I would like to thank all the people that commented on my previous post titled "Another Social Network for Development Cooperation?". For me, the contributions confirmed the need for (and non-existence of) the open social platform for development cooperation organisations that I am proposing.

I will need two blog post to explain why and respond to all the comments and questions that I received:

I am receiving some interesting reactions on the launch of my idea to start developing a social networking platform for all players in the development cooperation sector.

On the Worldbank's Private Sector Development Blog, I found "an imaginary wish list of start-ups in a Development 2.0 world" (a post by Giulio Quaggiotto). One of the ideas on the wishlist is:  

One of the interesting things about social networks is that you get an insight in how people are connected with others and organized into subgroups of the total social network. Social networks make it very transparent how users are (or could be) linked to other users. These links can be made directly by the users (e.g. friends or contacts) or they can be established by the internet application based on the user generated data (e.g. people that share the same interest, location, organization, etc.). When these links and subgroups are established, the social networking application is then used to share and discuss information.