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Circling the point: From ICT4D to Web 2.0 and back again

By Anriette Esterhuysen for International Institute for Environment and Development

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 30 July 2009

In a new publication “Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development”, APC’s Anriette Esterhuysen explores the circular relationship between information and communication technologies for development and Web 2.0 for development, and the assumptions about the “quick fix” that ICTs were expected to provide. Full article at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iiedpla/pla/2009/00000059/00000001/art00012

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