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Promoting bottom-up information flows in international development NGOs

Dear colleagues,

I have been working with IKM Emergent on a process of research and reflection with various international NGOs called How Wide Are the Ripples. The research aims to explore and deepen our understanding of the issues involved in increasing the impact and influence of voices from the grassroots in the policy and decision making of international NGOs. This emerged from a strong shared feeling that participatory processes at the grassroots are often commissioned, paid for… Continue

Added by Hannah Beardon on December 15, 2009 at 12:20pm — 1 Comment

Lancement de la communauté francophone SA-GE sur la gestion et le partage des connaissances pour le développement

Bonjour à toutes et à tous,

Vous travaillez dans le développement et les questions de coopération, partage et gestion des connaissances, apprentissage, communication vous tiennent à cœur ? Vous cherchez des pairs confrontés aux mêmes problèmes que vous, ou qui peuvent vous donner un point de vue utile car proche de vos préoccupations ? Vous cherchez informations, outils, approches et idées sur la gestion et le partage des connaissances pour le développement… Continue

Added by Ewen Le Borgne on December 14, 2009 at 10:02am — No Comments

Disseminating Knowledge for Health on a Micro-Targeted Level

As emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs) diffuse throughout the world, the transference of knowledge, ideas and perspectives has become more seamless, instant and affordable. On the same token, however, the ability to reach the right audiences amidst all the noise is becoming more difficult.

ICTs have democratized publishing, allowing organizations, large and small, to sidestep traditional media outlets and step onto their own digital soapboxes and broadcast… Continue

Added by Chris Rottler on December 9, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

A Twestival for Education

Dear all,

Some of you may have heard of Twestival, a gathering of social media people to collect funds for charity. It is an initiative from the worldwide Twitter community with a commitment of Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC). These events explore the exciting possibilities for change and raise money for charity. Global Twestival was organized for the first time on February 12, and collected 250K US$ to drill wells in Africa & Asia and provide many villages with fresh,… Continue

Added by Christian DE NEEF on December 7, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Better Knowledge Leads to Improved Family Planning

[Cross-pollinated on the K4Health Blog during the International Family Planning Conference in Kampala, Uganda]

As the International Conference on Family Planning: Research and Best Practices gets underway in Kampala, Uganda, it’s important to remember that to increase family planning (FP) worldwide, information needs to be shared and exchanged among program managers and health service providers working on the front lines.… Continue

Added by Chris Rottler on December 4, 2009 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

Open development wiki

We're building Appropedia as a platform for those interested in open development.

A modest start page on the subject is at Open development, open aid, which points to the various related resources on Appropedia. See also open development wiki for mentions of some of the active efforts.

I've only just become… Continue

Added by Chris Watkins on November 25, 2009 at 8:00am — 5 Comments

How would you define it?

Knowledge Management is the convergence of planning, sharing, networking, collaboration, analysing and reusing of both information resources and/or intellectual capital to achieve maximum efficiency and effectiveness in risk control, process and product innovation.

Added by Alexslis N. Maindze on November 24, 2009 at 12:50pm — 1 Comment

The Turin Learning Link

A big learning event for capacity building training institutes will be organized soon at the International Training Centre of the ILO. For more info, go to www.itcilo.org/link or read a larger blogpost about it.

Get connected with Karen Moir who is also member of… Continue

Added by Tom Wambeke on November 11, 2009 at 3:32pm — No Comments

Working day in Rome on Knowledge Sharing

IDLO is hosting FAO, CGIAR, FAO and WFP for a Share Fair/KM4DEV Rome Knowledge Sharing event today (follow us on twitter #km4dev).

Poster Knowledge Sharing October 2009.pdf

Added by Samir Bejaoui on October 29, 2009 at 11:12am — No Comments

Calamansi: The Green Jewel of Nazareth

The Assistant Regional Director for Operations of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Regional Office IX, Engr. Agnes Y. Maata, presented the topic “Calamansi: The Green Jewel of Nazareth” during the Knowledge Learning Market 3 at SM Megamall, Mega Hall Trade 3, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. The session that started at 3:30pm ended at 4:00pm; Knowledge Facilitators Amina Bidin of WMCIP and Evy R. Elago of NMCIREMP on October 20, 2009 served as hosts.

