New, from Howard Rhein­gold:

This report and accom­pa­ny­ing graphic map are offered as resources to
the devel­op­ers, design­ers, entre­pre­neurs, man­u­fac­tur­ers, oper­a­tors,
ser­vice providers and activists who seek to use these new tools to
alle­vi­ate suf­fer­ing, cre­ate wealth, edu­cate, lib­er­ate, cre­ate and
inform.

Although we report about tech­nolo­gies, the power of these tools derives
from the social prac­tices they amplify — specif­i­cally the ways peo­ple,
machines and insti­tu­tions can coop­er­ate. These emerg­ing dig­i­tal
tech­nolo­gies present new oppor­tu­ni­ties to change the way peo­ple work
together to solve prob­lems and gen­er­ate wealth.

These tools needn’t widen the dig­i­tal divide (see Seth’s Digerati Divide), if deployed prop­erly. For an exam­ple of a well run multi-user struc­tured col­lab­o­ra­tion project, see Google in your Lan­guage.

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