[WSIS CS-Plenary] FYI : incommunicado.info - site is up and ready to blog

[Liss Jeffrey]

The Canadian civil society site (up since last December) is a drupal based 
site. It is very easy to use.
You can add items and news reports.

We have rss and are working on taxonomy, as drupal search is not so great. 
(Ours does work, but even drupal developers admit it is not ideal.)
http://wsis.ecommons.ca
http://smsi.agora-electronique.ca

This is collaborative e-commons infrastructure. Please link to it, as we 
have done to everyone else we could locate.
We find that the trick is getting people to actually collaborate, not 
building the platforms and channels.
But that may be because we design and build in this area.

Cheers,
Liss Jeffrey
eCommons/agora
www.ecommons.net




>>Dear All,
>>
>>a Drupal-based site has finally been put up, very basic-yet-functional but
>>with lots of room for, well, development. So please check it out at
>>http://www.incommunicado.info.
>>
>>Right now, the setup is very basic: once you register, you can comment or
>>add to your own blog. Via a simple drop-down menu, each blog entry has to be
>>attributed to one of the topic areas so it can be included in the
>>appropriate listing. As of now, these are: ICT for Development, WSIS, NGOs
>>and Civil Society, ICT and Environment, and Post-Development as well as
>>Calls & Events (these go back to the original incommunicado-call, see site
>>for brief descriptions).
>>
>>The search function is not yet available but will be soon, same with RSS
>>feeds. Please suggest sites whose feeds you think should be available from
>>the incom site.
>>
>>I started a blog in part to test the site, not to swamp you with content.
>>But these are the kinds of references I would have included in an email
>>digest, and instead of sending out such a digest, I will simply continue to
>>add to
>>the  blog. I hope that you will not only find it useful but share
>>some of your own research, thoughts, and writing as well.
>>
>>A site like this is,
>>after all, also an attempt to implement ideas of a
>>research commons or a collective, open editorial process in a way that is
>>both practical and open to change. Incommunicado is a very very modest
>>project, but at a time when everyone
>>worries about expanding IPR regimes and
>>the 'illegal' sharing of content, it seems all the more important to me to
>>contribute to an emerging commons-based research infrastructure.
>>
>>Soenke
>>
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