Web 2.0 in Ghana’s Path to Knowledge Societies Amos Anyimadu Technology Assessment Project, University of Ghana, [email protected] www.AfricaTalks.org
Web 2.0 in Ghana’s Path to Knowledge Societies
Amos AnyimaduTechnology Assessment Project,University of Ghana,
www.AfricaTalks.org
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
DoubleClick --> Google AdSense Ofoto --> Flickr Akamai --> BitTorrent mp3.com --> Napster Britannica Online --> Wikipedia personal websites --> blogging evite --> upcoming.org and EVDB domain name speculation --> search engine optimization page views --> cost per click screen scraping --> web services publishing --> participation content management systems --> wikis directories (taxonomy) --> tagging ("folksonomy") stickiness --> syndication
A Ghanaian Technologist Reinforces Tim O’Reilly’s view of Web 2.0 versus Web 1.0
Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability
Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them
Trusting users as co-developers
Harnessing collective intelligence
Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
Software above the level of a single device
Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models
Tom O’Reilly’s Summary of Web 2.0
When will this hit e-commerce?(Score:3, Interesting)
by PacoHernandez (939349) on Monday April 03, @11:48AM (#15050600)
It's interesting that the majority of these "Web 2.0" companies are still making their money off of paid advertisements, which seems to be a very "old web" business model.
Are there any companies that are doing new and interesting things with commerce itself?
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/04/03/1121244.shtml
Web 2.0 = low-contrast pastel colors(Score:2, Insightful)
by Bloodwine (223097) on Monday April 03, @12:06PM (#15050818)
For all the talk of CSS and XHTML making content more accessible, I find it funny that color-blind people
re brushed under the rug with all the low-contrast designs most of these Web 2.0 sites are sporting.
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/04/03/1121244.shtml
Along the same line of Synergy and Proactive.. ..(Score:2, Funny)
by Arwing (951573) on Monday April 03, @12:25PM (#15051011)
For me, web is (hopefully) ever evolving, and it will just be
THE web, with no version number attached at the end.
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/04/03/1121244.shtml
So, what is Web 2.0?
• The question is the point.
• The point is not your answer.
• The point is that everyone seems to be asking this question.
• As essentially contested concepts go, Web 2.0 is not too hot to handle – over 1400 definitions of “the state” even 50 years ago.
1 Do we need a new notional contract between state, society and university in today's Africa? If we do, what are the new, big ideas?
2 What would a "Development University" in Africa broadly look like in the era of the “knowledge society”?
3 Are the steps that have so far been taken toward an African-led but also outward-looking system of global partnerships for redefining the mission of the African university proper and/or adequate?
AAU Secretariat’s Key Questions on Knowledge Societies in Africa