How should gun control advocates use social media?

After a period in which we used the Internet to connect online with the rest of the world, we went through a next step in which we began using the Internet to connect online with more closer communities. More recently, we entered in a new phase in which we are using the Internet to connect and strengthen our connections with these close communities, but this time, offline. More and more, the Internet offers platforms and new webs providing free or cheap services whose ultimate goal is attained offline. What is exciting about this recent trend is that by connecting the online and the offline world, people are empowered in their real lives. Thanks to the Internet, citizens empowerment is its best moment.

It was designed correctly, leave the internet alone!!!

Many are confused at why Apple doesn’t support Adobe Flash on iPads, iPods and iPhones. Steve Jobs sums it up well.

In Ghana, where people sooner buy cell phone minutes before buying lunch, one medical student from New York embarked on a mission to change the entire healthcare system with something as simple as a mobile phone.

After a decade of struggle with the irruption caused by the Internet to the publishing industry, the magazine has been able to make money thanks its 5-million readership loyal to its online version. This contrasts with other magazines business models that rely on paywalls and closed content available online.

Aventones is an online carpooling tool aiming to reduce traffic in Mexico City that presented its business model in the recent Convention of Climate Change in Cancun. One of the few green start-ups, Aventones is using social media to reduce the trust deficit in Mexico’s capital city, so commuters can feel safe and share their cars.

Crisis mapping tool,Ushahidi and the US Institute of Peace recently launched a new initiative called Universities for Ushahdi to encourage developing country students to use the platform. But is the tireless work of countless students in the US being overlooked?

The leaders of five major publishing companies are determined to prove that magazines are here to stay. Why? Because magazines, they argue, do what the Internet can’t.

SeeClickFix is an application for iPhone, Blackberry and Android that allows citizens to report public not-emergency issues to the City Hall, working like a collaborative 311. SeeClickFix fosters social commitment, empowering citizens in front of the Government. Local Governments fostering “Gov 2.0″ are employing social media and mobile technologies such this to build a more responsive, collaborative, and effective government to respond to a more engaged society with a richer civic commitment.