Agenda Amsterdam 2003

09.00-09.20 Arrivals

09.20 Welcome and opening
Julie Ferguson, IICD

09.30 Keynote Speech
Etienne Wenger, Cpsquare

10.15 Coffee/tea

10.45 Communities: some approaches and case studies

Social Capital In Networks And Online Communities: the LEAP IMPACT community (Sarah Cummings, KIT)

Network Mapping Tools for Civil Society (Richard Rodgers, UvA/GovCom Foundation)

Communities of practice: Gender and cultural issues (Jaya Chittoor, Bellanet)

11.40 Peer Assist Session: some cases

I. iTrain online (Saskia Harmsen, IICD)

II. Starting up virtual knowledge communities (Anne Hardon and Minke Valk, KIT)

III. Sustaining a community during organisational change (Dale Chadwick, One World)

13.00 Lunch

Research perspectives: inclusion through development communities

I. IT solutions for mass poverty in India (Professor Marika Vicziany, Monash Asia Institute)

II. Characteristics of building a virtual community for international women academics: the ViFu (Isabel Zorn, ViFu)

14.40

Practitioners perspectives: inclusion through development communities

I. Multi-stakeholder networking for health information development (Neil Pakenham-Walsh, INASP)

II. ICT and Changing Geometry of Information Flows within Communities (Vikas Nath, independent)

III. Focusing on diversity to enrich a community of practice: the case of the CGIAR (Monica Allmand, ISNAR, and Luz Marina Alvare, IFPRI)

15.45Coffee/tea

16.15Facilitated discussion: issues & outcomes (Lucie Lamoureux, Bellanet)

16.55Wrap-up and closing

17.00 End of meeting