Conference: Participatory Web for Development
CTA, FAO and other development organizations are joining forces to hold an international conference on the use of so-called 'web 2.0' applications to facilitate networking, collaborating and exchanging knowledge in agriculture, rural development and natural resource management.
The conference will be held at FAO in Rome from 25 to 27 September 2007, with pre-conference seminars on 24 September.
The conference will serve as a meeting point for the whole community interested in ‘web 2.0’ approaches in development. The organizers conceived and designed the event as a breeding ground for new partnerships and collaborations. The presentations and case studies presented during the conference will focus on the following areas:
Tags: agricultural information conference
The conference will be held at FAO in Rome from 25 to 27 September 2007, with pre-conference seminars on 24 September.
The conference will serve as a meeting point for the whole community interested in ‘web 2.0’ approaches in development. The organizers conceived and designed the event as a breeding ground for new partnerships and collaborations. The presentations and case studies presented during the conference will focus on the following areas:
- Shared virtual spaces remote collaboration and knowledge sharing like remote file sharing, social networking, social book marking, wikies and more …
- Appropriate technologies for on-line publishing like web publishing, blogging, wikies, etc.
- Online Information retrieval and access like search engines, alert services (e.g. RSS, selective dissemination of information and open access journals and more
Tags: agricultural information conference
Labels: aaa, aginfo, agriculture, ciard, conference, cta, fao, information, web2.0
posted by Peter Ballantyne at Monday, February 26, 2007
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