Using a dgroup with third party online applications for a cause

Authors

  • Giacomo Rambaldi

Keywords:

knowledge management, ICT, Dgroups, PPGIS, mash-up

Abstract

This paper describes how a number of free third-party online applications have been mashed-up with the [ppgis] Dgroup in order to maximise its online visibility, functionality and outreach. The mash-up provided the foundation upon which an informal network has thrived over a period of 3 years reaching a membership of close to 1200 people scattered around the globe and communicating, collaborating and networking via the www.ppgis.net mash-up. As developer and animator of this initiative, the author describes the process undergone, strategic choices made, web applications used, and the main uses to which the core dgroup [ppgis] has been put by its members. In addition - based on members? feedback ? the author summarises their perceived impact deriving from their affiliation to the network.

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Published

2007-07-30

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2007): Stewarding technologies for collaboration, community building and knowledge sharing in development

Section

Stories

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