Much attention has been given to the potential of technology to connect, empower and accelerate movements. Less attention has been given to the fact that technology also empowers the adversaries of these movements.
Online collaboration is simply getting stuff done over the Internet, and online collaboration tools, all of them, have some means of keeping people connected, getting them the stuff they need, and sorting out what to do next.
During the past year, Indaba has moved from a good idea to a field-tested tool with strong user validation.
Alexandria had a good run — some 700 years as the center of scholarship in the Western world — but it didn’t last. It was not the books that failed. It was the ideas.