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OneWebDay

"OneWebDay is one day a year when we all—everyone around the physical globe—can celebrate the Web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities."

In honor of OneWebDay, here are a few stories from the TP Wire Service, posted this week, that show the kind of impact the web has, and might have in the future, on our lives.

Jobs
The Jobs of Web 2.0

Communication
Why Fly When You Can Web Conference?

Education
Windows HS: Microsoft designs a school system

The Future
Recognizing Tomorrow's Hot Ideas Today

The Now
Here are two very innovative ways of chronicling your life:
Waymarkr
Umbrella Photo Browser

Shelley Dolley posted this on 09/22/06.

Comments

Dear Miss Shelley Dolley:

Yes, internet change humanity in a lot of ways for better. We must celebrate it.

Nevertheless it is incredible that in the year 2006 after all this technology and developments there are people that:

1.- Don't have something to eat for today.
2.- Don't have electricity.
3.- Don't know nothing about telephones, celulars or the internet.

That is really really unbelievable.

Hopefully all of us can use internet to reduce poverty and create opportunities for everybody.

The World is connected, now we need to help a lot of people to get connected.

Best regards

Juan Miguel Robles Vargas
General Manager
DEISA
Guadalajara, Mexico

Posted by Juan Miguel Robles at September 22, 2006 12:12 PM

Hi Juan
Thanks for commenting. I agree with your first point - I find current world hunger levels tragic. What's amazing to me is that despite the lack of traditional infrastructure, people are finding their way to the internet in developing countries. That's why I love this piece about mobile phone usage in the developing world:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/11/nathan_eagle_kenya_a.html
People are more connected than we might assume, despite the lack of other necessities.

Posted by Shelley (Dolley) at September 25, 2006 8:22 AM