Abstract
This brief paper describes a range of facilities and new developments in Web-based and Internet services. While many of the applications are being used for publishing, dialogue, research, and feedback in development, the question still remains: how profoundly is the development of communications, and in particular the Internet, changing the international development community and the way in which it works?
Notes
1. RSS: Really Simple Syndication, a method for sharing the latest information from a website with users who are using news aggregators to read information posted on the Internet. A news aggregator is a piece of software that enables syndicated content to be put together and displayed in one forum.
2. The making of the Oxford English Dictionary is recounted in Simon Winchester (1998): The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness, and the Love of Words, London: Viking.
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Chris Addison
Chris Addison works with CommUniq.org, which focuses on short-term consultancies for development organisations, building, developing, managing, and evaluating Internet-based services.