[Summary of this blog: We know education and knowledge always act as an asset for everyone’s life. Library can do a big roll for learning. However, our farmers, garment workers and another poor service holders, labors have no opportunity, necessary education and time to access in library. For that reason, now most of them are out of modern knowledge, advantage of…

Recently in Bangladesh, some agricultural farmers showed their agitation against the government by through tons of paddy in the main road of capital city. The cause of their grief was that, they couldn’t make profit by selling paddy due to the high production costs and also excess production of paddy in this year. In last winter some vegetable farmers also through tons of…

In case this helps others, here's a blog about how I closed KMUK 2012.

http://knowledge-manager.sparknow.net/post/26485358784/getting-wet-in-the-shallow-end

I hope its of use?

Paul

Dear KM4Dev colleagues

 I wonder if you’d be interested in contributing to a comparative exercise I’m conducting on behalf of IFAD’s Independent Office of Evaluation (IOE).  They are considering how to gear up both their KM and communications efforts.  The question is, how closely do these overlap and how best do you structure your staff team so you can do a good job in both areas?

 IOE has a particular focus on sharing lessons from…

Here's an account of the swimming pool icebreaker exercise I used to launch KMUK 2012.

The significance of anti-virus cannot be rejected at any cost inside our daily lives. Nobody actually wants his / her computer system being susceptible to several PC attacks and also computer viruses for example Trojan viruses. It is because these computer infections are really harmful for the personal computer together with data which is present in all of them. It is important to understand at the same time that people cannot just stay protected from the computer infections permanently.…

Based on my experience of development organizations there seems to be a progression of four different levels to their knowledge management work, regardless of their specific approach to Knowledge Management or the methodology they use

1. Internal knowledge management – giving their staff access to knowledge in order to support them to do their jobs better or to improve organizational performance. This can include various types of…

“PLöRK brings PLay to wORK”

It is possible to change the world for a better in a playful way! At least that’s what we believe and therefore we started with a first experimental session on May 28 in Berlin. 

A PLöRK session is a 90 minutes social event with the purpose to solve a question of a peer in a playful…

Ambassador, Decathalete and Cox. Some of the 'Olympic' roles speakers at next week's KMUK conference saw themselves as performing in their businesses.

Check out this blog for more insights: Olympics, KM and the Mexican Wave.

A few weeks ago in Bogota I met a team from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) to discuss the timetable for completing the story collectors guide first conceived during the second half of 2011.

Check out CIAT's blog on the subject.

It is exciting to see how the crowdsourcing innovation works at UNDP with Rio+20 Dialogues launch,  it is time to vote on the future we want: http://ning.it/LaEZuC . I was excited to facilitate the dialogue on Unemployment, decent work and migration, there are valuable and creative recommendations... pls see below.

2 Successful Years Of Awareness Generation and Advocacy: A set of quick reflections and reviews in context to socio-economic and environment development in the Himalayan region towards ongoing climate debate, environment issues and development…

Understanding to action

Since 2010, with a larger vision to serve as link between practice, science, policy and decision making towards climatic adaptation and sustainable mountain development Climate Himalaya’s…

A multimedia information communication project that has been launched by Climate Himalaya during May 2012. The ‘Mountain Voice’ is an initiative of Climate Himalaya that captures the experiences, thoughts and opinions of people, practitioners, policy makers and researchers on various climate linked issues in the Himalayan region of South Asia.

In this the CHI team…

Explore the content as well as the context of the following links :

• http://bit.ly/IEhvLv   - “Time Line of Mobee Knowledge Services – April 2012 edition”
• http://t.co/bIHLTalC   - “Mapping the Secrets of the Universe : complementing bottom-up (CERN – LHC) with top-down (Mobee Knowledge Services) mechanism” – Have a look at the Attachment…

For some of us, KM4Dev has been an incredible source of inspiration, learning and action, whether individual or collective. Yet we have very little evidence of this.

As part of the KM4Dev action plan 2012-2013, we have a Learning and Monitoring (L&M) plan that aims at exploring what KM4Dev really provides its members and where it can improve.

This baseline survey is looking at various learning areas that matter a lot to understand how KM4Dev brings value. It…

For some of us, KM4Dev has been an incredible source of inspiration, learning and action, whether individual or collective. Yet we have very little evidence of this.

As part of the KM4Dev action plan 2012-2013, we have a Learning and Monitoring (L&M) plan that aims at exploring what KM4Dev really provides its members and where it can improve.

This baseline survey is looking at various learning areas that matter a lot to understand how KM4Dev brings value. It…

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA) ACP-EU has developed a training kit on Participatory Spatial Information Management and Communication available online and on DVD, which is intended to support indigenous and marginalised communities’ participation in documenting, representing, and communicating…