ITK Conference in Hämeenlinna

At the ITK conference, a conference mainly for (Finnish) teachers, several topics came up when we particpated for COSMOS and #NORDLET . Collaboration in gaming and social networks were extremely trendy - not new, but is has gained lots of attention - however, the global component of this seems to be still very unclear.

Good news: Open Content is a hot topic here, we saw a lot of interesting presentations and products - now it is the big question how to bring all this together - there is more need than ever for a European initiative! Lets see how the Nordic Baltic Initiative can contribute...

Web 2.0 - is it truly global?

The next generation of internet applications is discussed widely - in friends networks, in business networks, for enterprises - but this collaboration does not seem to be truly global...
Wikipedia is mainly English speaking, other networks also are mainly in English and otherwise country-specific...so where are the good examples of truly global networks and maybe even collaborative networks? Which are the aspects which make a global web 2.0 environment successful - still looking for good practises and samples!!!