Moving beyond conflict

Right now in Cape Town, the Development Marketplace is holding the first of a new generation of DM activities—an Innovation Fair on Moving Beyond Conflict tied to the WDR 2011 and drawing on a pool of innovative solutions discovered during an on-line competition last month.  It registered 2,000 users, producing 223 projects from 40 countries—many of them focusing on the use of new technologies for preventing or overcoming conflict.

You can follow the action and join the event virtually through this website: http://innovationfair.ning.com/

	Moving beyond conflict—online and offline.

Since its launch on April 10^th, the site has been joined by over 90 members sharing their thoughts using blogs, photographs and videos.

The conversation has also kicked off on twitter, as participants have been eagerly exchanging tweets using the #innovFair tag. For example, Rene Parker, an advocate for using social media to keep youth in South Africa out of gangs, twittered about how great she felt to see so many women at the event!