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There has always been knowledge available in our communities. The challenge is to give people a tool to make that knowledge available to the rest of the world...promote those tools and teach people how to use them. Another challenge for countries like Macedonia is to get teachers/professors use wiki-like tools in their everyday work and also foster the usage of wiki-tools by students. Again how to promote wiki as an educational tool in a society where the internet and ICT are considered very"difficult, complex and sophisticated" remains the biggest problem. The way knowledge is accessed has changed, tools for learning and accessing knowledge have changed, everything has changed, but in developing countries we use the same tools, same methods as we used them 50 years ago...
Some of the problems NGOs must address in developing countries and countries with economies in transition, :
1. Lack of knowledge on how to use technologies
2. Culture of secrecy
3. lack of participating/civic/democratic culture
4. lack of trust in institutions
5. access to techology is expensive, digital divide
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