4th Session of Web for Development

November 28, 2007 in Kenya, Skunkworks Kenya, Technology by Mentalacrobatics | 2 comments

This morning I am at the Fourth Web for Development Conference at the UN complex in Kenya which goes through to Friday. Web4Dev is …

… a forum for the web community of UN agencies, and international development civil society organizations interested in using their expertise to show how the Internet can promote development.

So Web4Dev is like a BarCamp where UN and government bigwigs turn up. You have a bunch of techies doing brilliant things in techie world, you have a lot of activists, development people, concerned citizens doing brilliant things in the development sector and you throw them together and see what they come up with together. Should be very interesting and informative.

Last night a bunch of us from Skunkworks met with a group of Web4Dev delegates at Pizza Garden. It was one big idea exchange. I heard many innovative ways on how to get more people involved in our online conversation, new exciting things you will soon be able to do with RSS, cooking with grandmothers! Oh and I got to mess around with an iPhone for the second time in 4 days.

Today’s programme at web4dev is full of the usual opening ceremony formalities and expert panel discussions. Tomorrow we dive into the code and projects.

Aside:
Apparently the UN complex in Nairobi is actually in Italy!


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  1. Jeff’s avatar

    Jeff on December 3, 2007 at 2:31 am

    Hi,
    Great contents.The UN Kenyan complex to be in Italy! That kinda shocked me at first.But then..what is not possible when all is said is that Africa can’t handle this…

  2. JKE’s avatar

    JKE on December 3, 2007 at 4:09 am

    With all the troubles I had with my N95 lately, I wouldnt be wondering about you going for the the iPhone instead :-)