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There have been a lot of good wrap up posts of the Web 2.0 Summit. Particularly check out Read/Write Web’s wrap up, Fast Companies posts and of course Michael Arrington’s wrap up of the launchpad companies at TechCrunch.

I was interested in just how global the crowd was at Web 2.0. A quick calculation from the attendee list gives the following breakdown.

This was only for people who had a country listed. (Approx. 15% of attendees didn’t list a country). I also added a few Canadians who’s country wasn’t listed. These include speakers Stewart Butterfield, Paul Kedrosky and Don Tapscott.

I’d love to see Tim O’Reilly and John Batelle (who organized and hosted a great event) post the full demographics including the breakdown of female vs. male attendees. There was a great line up of female speakers, but I felt the percentage of women in attendance was quite low. I wonder how the attendee breakdown and diversity numbers compare to last year. It would be a interesting for conferences to start to publish their audience breakdown.

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On Tue 14 Nov 2006.

 

2 Responses to “ How World Wide was the Web 2.0 Summit ? ”

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1. Baria says:
   April 22nd, 2007 at 7:16 am

   I have been reading your blog with interest and one question keeps coming back to me. Does anyone have the faintest idea what is happening?

   It seems to me that the opening up that web 2.0 allows also means that we are diluting the essence of everything that allows us to judge good from bad. There is only one perspective emmerging - that of US based web savvy designers. But what happens when th rest ofthe world gets connected and takes over? Is the freedom we are developing going to be manipulated and turned into another tool of repression and propaganda?

   I can’t get over the image of Stalinist Russia where the truth was overturned in favour of political expediency. 1984 anyone?

   Or am I being a luddite?

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