I am a mathematician by training (University of Leyden, Netherlands) and an ICT consultant and web specialist by profession, and a global activist as well.
Rainbow Warriors International, of which I am founding member and president is at the forefront of implementing Semantic Web technologies to give
meaningful content to the UN ICT Taskforce's intention of using ICT to
empower sustainable development stakeholders worldwide.
Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation, based in Aruba, Dutch Caribbean, an
ICT driven organization and the Ekolibrium Foundation, based in Leyden,
The Netherlands are working out the details of a bold plan to engage
all civil society organizations in the process of embracing SW
technologies to give meaningful content to ICT as a tool for all
stakeholders.
In particular what the UN calls the Major Groups in sustainable development:
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/mgroups/mgroups.htm
The Dutch academia are at the forefront at the open access revolution
as well, acknowledging the fact that without open access to inline
journals and data/information repositories, much of the ICT tools for
empowerment phrase will remain just that a hollow hyped up phrase.
Our work hinges on expanding on open source software, open licenses
schemes and open access agreements in addition to using the Eclipse
Foundation (www.eclipse.org) framework, W3C initiatives and guidelines
and the valuable input of companies like Sun Microsystems, Sybase and
Google and many other software companies embracing initiatives to
engage non-profits in general and SW technologies.