Infostate of Africa 2009

Infostate of Africa 2009

An awesome Applabs infographic showing the African continents trends in information technology and communication.

June 17th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

OSM 2008: A Year of Edits

OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

June 15th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: open source | Leave a comment

Sharing data to improve social business

I’ve recently started following the database technology called FluidINFO.
FluidINFO is an openly writeable shared database.

Data can be dynamically organised, shared, combined, augmented and searched.

FluidINFO is conceptually simple:

Objects represent things
Tags describe data related to an object (and can optionally have a value)
Namespaces organise related tags
Permissions control who can act on what namespace, tag or value

This makes [...]

June 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: economics, open source, social production | Leave a comment