Web 2.0 for development

<p>Participatory Web 2.0 for development (in short Web2forDev) was a term coined around 2007-2008 to describe new ways of employing legemvweb services, in order to improve information sharing and collaborative production of content in the context of <a href="/facts/Development_aid/0FQxWKfK">development</a> work. Emerging developments in participatory Web and user-generated content platforms were seen to create conditions by which actors in development could easily relate to other stakeholders, have selective access to information, produce and publish their own content and redistribute pieces of content released by others. At this time, new social tools, such as wikis, blogs, and other user-generated content platforms, were first being considered for their ability to help development actors integrate, combine, aggregate, generate, moderate and mediate content. In a typical Web2forDev scenario data and/or functionalities from a number of free/low cost online applications are combined and served as <a href="/facts/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid)/gn6mpfH9">mashups</a> thus ensuring a wide range of online services at low cost. The term is no longer used in the <a href="/facts/Development_informatics/m1FpDye3">development informatics or ICT4D</a> fields.
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Web 2.0 for development