I am attending the web2fordev conference in Nairobi hosted by World Agroforestry Center.The Web 2.0 label is now so widespread that it is increasingly difficult to define the boundaries and characteristics of the services it covers. Indeed, the success of Web 2.0 and the extraordinary expansion of users-generated content services, from blogs,wikis, google doc, google maps to the Social Networks as such as Myspace or Facebook, show that we are reaching a major turning point in the use of relational internet.
Web development always contains the community ideal. But the community - whatever it is before or through the digital exchanges between individuals - is usually considered as both voluntary and organised cooperation. In both cases, the cooperation between individuals can be qualified as strong: Common sociability and a set of roles and defined exchange modalities give individuals the feeling that they are part of the community and share a common vision. However, the success of Web 2.0 services shows that its users mobilise much weaker cooperation between individuals. Web 2.0 services allow individual contributors to experience cooperation ex post.
The strength of the weak cooperation comes from the fact that it is not necessary for individuals to have an ex ante cooperative action plan or altruist preoccupation. They discover cooperative opportunities only by making their individual production public, i.e. texts, photos, videos etc. We need to try to understand more why people are not so shy on their practises in social networks where they give a lot of personal information about them and about their tastes and to look at their strategies to have more contacts (or "friends") and to maintain and expand this network of ties.
I am attending the web2fordev conference in Nairobi hosted by World Agroforestry Center.The Web 2.0 label is now so widespread that it is increasingly difficult to define the boundaries and characteristics of the services it covers. Indeed, the success of Web 2.0 and the extraordinary expansion of users-generated content services, from blogs,wikis, google doc, google maps to the Social Networks as such as Myspace or Facebook, show that we are reaching a major turning point in the use of relational internet.
Web development always contains the community ideal. But the community - whatever it is before or through the digital exchanges between individuals - is usually considered as both voluntary and organised cooperation. In both cases, the cooperation between individuals can be qualified as strong: Common sociability and a set of roles and defined exchange modalities give individuals the feeling that they are part of the community and share a common vision. However, the success of Web 2.0 services shows that its users mobilise much weaker cooperation between individuals. Web 2.0 services allow individual contributors to experience cooperation ex post.
The strength of the weak cooperation comes from the fact that it is not necessary for individuals to have an ex ante cooperative action plan or altruist preoccupation. They discover cooperative opportunities only by making their individual production public, i.e. texts, photos, videos etc. We need to try to understand more why people are not so shy on their practises in social networks where they give a lot of personal information about them and about their tastes and to look at their strategies to have more contacts (or "friends") and to maintain and expand this network of ties.
Web development always contains the community ideal. But the community - whatever it is before or through the digital exchanges between individuals - is usually considered as both voluntary and organised cooperation. In both cases, the cooperation between individuals can be qualified as strong: Common sociability and a set of roles and defined exchange modalities give individuals the feeling that they are part of the community and share a common vision. However, the success of Web 2.0 services shows that its users mobilise much weaker cooperation between individuals. Web 2.0 services allow individual contributors to experience cooperation ex post.
The strength of the weak cooperation comes from the fact that it is not necessary for individuals to have an ex ante cooperative action plan or altruist preoccupation. They discover cooperative opportunities only by making their individual production public, i.e. texts, photos, videos etc. We need to try to understand more why people are not so shy on their practises in social networks where they give a lot of personal information about them and about their tastes and to look at their strategies to have more contacts (or "friends") and to maintain and expand this network of ties.
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