Links: The Power of We, Europe: the Jobs Machine, New Clicks in the Arab World

Nov 12, 2006

The Power of We – Companies are using YouTube-like technology to tap the ideas and energy of employees. As more companies adopt social networks, wiki, blog, and other collaborative knowledge construction and sharing tools, it becomes ever more imperative for education to prepare students to be savvy users.
Europe: the Jobs Machine – Despite its laggard reputation, Europe continues to grow faster, and create more jobs, than America. In Europe, the shift to an information economy is driving unprecedented job growth in industries that rely on information, and in turn social networks and knowledge construction tools become critically important.
New Clicks in the Arab World – Bloggers Challenge Longtime Cultural, Political Restrictions. Tadween – the Arabic word for blogging was only coined this year, but is a reflection of the rapidly growing popularity of blogging as a way to express views in a political and cultural climate that heavily limits open discussion. It is said that the Internet by design reroutes itself around restrictions, and this is an example of that principle in action.