She talked about… Continue

Added by Amor Grace Babaran on October 26, 2009 at 3:56am — No Comments

WASHuddle agenda

In the end we were only a small group. Too bad Shamila from Wateraid and two WSMP colleagues from Ghana didn't manage to join the event.

Here our on-site amended agenda

Added by Peter J. Bury on October 17, 2009 at 10:00am — 3 Comments

Graphic Facilitation Open Space

All right. This year's KM4Dev workshop took place. Yes, it was in Brussels (which I rather liked, despite of the cold and the rain) - fun, and stylish city. And yes, the workshop was incredible - so many interested and confusiastic people joining efforts to learn together. A real organism. There's nothing like the real thing.

On the third day, we did an Open Space. As part of that, Nancy, Binetou, Annette, Lilia, myself and a few others spontaneously huddled together to… Continue

Added by Nadejda Loumbeva on October 14, 2009 at 4:27pm — No Comments

#KM4Dev: Cynefin and dealing with complexity

[Cross-posted from my weblog]

Simple! by Peter J. Bury on Flickr

Fresh from Cognitive Edge accreditation workshops Nancy White and me did an Open Space session to… Continue

Added by Lilia Efimova on October 12, 2009 at 4:53pm — 1 Comment

My Flickr gallery for the 2009 workshop

Dear all,

please feel free to have a look at my Flikr pictures gallery and try to find you amongst the folks I managed to get on my camera.

Many thanks to all of you for this wonderful experience and, see you next year !!!

Added by Samir Bejaoui on October 11, 2009 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

KM4dev2009 FLICKR pictures

My collection is now complete.
Video's will follow soon.

Go

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bury_irc/sets/72157622409999319/show/

Added by Peter J. Bury on October 10, 2009 at 6:07pm — 4 Comments

#KM4Dev: blogging session

Pretty unexpectedly I ended up doing a session on blogging at #KM4Dev workshop. It was part of the social reporting afternoon and was supposed to provide the participants with opportunities to get hands-on experiences with various tools and actually do social reporting of the group work done beforehand.

It didn't really work that way: we drifted away from blogging as social reporting tool (I'm not surprised, but that's a topic for another post) and couldn't practice as some other… Continue

Added by Lilia Efimova on October 9, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Felicians workshop impressions on Video

See the Video

Added by Gabriela Fuerer on October 9, 2009 at 3:55pm — No Comments

Reporting out from the gender huddle...

Who is outspoken? Who is willing to learn?

Find these people, and it will be easier to do more gender-aware knowledge sharing. This is what I learnt from listening to Roselinie Murota, who works in Zimbabwe for SAFIRE, the Southern Alliance for Indigenous Resources, talking to Hannah. That's them talking on the right, and me writing it up below...

SAFIRE works on three broad themes... benefit driven… Continue

Added by Jo Lyon on October 7, 2009 at 10:00pm — 3 Comments

Social reporting using video

After some very - but very basic - basic editing, I'm just now uploading my first social reporting in the form of a video reportage of the 'get to know your KM4Dev community buddies' bingo 2009! Need to find a more serious, but hopefully shareware video editing tool, to make the video's more appealing to watch. Go to the video directly: click here.

Added by Peter J. Bury on October 7, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Some thoughts on #KM4Dev

[cross-posted from my weblog]

It’s nice to be a newcomer – you can go around, say that you are new and don’t know much and ask stupid questions. This is what I have been doing at KM4Dev meeting so far.

It’s always nice and strange to discover a network of people who do work and think on issues close to those of my own, but were pretty invisible from my perspective until now.… Continue

Added by Lilia Efimova on October 7, 2009 at 10:32am — No Comments