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Online tools for project management

Friday, 05 February 2010 09:16

Online project management tools enhance productivity and transparency. Project management can easily become chaotic and not very efficient whether you are part of a team or of an organization. If you were planning to enhance remote collaboration, an Intranet or document management system was so far a good choice. Online project management tools go beyond that and allow decentralized collaboration between co-workers, thus project planning and implementation get more transparent and productive.

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A starter for mobile phone services ...

Friday, 22 January 2010 10:22

Throughout the 3 days of CTA’s 2009 ICT Observatory , mobile services were discussed from many different angles. The enthusiasm for mobile phones is great, but it seems that a breakthrough and massive adoption of mobile services is yet to come. Nevertheless, in comparison with personal computers, mobile phones will still make a big difference, particularly in developing countries. Why is this?

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The Flip Side of Web 2.0: Privacy

Thursday, 17 December 2009 10:43

In this site we are promoting innovation with passion in the context of the participatory web, but at the same time we would like to call the attention of web 2.0 enthusiasts on a number of challenges. To name a few, the social web may influence promote or harm your reputation; when acting online your privacy should dealt with the utmost attention, In and era of the real-time web, one could easily face greater information overload, and the social web could turn, in some cases, into a hatred web. Therefore, we have decided to publish a series of short articles dealing with the 'dark side' of Web 2.0. This first post deals with the issue of “privacy”.

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The other side of Web 2.0: People’s online reputation and identity

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 15:53

As private and professional life are increasingly moving to the Internet – particularly through online social networks – each user creates a cyber-identity with variable levels of details and ability to control its use. It becomes increasingly important to care for one's reputation on the Internet because of the far reaching effects it could have. To recover a once failed reputation is quite difficult. This is a common lessons learnt by individuals and companies.

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Proud to have mastered Web 2.0

Wednesday, 09 December 2009 12:49

"Today we are proud, for we have managed to sit in front of a computer. We have braved our fears and we have succeeded. We have demystified this tool, which we thought was mainly reserved for intellectuals." There was a feeling of overwhelming pride at the close of the training workshop held from 27 April to 8 May 2009 in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). Attending the sessions were 26 rural women who gathered from Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Niger to master the main tools offered by Web 2.0.

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