published: June 2009
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Participatory Learning and Action
Product code:G02837
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Participatory Learning and Action 59 Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development

Duncan Macqueen describes the development of an online social networking website. Members of the international Forest Connect Alliance had expressed a strong demand for greater information-sharing. The website provided a platform for members to quickly and easily access and share information about state-of-the-art practice in small and medium-sized forest enterprises. Since its creation, the online social network has attracted an increasing number of genuinely active members. Although donors still need persuasion to fund further website development, early indications are that the initiative is having a positive impact.

Participatory Learning and Action (PLA, formerly PLA Notes) is the world's leading series on participatory learning and action approaches and methods. PLA publishes articles on participation aimed at practitioners, researchers, academics and activists. All articles are peer-reviewed by an international editorial board. See: www.planotes.org

Article in: PLA 59. Guest editors: Holly Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben Garside and Giacomo Rambaldi. Published by IIED and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA).

Keywords: Web 2.0, Web2forDev, ICT, ICT4D, mobile, Internet.

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Macqueen, D. (2009). Web 2.0 tools to promote social networking for the Forest Connect alliance (PLA 59). IIED, London.
Available at https://www.iied.org/g02837