KM4Dev Addis Ababa & Ethiopia

If you join this group you might be interested in joining us physically on 26 January 2012 at the ILRI campus: http://www.km4dev.org/events/km4dev-addis-ababa-ethiopia-first-ever...

There is change - a new assignment in Addis - and there is continuity - being a member of km4dev, now for more than 10 years. Looking forward to meeting you! Manuel 

Notes from first get-together (26 January 2012)

A small but focused group of 14 of us gathered on that day at the information centre of the ILRI campus to:

- Find out who is part of this group;

- Exchange some ideas about recent work in the area of KM/Comms;

- Explore everyone's expectations regarding this group and how we wish to communicate among ourselves.

- Identify some ideas for the next get-together.

Who is part of this group? Participants to this discussion: Gashaw Kebede, Metadel Lemma, Fanos Mekonnen, Liya Dejene, Zerihun Sewunet, Abenet Abowork, Abeba Desta, Bezuwork Mulat, Tigist Endashaw, Fitsum Tesfaye Habtemariam, Mamusha Lemma, Mintesnot Kasa, Tsehay Gashaw, Ewen Le Borgne.

Exchanging ideas: We briefly shared some feedback on a) the ILRI annual partnership and communication meeting which just finished and b) some feedback about the results of the Web2forDev training which had taken place a few months back.

Exploring what we expect from this group: A short brainstorm session in small groups raised the following expectations:

• Our vision: KM as development and economic driving force for Ethiopia;
• Value expected from this network: better capacity, motivation, shared knowledge, attracting more people to KM;
• Having a group of peers: establish a professional association for KM4Dev; creating links and networking with other orgs that work on KM; bring together more KM experts; a professional network and individual contacts; face-to-face meetings;
• Capacity development:  create capacities to build our own capacity on KM (e.g. use of social media); come up with e-learning facility on specific tools and approaches etc.; Short trainings;
• Knowledge sharing on ideas, tools and approaches: Sharing experiences and innovate ideas; knowledge sharing with other countries from the global KM4Dev community; sharing and learning platform on KM4Dev tools and approaches; share and have a practical experience on social media tools;
• Reach out a wider audience and engage local institutions in KM work;
• Conceptualizing KM for development; 
• Convincing about KM for devevlopment: motivate knowledge sharing; offer a platform for advocacy on KM;
• Activities expected: mentoring, communicating, short trainings, socializing, meetings.
• Products expected: publications, websites, e-learning; discussion forum.

How we wish to communicate among ourselves:

We listed a few tools we could use and indicated which tools we'd like to use to communicate as a group.The result is the picture below.

We agreed to use this Ning group to inform everyone about upcoming meetings/get-togethers and to report results of the discussions. For ongoing discussions between meetings however we will set up (Liya/Ewen) a Facebook group. We also agreed that this group ought to offer opportunities to try out new tools and we will explore other platforms in the future so this might not be the final set of platforms we use.

Tsehay gave the example of Yammer but the  idea that a KM4DevAA group would be hosted on the ILRI Yammer account felt too biased so we discarded it. 

Next meeting: to be defined but end of April

We agreed that a quarterly get-together would be good. The next one is yet to be planned (Ewen) but will happen again at ILRI, before we perhaps rotate the KM4Dev meetings at different locations. 

On the menu for the next meeting: 

• A brief introduction to social media and hands-on session on various social media (Yammer, Twitter, blogs, wikis, delicious, slideshare, FlickR) - Zerihun and Teshay will prepare this);
• A mapping of all ICT and KM projects in Ethiopia (Metadel and Fanos will prepare this);
• A conceptual discussion about 'what is knowledge management for development' which Gashaw will prepare.

The tools we feel comfortable using:

Folks, don't forget to RSVP our next conversation: http://www.km4dev.org/events/km4dev-addis-ababa-ethiopia-take-2 

Hope to see the same group and others join :) This is fun and focused!

Duration of our get-togethers...

Our little inquiry is bringing so far the following results: 

- 1.5 h preferred by Hermella, Fanos, Abeba, Ayele

- 3h preferred by Mekiya, Sacha, Gashaw, Elias

- Doesn't matter: Tigist

The idea of parallel sessions also sounds good to most. 

