Here's some good news:  Boston's bid to host the 2006 Wikimania conference has been accepted!

This means that next summer, folks from all over the world who care about using the internet collaboratively to aggregate knowledge for the public interest will be converging here in Massachusetts.

I see this as highly significant for our region's nonprofit and philanthropic organizations.  As I have pointed out, perhaps with tiresome repetitiveness, Boston has an impressive track record as a hub of innovation, and yet a significant nonprofit digital divide persists here.  This is an opportunity for local nonprofit and philanthropic organizations to cultivate some new ideas and relationships that can help address this problem.

Kudos to Sj, who has done most of the hard work in organizing the Boston bid, and to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, which has taken the lead as a local institutional sponor.