Nynke Kruiderink

From Web2forDev

Saskia Harmsen (IICD) The introduction to the taster day included, among other things:

• Introducing the organizers of this day, which is different from the rest of the conference, in the form of a tag cloud.
• All participants are requested to participate, as everyone present is a resource person
• Avoid jargon!
• Add thoughts to the democracy wall so we can continue learning. Let organizers know what you want to know more about and these topics can be discussed during the open spaces.

Kevin Painting (CTA)

• Introduction to web 2.0
• What is web 2, why this conference and what does it mean about the way that we work?
• Web is coming of age. It is a Copernican revolution, focus has shifted from the earth to the sun, from the website to the user/actor.
• The focus is now on what you’re doing and not how it’s done.
• Web 2.0 scope includes concept and practices.
• Folksonomies, it was predicted that they would fail but they ar extremely useful.
• RSS is ubiquitous to web 2.0
• My headlines

Christian Kreutz

• Fan of Barcamp, let’s copy the model, everyone introduce yourself, who you are, where you’re from and what you expect from this day!
  • … introductions take place
• I am a blogger
• Web 2.0 is about communication, not about technology, a two way conversation
• Become part of a community
• Light weight technology
• Orientation on users
• Great discussion
• It is a strategic community tool
• Started his own blog 5 months ago and amazed and how quickly it has taken off, people responding, interacting.
• Applied an internal blog in GTZ office Egypt. After 6 months it was self driven.
• Main difference between blog and wiki: blog is communicative tool, wiki is collaboration tool.

Comment: Can also send an email to a blog to get it published.

Prince Deh Vlogging Ginks

• Personal experience with video vlogging
• Main goal of vlogging is to upload a video to the web and get a response
• Cover equipment you need to vlog.
• Also, actively announce your vlog.
• Listening to someone is more captivating. It is usefull to trigger interest and from there people can go further and find more information.
• Vlogging can b easily done by a non-technical person.
• Video’s in a blog encourage people to comment.

How is vlogging accessible for people with low bandwidth? Advisable to take a very short video.

The major challenge is connectivity Then, challenge to share Information and Knowledge

356 visitors to ginks website since beginning of year 850+ visitors to blog since april

What software/hardware tools can you use to filter out noise around speaker? Advice: invest in an external microphone for really good sound quality.

Are there platforms for hosting videos for development? Anna: open source: engagemedia OneWorld Internetarchive.org

KisanBlog (FarmerBlog) Very often networks become hierarchical, unideirectional and vertical. For experts or pundits/gurus to address their disciples. High focus on horizontal networks and return loop, the field o the lab loop. Challenge: many farmers are notliterate or English literate, or speak one of the 34 official languages of India. Audio, exclent way to allow farmers to talk to each other. Blog for the farmers, with the farmers and by the farmers. Interaction between farmers and scientists.

Started with 5 agricultural knowledge centers, covering 500 people. They are all located within 50 km of the head office. All code created for project is available for downloading for free and they provide support. At this moment 23000 Q&As or sessions. Challenge to filter out spam/pranks and guarantee quality, authenticity. Looking at how to create a Wikipedia like process. Trying to build an ontology, folksnomy type, to later be able to create searchable repository Login is not text based but pictures: i.e. two potatoes, four oranges. This is also fun. In every social networking endeavour there should be an elemnt of fun, otherwise it will not catch on. Searching through audio content is difficult. Typically download of 1-1,5 minute. Experimenting with compressed file transfer for phone. Ensure quality, otherwise people will lose trust, not come, and it will die.

Blog accessible via homepage Most popular posts are not those of scientists, but those of farmers. Farmers want to know what other farmers are doing, they trust other lead farmers.

How did you let the farmers know about this tool? Answer: canvassing, evangelizing, participating in farmers fairs, exhibitions.

How do you control answers? Answers regulated by farmers themselves.

Are the scientists paid? Their jobs are already to help the farmers, paid by the government. We have created an own website for each scientist where they can profile themselves on and acts as a big insensitive.

“Appreciate appreciation”

We use agrobot, (in hindi) to tag the posts. This si down at the service center, 5 phd students doing this. This becomes an extension to their cv, improvements their employability.

Anja Barth / Giacomo Rambaldi Live presentation of sharing a desktop, combination skype/unyte Struggle for control Offers training via unyte/skype. For example when setting up a Dgroup he can show the lyris backend Remote collaboration tools help to save time, and are more efficient.

