Can a Wikipedia of Water Quicken the Pace of Development

Tuesday, August 14

12:15-13:15, Folkets Hus, Room 503-4

Convenors: Netherlands Water Partnership, UNESCO Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE), IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, Green Ocean and The Movement Design Bureau

The water sector has struggled to pool its collective knowledge to share with the communities we support. Yet are “open source” projects like Wikipedia a blueprint for a new culture of collaboration in water? Could such a community build better tools and share more knowledge? Is a global, open information repository for water and sanitation an achievable and useful goal?

Moderated by Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent at the Financial Times, and hosted by Netherlands Water Partnership's Smart Water Web team, this lively panel debate will ask if open source is a lot of hype or the next engine for development.

To see the presentation from the event
: go to http://www.akvo.org/blog/?p=32