KM4Dev-UN

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Location: Worldwide
Members: 47
Latest Activity: Mar 10

Basic information

"In response to the many Knowledge Management and sharing initiatives across the United Nations system, the purpose of this sub-group of the KM4Dev network is to provide a forum for interested members to discuss issues, exchange resources, share experiences and plan initiatives and events on Knowledge Management within and across UN organizations globally."

This group is open to all staff who are interested in KM within UN organizations which can connect with each other through the members list and the group wall below.

In addition, we have established a mailing list on DGroups (as a sub-group to KM4Dev) which, however, is only open to UN staff members or consultants:

http://dgroups.org/groups/km4dev-l/km4dev-un

To request an invitation to this group, please send a request email to join.km4dev-un@dgroups.org including the name of your UN organization.

Resources

New avenue for rural reconstruction in India

Even in India many people do not not how an age old knowledge leads to income generation amongst rural poor.

Started by Dr. Monica Chaudhuri Jan 30.

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Comment by Amanda Cunningham on February 9, 2010 at 6:02pm: Margaret, I would be interested in finding out more about the KM project you refer to

Comment by Margaret Mottaz on January 10, 2010 at 12:52pm: Greetings everyone and all the best for 2010! Looking forward to learning more about how your organizations' KM initiatives are going. With regard to Sophie's comment, the ILO is currently evaluating a four-year KM project carried out by its child labour elimination programme (IPEC), which has a worldwide staff of about 450 operating in 80 countries. A great deal of emphasis was put on preserving institutional memory (databases, KS web platform, resource kits) because of the high staff turnover inherent in technical cooperation programmes and the need to give field staff and partner agencies easy access to information, knowledge and experience. It will be very interesting to see to what extent those participating in the evaluation think this has been useful and made their work easier.
Any other UN agencies evaluated initiatives dealing with HQ-field sharing recently?

Comment by Nadejda Loumbeva on December 26, 2009 at 3:57pm: Sophie, thanks! Your discussion idea (ie, how to share knowledge and I guess also what knowledge to share with regards to work our Organizations do in the field) is spot-on. It is precisely what the work of most of our Organizations is driven by. I guess for this to work well it would have to well integrate with the One UN Agenda. Look forward to reading others´ views on this ... Happy New Year to all from me too! Nadejda

Comment by Sophie Treinen on December 26, 2009 at 4:38am: I am very happy that we continue discussing after KM4Dec meeting in Brussels.

For 2010 I would like to share with you a new subject for our discussions:
- Knowledge sharing in the field (in projects, programmes, among UN agencies in the same countries). How do we make it work, how do we share, capture, manage this king of information and knowledge, who is in charge, how to access it, ... This will guide us on how to share lessons within our own organization and among the various organizations. Happy new year to you all!

Comment by Carl Jackson on December 22, 2009 at 5:45am: Glad to be able to join the KM4Dev-UN group. What questions is the group interested in exploring in this domain?

Comment by Alpha Grace on December 17, 2009 at 5:15pm: Greetings to you all. Let's get the ball rolling, the world is ours!

Comment by Florencia Tateossian on December 8, 2009 at 5:15pm: This is a great initiative. We could start thinking of a wide UN KM event...

Comment by Kim Henderson on December 4, 2009 at 5:05pm: This is fantastic. I have been wanting to do this for years and am glad to see it up and running even though I am just about to move out of KM to a new role working on Crisis and Gender, as many of you know. In any case I will continue to follow and contribute with interest. Once a UN KMer always a UN KMer!

Comment by Johannes Schunter on December 2, 2009 at 10:35am: Hi Stephen, I very much like your updated statement!

Comment by Stephen Katz on December 2, 2009 at 9:19am: Thanks for this initiative, which is most welcome. Some additional context suggestions for the mission statement:

In response to the many knowledge management and sharing initiatives across the United Nations system, the purpose of this sub-group of the KM4Dev network is to provide a forum for interested members to discuss issues, exchange resources, share experiences and plan initiatives and events on Knowledge Management within and across UN organizations globally.