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Comment by Sophia Huyer on September 10, 2009 at 9:51pm

Hi everyone,

I'm new to KM4D, KM and all of that....although I've done a lot of work on gender and knowledge society / ICT, etc. I'm doing some work on gender and knowledge transfer right now, which includes but is not restricted to KM. Since this is all quite new to me, I am interested to hear your views on what this is all about!

It might help me if we could clarify what it is exactly we're talking about when we talk about KM and KM4D -- I went to the FAQ wiki and this helped me to a certain extent, but it is using a very broad and layered approach. Are we talking about communication systems as they are mediated by technology? Are we talking about how women and men develop and communicate knowledge differently? Are we talking about how women's views and knowledge are reflected or not in KM systems and KM4D systems?

Looking forward to the discussions.

Comment by Bertha Camacho on September 10, 2009 at 2:34pm

Dear all,
like you all, I am interested in participating in this huddle, since I would like to explore how KS/KM can be addressed in the mainstreaming of gender in different projects. I have experience with both issues (at Skat, I work with KM/KS and previously I have worked in different project on gender mainstreaming issues), but not with both aspects together.
I am very interested to knowing more about initiatives such as the 'gender in value chain learning network' mentioned by Angelica for example, and other different M/KS initiatives related to gender. As gender is a cross cutting issue, I am sure that this huddle can certainly contribute a great deal to the other huddles.

Comment by Sophie Treinen on September 10, 2009 at 1:41pm

Yes Rosein, we should start. I just would like to know if you want to continue taking the lead. I am rather busy at the moment but think that a skype call between the two of us would be a good start. regards

Comment by Angelica Senders on September 10, 2009 at 1:32pm

Dear all,

I have, like Rosien, a general backgroun in GAD. I once wrote my Master thesis on this issue and in most of my positions in the Africa, Asia and Latin America (17 years), one of my responsibilities was gender. I have worked in many fields, but the last 10 years I am mostly involved in Fair and Sustainable Economic Development (SFED) programmes.

Since 2003 I work for ICCO in The Netherlands. In the first few years gender was not high on the agenda. At the moment I am programme specialist on capacity development within the SFED programme of ICCO. Encourage Learning and Knowledge Sharing is one of my tasks.

About two years ago we started to realize that we were quite gender blind in our economic progamme. It turned out we were not the only one and in the context of the Agri-profocus network we joined hands with other organisations and formed the 'gender in value chain learning network'. The network combined F2F activities with digital exchange of experience. The network seems to respond to a felt need and many people have joined from all over the world.

To get an impression look at the Ning and the Wiki of the network. On the wiki look at the page 'willing to contribute?'.

http://genderinvaluechains.ning.com/
http://genderinvaluechains.pbworks.com/

The challenge will be to get knowledge flowing between the members of the network. I hope to get some insights on that matter during the KM4dev workshop. I am one of the initiators of the e-collaboration network of Dutch NGOs. But I have no experience with KM4dev workshops. I have no idea what I can expect from the ways of working, e.g. what is a huddle? And will it be possible to joint more then one huddle?

Angelica

Comment by Rosien Herweijer on September 10, 2009 at 10:26am

Dear fellow-huddlers

Shall we start sharing some ideas on what we could do in this huddle. There is many different angles through which you could look at gender and knowledge sharing? What would you want to bring to and get out of this huddle?

For myself: I have a lot of more general experience with mainstreaming gender, including how raising gender issues (and diversity for that matter) can affect all kinds of other strategic issues and management processes in organizations. That would be something I can bring in.

But I never really looked at it directly from a perspective of knowledge management, so to hear about how you mainstream gender in km would be interesting.

Also I wonder if there are specific experiences abour managing knowledge about gender and gender relations: I have read about them but have not been able to talk with the people trying that hands-on.

Finally we could maybe discuss what gender has to do with all this electronic knowledge sharing and -management.

On the issue of tools: maybe someone more familiar with the km4dev toolbox can help using it for this huddle. I am very proud I managed to set up this group, but I am afraid my skills in this are limited.

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