COOPERATION 2.0 is an international space for meeting, reflecting and building awareness about the need to promote and integrate the use of ICT in development policies, programmes and projects. In its first edition, it tried to set a national and international reference for ICT and networked Development Cooperation. It facilitated the exchange of experiences among cooperation agents to generate greater knowledge about ICT applications in the work of Cooperation, granting visibility to experiences under way.

The second edition, Cooperation 2.0 2009, follows along in continuity and will focus this time on the issue of "Innovation". One of the event's topic is Knowledge Management.

See http://www.1arroba1euro.org/encuentro2009/?q=node/37

Ofok Human Development Initiative: Ofok’s dedication to ICT (Information and Communications Technology) development and entrepreneurship ensures that today’s young people become the leaders of tomorrow by attaining the right leadership skills and the latest knowledge of technology. Through our Human Development Initiative, we invite all NGOs and educational institutions to join us in making this vision a reality. Click on the title for more information or here

The Knowledge Assessment Methodology (KAM) is an interactive benchmarking tool created by the World Bank's Knowledge for Development Program to help countries identify the challenges and opportunities they face in making the transition to the knowledge-based economy.

The KAM consists of 83 structural and qualitative variables for 140 countries to measure their performance on the 4 Knowledge Economy (KE) pillars: Economic Incentive and Institutional Regime, Education, Innovation, and Information and Communications Technologies. The KAM also derives a country’s overall Knowledge Economy Index (KEI) and Knowledge Index (KI).

See KAM booklet:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTUNIKAM/Resources/KAM_v4.pdf

"This handy booklet will provide you with some guidelines and information to prepare and run a large online event, be it a meeting, a conference or a seminar. The recommendations in the following pages are the result of experiences gained from a number of CGIAR online events run by the Gender & Diversity Program and the ICT-KM Program."

"Collectively, these events represent a wide range of purposes and functions: e-consultations that saw diverse communities sharing opinions around proposed goals; training programs; knowledge sharing and distributed board meetings."

Guidelines for Online Events

"Knowledge has become one of the key factors for the success of an organisation. In many organisations, the knowledge gained through daily activities is untapped and gets lost when people leave. The value of knowledge in an organisation grows when it is shared between its staff. But how can you create conditions and systems that foster knowledge creation and its use in day-to-day activities? MDF Training & Consultancy has developed this course to help you improve performances of your organisation by effective use of shared knowledge."

Knowledge Creation for Development course

Web Tastings is a blog about Web 2.0 and knowledge management for agriculture and rural development which reflects on the usefulness and impact of the social web and its tools and approaches on development cooperation. You will also find reviews of tools, books, events and other noteworthy news.

Web Tastings

Bioversity International, the CGIAR ICT-KM program, FAO, IFAD and WFP are jointly organizing a 3-day event entitled Knowledge "Share Fair" for Agricultural Development and Food Security to be held at FAO Headquarters on 20 – 22 January 2009.

The Share Fair will provide an interactive experience, allowing staff and our Rome-based constituents to:
* share and learn from each others good practices;
* experiment with tools and methodologies for knowledge sharing;
* create linkages and networks for future collaboration between the organizations; <BR* develop ideas to support and enhance knowledge sharing within and across our organizations.

See:

Knowledge Share Fair

"The Knowledge for Poverty Alleviation (KPA) framework is a development model that is built on two recent, powerful development paradigms, Knowledge-Based Management and Sustainable Development. The KPA framework was initially proposed by CCLFI.Philippines, a leading knowledge-based management and organizational learning advocacy and service provider in the Philippines, and is now being applied by the Peace and Equity Foundation, which is a leading loan and grant-giving institution in the Philippines. Developing the KPA framework is a collaborative work in progress."

See:
KPA Framework

This issue of the KM4D journal aims to showcase studies of knowledge management for development strategies, and how these facilitate and catalyse reciprocal learning among different types of development organisations -- NGOs, bilateral and multilateral organisations, community-based organisations, etc -- in different locations, both North and South.

The submission deadline for the title and abstract is 15 September 2008.

Call for papers

Article by Nancy White and Josien Kapma about the future of organizational learning: "from workplace courses to global conversations". It was published in the Dutch magazine "Leren in Organisaties". The KM4dev community is featured in the article.

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