The term web 2.0 is quite misleading as it suggests that a new
version of the internet has been developed. In fact, nothing has
changed technically with the ‘old’ web, the term refers more to
the increasing number of tools that can be applied to the ‘new’
web. First generation internet pages are static, held on a
server somewhere and produced by someone who wrote pages in the
hope that other people would read them. But web 2.0 is dynamic:
the user can choose how the page should look and can even decide
on the content. The human side With web 2.0 people can
contribute information, provide feedback, share ideas and
connect to other users with similar interests. There are several
examples of this relevant to development organizations in ACP
countries: wikis, blogs, social networking, social bookmarking.
'A wiki is a collaborative website which can be directly edited
by anyone with access to it. Ward Cunningham, developer of the
first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the
simplest online database tha