Wired has a beautiful article about how public-interest initiatives can make use of Twitter, blogs, flickr and other web 2.0 tools to raise awareness and attract funding.

In this case, a Kenyan organisation in charge of managing a local animal park has partnered with a European “mentor” who assists in making technologies work for local benefit. Interestingly, this approach seems to work remarkably well.

Have a look at Kimonjino’s pictures at flickr. You may also want to follow his tweets from the African Savannah on Twitter.

What do you think, is the combination of local activists cum global supports/mentors a good model for making technologies work for local organisations in remote places?

And, in generally, what would be feasible ways to effectively connect the global community to local action, that is how can gap between facebook causes and concrete local action be bridged using Web 2.0 technologies?