What are politician’s decisions about your neighborhood? What does usually happen in my street and what could be done better?

As if the digital world was not already big enough, it still keeps expanding to the offline or physical world. But what does offline anyway means these days with ubiquitous mobile Internet access? That term is losing its meaning. Should that be a problem?

In this blog post, I will dive into the latest buzz: Google Buzz.
Google Buzz is a huge jump in location-based services as it happens all around the world at once.

The new opportunity to have activism through mobile phones is fascinating. I  have already often written about it. A while ago Sokari Enkine asked me to write a chapter for a recent published book funded by Hivos.

Wouldn’t it be great if you had a question, you could find an answer in your network right away? Most of us are members of many communities – many people with a lot of expertise. Why is it not easier then to tap on that potential to get answers from peers?

“But the maps provided something that the narrative and statistics lacked [...] We could articulate the case in words.

Information research is performed in many different ways throughout the Internet. Once an information is found, the assessment of its relevance and trustiness happens through objective criteria and on the premise of subjective factors.

Something has changed. Information sharing isn’t what it used to be. We are in a middle of a network transformation as information sharing becomes faster, more intensive and more interconnected. In terms of collaboration and innovation, it is exciting, but in terms of speed, we might reach our limits.

The Open Government Directive has put out a call for openness and collaboration within and among government agencies. To do this, experts in open-source like those in the Drupal community are stepping up to help build an effective, open model for government.

What you better not say when you want to bring Web 2.0 (change) in an organization
This is for all of you, who share the daily burden to convince people for open knowledge sharing through the Internet for the benefit of all.