Having emerged from the worst period of its history, the genocide of 1994, Rwanda has placed its faith in IT with some big promises - mobile phone use should double from just 20% to up to 40% by next year. The government is giving away 35,000 handsets to help that happen. It wants a PC … Continue reading Rwanda forges ahead with IT (via the BBC) water, agriculture, IT & energy in parallel

It [the Internet] is as much a new opium for the people as a catalyst for democratic awakening.via matthewtaylorsblog.com This is as true in the "free" west as in the various "authoritarian regimes" identified. It is just that it is not the government regimes or apparatus of the states in the west that are producing … Continue reading The internet society – time to get real : Matthew Taylor via @josiefraser

Social Media Governance Empowerment with Accountability via socialmediagovernance.com Now that is a useful link: a page of links to the social media policies of 82 organisations such as the American Red Cross, BBC, Cisco, EFF, Dow Jones as well as a host of universities and Web2.0 companies. Policy wonks, enjoy! Posted via web from George's … Continue reading Online Database of Social Media Policies via @dtssmithers

I wonder if there is a WordPress or other blogging platform plug-in that uses a mash-up to suggest tags from an underlying, emerging vocabulary formed from various social knowledge sites?  Within a social tagging system such as Diigo, Delicious, Technorati, Digg, Twine: even in your own blog, tags and categories emerge and are guided. One's … Continue reading Can we assemble around tag cloud normalisation @jiscssbr @cheeky-geeky

They’re so organized at America’s Next Top Model that we might consider asking them to inform people about the resurgent H1N1 flu virus.  We might also consider hiring Bravo’s producers as government public affairs consultants.If you think I’m joking about that, you probably have no business working with social media for the government. via briansolis.com … Continue reading Fallacious Celebrations of Facebook Fans via @cheeky_geeky

Faviki is a social bookmarking tool that allows you to tag webpages you want to remember using Wikipedia terms. This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world’s largest collection of knowledge via faviki.wordpress.com If the wikipedia ontology: dBwiki and the ontologies from Delicious, Digg and Diigo could be mashed up … Continue reading Faviki social bookmarking based on emergent (?) ontology dBwiki

In the hallwayBlack bin bags of VHS tapesRemember when this wasLearning technology via scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com I like it 🙂 in the hallway black bin bags of VHS tapes new technology (haiku-ized) Posted via web from George's posterous

Here I argue that the underlying mechanics of Twitter more closely resemble the knowledge co-creation seen in wikis than the dynamics seen with conversational tools like instant messaging and interactions within online social networks. via radar.oreilly.com This article significantly deepens our understanding of Twitter, but I do not think the either/or structure or negation in … Continue reading Is Twitter “Not a Conversational Platform”? @cheeky_geeky – O’Reilly Radar

Prevention is better than cure. Structure101 allows you to define how the world should be, promote a shared vision through the team, and enforce (or just monitor) conformance. via headwaysoftware.com Wow. How far would they go to do that? Posted via web from George's posterous

IT in Teacher Education (ITTE)  Session: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/talks/show/6869  Barriers-research to understanding factors that inhibit IT practice in a fluid, nonlinear, iterative culturally complex world. Pathway is not an appropriate way to describe this multi branched space: cultural cartography or learning terrains. Communities (of practice) are the answer?  cites Beetham, McGill & Littlejohn 2009  CF Brown Lauder … Continue reading ITTE: education is fluid, non-linear, iterative (chaos innit?) #falt09 #altc2009