For me, as someone who has been trying to take knowledge management out of the commercial environment and into the development sector (specifically in the health sub-sector), KM4Dev has been a key network of like-minded individuals working in similar domains and with similar problems and interests.
Through its listserv, as an online community of practice and community of interest, through the KM4Dev Journal, as well as occasional face-to-face meetings, I have been able to meet and work with some of the top experts in this field.
The results have been a number of papers published in the KM4Dev Journal and other leading journals, input into groundbreaking knowledge management work at the World Health Organization, including resolutions taken at Ministerial level in WHO’s African Region, and a national plan for knowledge management in the health sector (in Ethiopia – a global first).
Having been with KM4Dev since the beginning, I look forward to the next 25 years with confidence and optimism.