[LINK] ASIA: Web 2.0 can benefit the poor

[Roger Clarke]

At 21:12 +1100 20/2/07, Antony Barry wrote:
>¿Que?

A nice plant by marketers, implementing the principle 'if no-one's 
noticing your pumped-up idea, hang it on motherhood and apple pie'.

The authors are under multiple misapprehensions, including that Web 2.0 = ASP.


>6. ASIA: Web 2.0 can benefit the poor
>
>Source: SciDev.Net
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>"The growing variety and capabilities of Web 2.0 applications can 
>benefit unprivileged users in the developing world. Two aspects make 
>Web 2.0 applications particularly suited to users in the poorer 
>countries. First, most applications are free to use. They may not be 
>as sophisticated as their commercial counterparts, but they support 
>almost all the features needed for simple or routine tasks.
>
>Second, these applications are all web-based -- users create, save, 
>and retrieve files online. Users are not confined to any particular 
>operating system or hardware. This drastically reduces the cost of 
>using applications, which can be run, for example, through a free 
>web browser and a free operating system. Users only need access to 
>the Internet to benefit from these applications."
>
>Full article: 
>http://www.scidev.net/content/opinions/eng/web-20-can-benefit-the-worlds-poor.cfm
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