Impoverishing a Continent: The World Bank and the IMF in Africa

Having let users collect Web information in Semantic Web form and save it for themselves, we next consider how to enable them to share that information with one another. We again apply our philosophy of lightweight interactions in this matter. When the user explicitly publishes an item, its properties (the RDF subgraph starting at that item and stopping at non-bnodes) are sent to the Semantic Banks that the user has subscribed to. The user does not have fine-grained control over which RDF statements get sent (but the items being handled are already of possibly much finer granularity compared to full...