For make no mistake, this is all my doing. Since I first made my stand against bottled water in 2006 – incorporating penalty points for serving it into my restaurant ratings, vilifying its producers and mocking its consumers – consumption of the stuff has plummeted (probably). Far more restaurants than ever before offer tap water first and then bottled only as the Bling-Bling alternative. Punters who opt for the Perrier or Badoit now do so with a blush and an apology to diners at the next table.

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Open Source as official development aid in developing countries?

What effects does web2.0 have on development aid?

Knowledge management systems, which facilitate the aggregation and dissemination of a company’s collective intelligence, provide numerous benefits, including enabling innovation and improving process efficiency.

But successfully implementing these systems can be a challenge.

While technology advances have eased some of the installation and integration hurdles, Jim Murphy, AMR’s knowledge management research director, says companies looking to do wide-scale deployments still face scalability and performance issues. And, as with other information technologies, user adoption presents the biggest test.

Baseline and it sister publication, CIO Insight, have done several knowledge management case studies over the years. Here they invoke five that show how organizations of various shapes and sizes overcame the deployment challenges they faced.

Among those, the World Bank is one of the biggest World organisation working in Development: the entire article here