What is the VOA4SD Development Tag Team?

The Development Tag Team is made up of volunteers from any field studying any subject of any age who are willing to give a few moments of their time while searching online to add tags to good information sources.

The project is being done to create a Visual Tree of topics that are easy for rural Africans to utilize when searching for information from the Rural Internet Kiosks. If you are interested please send your name and email address to crystal@voicesofafrica.org and download the Delicious toolbar on your browser.

Today in class we talked about the root causes of poverty: greed and the failure to look ahead. Our students have written about ways to end poverty through self-sufficiency by creating their own employment. Here is what our students have to say:

• Prepared by - Charo Harrison, Peter Issac, Patrick Mulei, Hamisi Juma
  

GIVING KNOWLEDGE TO OUR PEOPLE

Here is an interesting article about Ubuwiki Offline which is an intermediate technology solution for Africa where low-bandwidth and high-cost of internet make communication unaffordable for the majority. In the face of the digital divide, Ubuwiki contains a digest of information – Ubuwiki Live - to get users of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system started.

Ubuwiki Offline offers a Global Solution from Oct. 14, 2008

http://wiki.kabissa.org/web_2.0/start

So what is Web 2.0? Put most simply, Web 2.0 is the name given not to a new version of the web, but to the new way people use the web. No longer do people go on the web expecting to merely access information provided by others. Everyone can expect to comment on what they read, change it, rate it, and put up information of their own - all using dynamic and user-friendly features on the websites they visit.

Congrats to Adrienne! I know you will represent us well. We love you!