WorldBank consultant John Daly's recent Development Gateway remarks on blogging are targetted to an audience in ICT for developing nations, his observations are just as apropos for any regional development project:

The potential of blogs for sustainable development has scarcely been tapped. Blogs provide a means by which individual citizens can speak out about what is happening in their countries, and with their governments. Blogging would seem to be a great tool for development project monitoring, helping to promote transparency in that process. Multi-user blogs would seem a great vehicle for e-learning, and for communities of practice to formulate and document their ideas.

The Development Gateway is also hosting a discussion forum on applications of social software to the DG projects.

[ Source: Blogging Feature (John Daly) ]