Social Interaction

Reuters: Web guru targets malaria with social network site

Submitted by admin on Fri, 25/04/2008 - 19:52.

The British entrepreneur who sold a soccer Web site at the age of 17 for $40 million has switched his attention to help launch a social networking site on Sunday designed to fight malaria.

Tom Hadfield set up Soccer.net in his bedroom before selling it to U.S. sports network ESPN, but now hopes the power of sites such as Facebook can curb a disease that kills an estimated one million people a year, many of them in Africa.

"I believe in the power of friends telling friends telling friends," self-styled part-time student and full-time entrepreneur Hadfield told Reuters in an interview.

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United Nations Meets Web 2.0

25/03/2008 - 09:00
26/03/2008 - 17:30

United Nations Meets Web 2.0

New Media, New Entrepreneurs and New ICT Opportunities in Emerging Markets

The Global Alliance for ICT and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA-GAID) organized an event, entitled "United Nations Meets Web 2.0 - New Media, New Entrepreneurs and New ICT Opportunities in Emerging Markets", on 25-26 March 2008, in Conference Room IV of the United Nations Headquarters in New York. This event was second in a series of intimate, interactive and action-oriented meetings organized by UNDESA-GAID with ICT leaders, who create new and innovative technologies.

Location(s)

United Nations Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street Conference Room IV
New York, NY, 10017
United States
See map: Google Maps
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CNet: Tech-savvy governments to embrace Web 2.0

Submitted by admin on Thu, 24/01/2008 - 15:50.

New research has indicated that tech-savvy government departments will begin to adopt Web 2.0 applications this year.

"'Gov 2.0' will replace 'e-gov,' as governments seek to gain additional value from citizen interaction and business transactions," Teresa Bozzelli, chief operating officer and managing director of Government Insights, which produced the report, said in a statement. Government Insights is an IDC company based in Fall Church, Va.

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Our Stories

Submitted by admin on Mon, 17/12/2007 - 08:27.

The Our Stories™ project helps people share the stories of their lives, no matter where they live or how their stories unfold. We're providing resources to create and share personal stories from all over the world, starting with children in developing countries who are using One Laptop per Child (OLPC) computers or those who are working with UNICEF radio producers to record and share interviews. Children are asked to record the stories of elders, family members, and friends.

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NYTimes: In India, Poverty Inspires Technology Workers to Altruism

Submitted by admin on Mon, 29/10/2007 - 22:56.

Babajob seeks to bring the social-networking revolution popularized by Facebook and MySpace to people who do not even have computers — the world’s poor. And the start-up is just one example of an unanticipated byproduct of the outsourcing boom: many of the hundreds of multinationals and hundreds of thousands of technology workers who are working here are turning their talents to fighting the grinding poverty that surrounds them.

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Global Voices: Bloggers' Notes From Web2forDev Conference

Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/10/2007 - 14:52.

Web2forDev is the first conference on participatory web for rural development, which took place from 25-27 September 2007 in Rome, Italy. Bloggers who were covering the event included African journalists who were blogging both in English and French at the Web2forDev blog.

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GKP: Young Social Entrepreneurs - "Spearheading the Future"

Submitted by admin on Wed, 27/06/2007 - 08:36.

Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) launched the Global Young Social Entrepreneurs? Competition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, today.

The Global Competition will select 100 winners who will be sponsored to attend the up coming Young Social Entrepreneurs Forum.

The Forum is a key feature of the 3rd Global Knowledge Conference (GK3), a GKP Event on the Future on 'Emerging People, Emerging Markets, Emerging Technologies' that will gather 2000 participants from 11-13 December 2007 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia.

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