Research Projects And Web 2.0: Challenges And Effects

There are already a few years since we heard about Web 2.0. There was a real frenzy around this new concept. In short time new terms have emerged related to Web 2.0 like Government 2.0, Research 2.0, e-Science 2.0 and Project Management 2.0. This paper aims to focus on the challenges of project management under Web 2.0, especially research projects. What is the awareness of project teams in using Web 2.0 tools? What is the confidence on information gathered with Web 2.0 tools? How will the team results and productivity be affected? These are few questions that undertake to find some hypothesis for next article with focus on Romanian research projects. The analysis needs and the paper conclusions will be based on interpretation of existing statistics and data gathering on the web.