Discussion : Techniques to Employ ICT to Promote ASEAN Spirit March 18, 2009

 Social Networking Website under Web 2.0 technology is proposed as ICT tool in handling collaboration among ASEAN members to promote ASEAN spirit since:

1. Social Networking Web can accommodate every member of ASEAN as well as every member of interest group in society to promote ASEAN spirit.
2. Social Networking Web is the most popular collaborative vehicle to date that has created new ways to communicate and share information.
3. Web 2.0 is current and sustainable technology that allows communication facilitation, secured information sharing, interoperability and collaboration on the WWW.

References from Wikipedia 

Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that aims to facilitate communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications; such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

Social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.

Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people, and it now seems that social networking will be an enduring part of everyday life. The main types of social networking services are those which contain directories of some categories (such as former classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages), and recommender systems linked to trust.

Folksonomies became popular on the Web around 2004 as part of social software applications including social bookmarking and annotating photographs. Tagging, which is characteristic of Web 2.0 services, allows non-expert users to collectively classify and find information. Some websites include tag clouds as a way to visualize tags in a folksonomy.