Whenever people are able to connect and collaborate, engage in conversations, share expertise, and access information, the impact on a society (or quality of life to individuals) can be enormous. This is obviously true for developed countries. But can the same be said about developing countries? Does giving internet access to a poor farmer in South America, Africa, or in poorer regions of Canada, US, or Europe, benefit? Don’t people need the basics of life first? Yes. And no. Web 2.0 in Africa (via Elearning Africa blog) suggests web 2.0 tools can assist farmers in regions such as Uganda gain and share important knowledge about farming. Rather than external experts being the main providers of information, farmers share information about banana growing/harvesting with each other. Reminds me of E. M. Forster’s statement “only connect”. The rest progresses from there…
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3 Comments
I agree–connecting is first and foremost. Web 2.0 technology has the power to transform society and mobilize enormous change. We can see this with nonprofit organizations around the globe using Web 2.0 technologies to fundraise, recruit volunteers, and provide learning content about their programs and social problems they are fighting to address.
I would add two news that I recently posted on my web
The AVU offers e-learning distributed from Learning Centers
(12/01/2008) The African Virtual University (AVU) uses a distributed model of education where students who are in centers located in different countries can communicate through the virtual forum, from learning centers, and solving problems and have access to many of them from their homes.
The FIUMP adapts a Moodle for the University of Ngozi
(12/04/2008) The Group TEDECO (Technology for Development and Cooperation) of the Faculty of Computer Science at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (FIUPM) is adapting a program of universal e-learning (Moodle) to implement at the University Ngozi, located in northern Burundi, near the border with Rwanda, in the framework of a cooperation agreement between the FIUPM and this university that began in 2006.
http://e-learningglobal.es/
I have a hard time believing that Africa is in any need for computers in their current state right now. It seems the money all the other countries send them, for food, is barely doing anything. Why would this be a time for computers when there is still so much to solve?
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[...] Los agricultores en Uganda están utilizando las tecnologías de la web 2.0 para aprender técnicas que le ayudan a mejorar sus cosechas. Además, la web 2.0 facilita el que puedan compartir sus conocimientos mediante foros, wikis y blogs. Parece un sueño pero este proyecto es toda una realidad. Hay que ver el reportaje (Vía Elearnspace): [...]
[...] Los agricultores en Uganda están utilizando las tecnologías de la web 2.0 para aprender técnicas que le ayudan a mejorar sus cosechas. Además, la web 2.0 facilita el que puedan compartir sus conocimientos mediante foros, wikis y blogs. Parece un sueño pero este proyecto es toda una realidad. Hay que ver el reportaje (Vía Elearnspace): [...]
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