User:Murengawiki
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 Gideon Murenga | |
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| Employer: | EAGC |
| Occupation: | Training |
| Nationality: |  Kenya |
| Languages: | English |
| Country: |  Nigeria |
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Training and Capacity Building
Participatory
Web 2.0 for Development or Web2forDev or ICT4Dev refers to the second generation of web development and web design, characterized as facilitating communication,
information sharing
interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. It is a way of employing web services, in order to improve information sharing and collaborative production of content in the context of development work.
In this context
development actors can easily relate to other stakeholders, have selective access to information, produce and publish their own content and redistribute pieces of content released by others. They can integrate, combine, aggregate,
generate
, moderate and mediate content. In a typical Web2forDev scenario, data and functionalities from a number of free or low-cost online applications are combined together (Lambard, 2011). On the other hand, publishers and policy
