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[Geert Lovink]

> IS any body doing work on WEb 2.0 technologies and development?  Would 
> love to hear from you if you are.

Dear Moira,

it depends what you mean with 'development'. Do you mean the official 
NGO sector and ministeries? Or do mean actual Internet users in the 
so-called former South? Brazil is an interesting case in this point. 
Slightly unexpected for early adaptors and the founders of Orkut (a 
classic Web 2.0 site, I would say), millions of Brazilians took over 
this social networking site.

I would analyse Web 2.0 from a post-development point of view, even in 
poor countries. If and when NGOs and ministeries will catch with Web 
2.0 or not is not such an interesting question. The people are so far 
ahead of them, and that's a good thing, I would say.

Best, Geert