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This year’s WebDiversity conference, which takes place in Paris on 21 May, is putting a spotlight on a world-changing year that has dramatically propelled the Internet, and more specifically platforms such as FaceBook and Twitter, to central stage for eluding internet censorship and spurring democratic change. Their role in WikiLeaks revelations to revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East has already earmarked 2011 as the year that social media tools have come of age. › Continue reading…

I was invited to attend Danone’s Social Innovation Lab 2010 in Paris earlier this week (known as Dannon in the United States), following an invitation by one of the attendees of the Social Innovation BarCamp which took place a week ago in Paris. › Continue reading…

Despite sweltering weather, nearly 100 people gathered in central Paris last Saturday for the first Social Innovation BarCamp in France! Everyone from social entrepreneurs to community managers came out to share their work and interest in social innovation. › Continue reading…