I've written up a document on choosing a platform for telecentre.org. Telecentre.org is a project of Canada's International Development Research Centre, jointly funded by IDRC and Microsoft, aimed at linking up all the telecentres around the world.

The vision is for a distributed network of web sites that share content via RSS and tags, and we concluded that Drupal is currently the best option for this purpose. But we considered a number of options before making this decision, which I have documented in a short document that is available online or PDF form. It may be useful to others who are working on similar visions of multiple sites that work together to share content and build community.

In the course of working on this project I've met with others who are working on distributed network projects -- but would love to hear from more. If you are working on a distributed network project, please let me know; I'm hoping to organize a community of practice/e-mail list so we can share ideas and strategies.

For more background on telecentre.org see my blog post.