Thursday, March 26, 2009

The next Web of open, linked data


20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
Keywords: "Raw Data Now", "put your data on the net", "dbpedia chris bizer fu berlin"

Rethinking Poverty



The catchphrase goes, "Make poverty history." But how? These speakers' innovative ideas may convince you to forget the traditional models -- grants, aid, charity -- and consider business, technology and trade instead. read more