See presentation recording

Q;e this instead of teleconferencing? A: zero budget

Golden rule: the on ewith the best connection should initialize the conference.

Collaborative: 1. Enabling collaboration/communicaon (giacomo 2. How to collaborate in content creation (Karel)

Karel Novotny Very simple website which is relatively basic to install, people with basic web administration can install. What is the difference with a blog? For both you don’t need any HTML knowledge With wikis you start with very basic and can grow to a very complicated/complex website without website creation skills.

Wikipedia is an example of a wiki, which started very simple, and today is very huge.

You can download Wikipedia onto a single cd, it extracts all the media. (Tobias Eigen)

Conference wiki: from the conference schedule we can access notes, presentations of the speakers, and add our own notes about each presentation.

Each participant has their own wiki page.

Wiki is not linear. It is anarchic. Pages have unique names.

It is great for collaborative project development and eventplanning ,logistics.

Wiki Matrix to choose the right wiki for you

Wiki gardener: definition

Tobias Eigen www.Kabissa.org/wiki docu wiki mediawiki template

use single wiki for everything

Time to get online : training online Originally develop das word, distributed in PDF. Printable tabs, on a cd… idea to create a self containing resource for African civil servants. Hassle to keep data up to date. Intern last spring wiki-fied manual into wiki. Interface much more userfriendly than adobe acrobat. Content directly accessible via 1 link, not 3 and downloading non wanted content.

Also print friendly Training partners contribute to the manual

Documented the process of wikifying the manual

Management time and different roles Decentralized management structure. Each project has their own responsibility for quality control. Also relevtan for quality control is that a history is maintained of every single change.

RSS feed alerts show what has changed in the wiki.

Q:How to deal with track changes and radical changes? A: Start with trust and open. If things become problematic, you can close off specific pages which are particularly sensitive.

There are also discussion pages in a wiki?

TRUST: key to a good wiki

Christian Kreutz How did web 2.0 change information sharing to me personally

I was always critical and skeptical, lost. Social bookmarking, share you rlinks How you find out that other people have the same bookmarks Becom epart of a community, engage with people whi share similar knowledge and information. It’s about sharing.

GAME

World bank: Supply side: old fashioned 10-15 people “thought” this information would be well presented in this way

Everyone write down five tags:

Open source Tools Development Ict4d Collaboration Social networking

One person mention one tag Everyone stand up who has used the tag blogging

Shows relevance between the people in the room

We often have more interests than the people in our direct environment have or know about. When you go online you can find them.

Reason why folksonomies move towards each other, when you bookmark something, you see how it has been bookmarked by others

One shared tag “web2fordev” will allow everyone in this room to find each other.

Delicious, meta level tagging resource.

Flickr site: tag cloud is a magic thing, it shows what the community has on it’s mind.

Afrigator Tag trends, keywords used in the past couple of days, to show what the community is tagging.

Q Henriette: Tagging and multi lingual content. It was tried in the conf blog. It is very difficult to overlap.

Using tags which don’t overlap creates silos. Solution: semantic web. (Johan, contact christian)

Use office wiki to develop training materials and proposals. This wiki offers key terms section. Is this tagging or social bookmarking, it is tagging.

Meta data is for a system/machine/search engine. Tagging is for people.

Major importance is relevance. No tag stands alone. There are always a circle of tags around.

Anna: devil’s advocate. Tagging helps to navigate the web, everyone can create their own tags.

Yes, this is a challenge. But it is intuitive Jon: Who is the expert?

Wisdom of crowds

Tagging, most fundamental concept to come to terms with when using web 2.0 If you don’t tag, you are marginalizing your content. Tagging also identifies you, is your profile and can be using for marketing.

Prince: when I tag my posts with very good tags, they receive more hits.

Pier Euforic

How to convert to a printable version? What tool did they use?

Wiki matrix

When do you choose to use a video and when do you use text? What is the difference between downloading video’s and stream them. “If you don’t announce your blog, nobody knows about it.” People can choose to subscribe or receive alerts to your blog. This can be done via RSS, and/or email.

What are rashes?

Afternoon

Storyboarding

Better to have 4-5 short movies of 4-5 minute video’s than one long on of 15 minutes.

Tip:Put the camera on your shoulder and ask the question. People automatically face the camera. Do not zoom, get in as close as possible. Microphones on simple digital camera’s aren’t usually high quality and with zooming you start to get pixilation.

Jon Corbett has a great free tool to convert different mpeg formats. Found it on Betanews

If it’s less than 50 MB, youtube will compress your video for you automatically. If it’s more,