Web 2.0 - Little Innovation from Development Organisations

Why has there been so little take up of Web 2.0 technologies by development organisations such as the World Bank, Eldis and UNHCR?  Commenting on last years Web 2.0 forDev (Web 2.0 for Development) conference, Christian Kreutz (Crisscrossed Blog) is disappointed at the lack of interest from the big development organisations.   He lists a number of reasons for the lack of take up such as the reliance on software that does not support social media tools and generally a culture at odds with the participatory internet, an unwillingness to try new technologies and lack of collaboration between the organisations.  Essentially he sees the problem as 

A  will to go public with the work, knowledge and problems of development organizations. Instead, they sat around in Ghana for aid effectiveness and have achieved so little. One step would be to acknowledge that problems are too complex, open channels of organization and use new ways to work together. Being it a Wikipedia for development or different sub themes such as Water wiki. But knowledge is preserved and kept in organizations. Information sources should be combined from different perspectives, instead, each organizations has its own websites. There is not even an attempt to combine data resources between bigger organizations.

In a sense the lack of interest in innovation and use of Web 2.0 social media is indicative of the whole development culture which lacks the will to seek out innovations in development policy and projects.  It is this a lazy disinterested approach to projects which lead to failure and huge waste of funds by these large organisations.