Overview - Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development (PLA 59)

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Participatory Learning and Action
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Participatory Learning and Action 59 Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development

Holly Ashley, Jon Corbett, Dave Jones, Ben Garside and Giacomo Rambaldi explore the use of Web 2.0 tools for development - and introduce readers to the concept of Web2forDev. Web 2.0 tools are radically changing the ways we create, share, collaborate and publish digital information through the Internet. Participatory Web 2.0 for development – or Web2forDev for short – is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and online collaboration for development. Web 2.0 presents us with new opportunities for change – as well as challenges – that we need to better understand and grasp. The authors share learning and reflections from practice and consider the ways forward for using Web 2.0 for development.

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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Ashley, H., Corbett, J., Garside, B., Jones, D. and Rambaldi, G. (2009). Overview - Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development (PLA 59). .
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