Where do we go from here? Perhaps 2h and parallel sessions?

Prefer 2 hours Parallel sessions. 

Whatever is suitable for you guys!

I also prefer the two hours parallel session.

I am new to the group and don't know the past trend. So i prefer the moderate 2 hours

I think 2 hours is great!

I go for the 2 hrs session, too.

Colleagues

Next week there will be a Food Security and Nutrition Network Knowledge Sharing Meeting in Addis Ababa

If you have an interest in knowledge sharing/knowledge management and/or ICTs in Agriculture, please join us at ILRI on Friday 8 June; from 1500-1700; for an informal exchange and meet up.  The main organizer of next week's meeting - Joan Whelan (Knowledge Management Senior Specialist, Food Security and Nutrition Network/TOPS Program) - will join us and share perspectives.

Please confirm if you will attend to Ms. Abeba Asmelash (a.asmelash@cgiar.org)

If you know any colleagues working on these issues, they are also welcome to join!

Best regards

Peter

Ok so we get on with a 2-hour parallel session as most people are pleading for it. Thank you all and see you on 29 June from 3 to 5 pm at SNV.

Hi all, I posted a vacancy announcement for a National Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Development Coordinator in the Integrated Seed Sector Development Programme (Ethiopia). Deadline is 2 August 2012 (safest to have application in by Augsut 1)

http://www.km4dev.org/group/km4devjobscentre/forum/topics/ethiopia-...

Dear Team,

is there any information(when & where) regarding the upcoming KM4Dev Addis get-together which was tentatively planned for this September during our last get-together?

The notes from the last meeting (21 Sept) are now online at http://www.km4dev.org/events/km4dev-addis-ababa-ethiopia-take-4 and the next meeting is scheduled for Friday 14 December. 

Please RSVP that event, thank you :)

Hello folks! 

Don't forget to RSVP for a fun and useful event this Friday at ILRI: http://www.km4dev.org/events/meet-up-with-km-comms-folks-from-cgiar....

We look forward to meeting you there and then! 

The get-together with Hermella, Gashaw and Fitsum was very nice! And as promised, hereby the link to the wiki of our event: http://kmc4crps.wikispaces.com/agenda

Particularly under the knowledge sharing and learning session there were a couple of presentations by the AAS (Aquatic Agricultural System) that might be useful for this group too.

Reminder: Next get-together 14 December

http://www.km4dev.org/events/km4dev-addis-ababa-ethiopia-take-4-1

RSVP there please :)

Reminder: Get together over lunch at Kategna, behind Bole Medhanialem Church. Tomorrow (Saturday, February 23) at 12:00 pm (noon). If you haven't already, please RSVP by sending an email to hermyster@gmail.com

Next get-together on 21 June - RSVP at http://www.km4dev.org/events/ethiopia7

Thank you and see you there :)

And another one that would be very interesting for those of you who can make it this week: http://www.km4dev.org/events/meet-the-ciard-and-cta-crowd-at-the-il...

Hello group,

Good to see you all. joining you feels great. 

See our Facebook group for an invitation to hook up sometime this weekend or an evening next week :)

“Share” Is The New “Save.”so happy to join this group.

Hi everyone,  Nice to meet you all!

Hello all,

I would like to propose hosting another KM4Dev Addis/Ethiopia gathering on Friday 3 April from 2 to 5pm. This will be an Open Space - so you can bring your topics then. No particular presentation will be given. There is one thing I would like to mention to all of you then, and perhaps we can also discuss the future of this group, as it shows that there are serious sustainability issues... 

Anyhow, I hope to see you all on Friday 3 April and I will circulate an invite etc.

Cheers,

Ewen

Btw, someone lost their glasses case. Let me know if you are the one and tell me the brand and colour and it's yours ;)

Good to read Ewen about Dawit and Serihun being interested to interact with the Core Group on future joint initiatives!

Have you all discovered this new initiative yet?

I joined in order to keep in touch directly with the Ethiopia KM4Dev chapter. Keep up the good work :-)