The Internet is constantly evolving. At the beginning, the internet was an addition to the already well-established group of broadcast media platforms. Essentially, a one-way platform. In recent years, a new generation of internet tools such as wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, tagging have been developed, enabled people to take greater control over ‘their’ internet, allowing for greater knowledge sharing and greater collaboration opportunities. Responding to these exciting new developments, in October 2007, IICD co-organised the first Web2forDev Conference in Rome, where researchers, development professionals and field experts – and many ‘geeks’! - gathered together to share their experiences on the use of these new tools and collaborate on how to adapt them to enhance development activities.

More information: Web2forDev - Participatory Web for Development