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Sharing agricultural and rural knowledge in Africa - Addis Ababa share fair in October

Join us in Addis Ababa in October to showcase and share ways that Africa's agricultural and rural knowledge is created, shared, and put to use ....

We are looking for innovators in sharing knowledge related to climate change, land, livestock, and water ...

We are looking for experiences from the grassroots, in science and policy, and by intermediaries ...

Beyond the four themes above, there will be sessions on mobile sharing, indigenous knowledge, value chains, traduct… Continue

Added by Peter Ballantyne on August 29, 2010 at 6:31am — No Comments

Join the M&E and KM community!!!!

We invite you to join the M&E and KM community at ebpdn (Evidence based policy for development Network)

Esta subcomunidad tiene como objetivo promover que los representantes de Institutos de investigación de políticas de la región compartan sus experiencias en monitoreo y evaluacion de… Continue

Added by Clara Richards on August 12, 2010 at 2:11pm — No Comments

defining terms

When we use terms like 'data', 'information' and 'knowledge', how do we understand them. At times we use these terms alternately. How do we define each of these terms?

These days we often say we are moving from the 'information society to knowledge society', and therefore knowledge management is critical to future economy. I can see a good number of experts in this arena. would anyone please explain what exactly happens in the shift from information to knowledge?

Sanat
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Added by Sanat K Chakraborty on August 10, 2010 at 11:16pm — 4 Comments

Webinar and Knowledge-Lab August 17

Invitation for the August 17, 2010 K-NET Event :: Webinar and a Knowledge-Lab

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Added by Joel Muzard on August 10, 2010 at 6:10pm — No Comments

New handbook on monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management of public policy influence

Hello everyone! I would like to announce that from CIPPEC and with GDN´s support we have developed a handbook on M&E and KM: “… Continue

Added by Clara Richards on August 10, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

Is it possible to actually measure Knowledge Sharing?

The idea here is quite simple and related to the assessment phase of KM introduction inside any organization, as far as I understand it.
Until today I've seen various tools used by most KM practitioners to try to reply to the very basic question in a KM assessment exercise: "where does this organization stand in terms of KMS"? The tools I've seen are:

questionnaires (manual, to be distributed to a wide statistical sample)
questionnaires (web-based such as the

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Added by Stefano Barale on August 10, 2010 at 8:29am — 2 Comments

Unesco-IHE vacancy announcement: Senior researcher/programme coordinator knowledge and capacity development

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Added by Judith Kaspersma on August 5, 2010 at 3:48am — No Comments

EVOLUTION Theory of Knowledge Management vs CREATIONISM Theory of Knowledge Management

Cited from Md Santo, 2010 - http://mobeeknowledge.ning.com/forum/topics/knowledge-is-neither-flow-nor and http://delicious.com/mobeeknowledge/humansystembiology indicated that CREATIONISM (“Intelligent Design”) is the nature of KM reality. Md Santo coined the term Human System Biology-based KM for the phenomenon. The basic assumption of this… Continue

Added by Md Santo on August 4, 2010 at 1:27am — No Comments

ACORD hiring a Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management Coordinator

Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management Coordinator
ACORD
Location: Kenya
Last Date: July 31, 2010

Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management Coordinator
ACORD

Job Summary: ACORD (Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development) is a Pan-African Organization working for Social Justice and Development in Africa.

The overall Strategic Plan for 2007-2010 places emphasis on the importance of institution

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Added by Jessica Matthews on July 27, 2010 at 1:14pm — No Comments

Ashoka looking to fill Knowledge Team - Africa Position

Job Title: Knowledge Team Africa Position

Location: Arlington, VA

Brief Description: Ashoka (www.ashoka.org) is the world’s largest association of social entrepreneurs — men and women who are creating new institutions and system-changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1980, Ashoka has pioneered… Continue

Added by Aimee L. Maron on July 6, 2010 at 1:27pm — No Comments

Tweetchat today on Knowledge Management for Development

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Added by Ian Thorpe on June 29, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Managing Knowledge for the Enlightenment of Africa

Africa is perhaps the most culturally imaginative and creative region in the world. It is extremely diversified, rich in talents and ingenuity with unlimited resources and potential. It has colonized the planet and it enriches humanity through inimitable arts. Yet, one African out of two lives in dismal human conditions. And despite spectacular progress here and there, it also remains profoundly socially and culturall

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Added by Jacques L. Hamel on June 29, 2010 at 2:46am — No Comments

Updated Results from KM Survey, as of 2nd June 2010

Hello,

We want to thank everyone who has taken the survey so far, we have received over 140 reponses and hope we can reach the 200 mark by the end of this month. If you haven't taken the survey yet, please do so at:

http://www.ark-group.com/Surveys/TakeSurvey.asp?SurveyID=4MK8p53Imn93G and receive in pdf format for free:

Implementing a successful KM programme
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Added by Steven Oesterreich on June 1, 2010 at 10:18pm — No Comments

Fair Tech 2011 Service Learning for IT Professionals in Nicaragua, January 2011

We're organizing a service learning trip for IT professionals in San Ramon, Nicaragua for January of 2011. I am working with Planting Hope, a Vermont based not for profit, and we're hoping to attract IT professionals who would like to spend a week living and working in San Ramon, Nicaragua this coming January.It's a perfect time to leave the colder northern climes and share your IT knowledge with local students and participate in a couple of projects wit… Continue

Added by Paul Treadwell on May 27, 2010 at 5:07pm — No Comments

Defining the knowledge organization

Knowledge and the way it is managed is a key success factor for organizations in the current dynamic environment. Specialists including Prusak, Davenport, Senge and Bennet have contributed through their research and analysis on how organizations can evolve by managing knowledge, as well as on the
organizational factors that make the difference between success and failure

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Added by Tom Zeppenfeldt on May 26, 2010 at 6:30am — 3 Comments

Contents of social profile

Thanks to all of you who shared your work and thoughts with me on contents of "successful" social profiles. I am enclosing a document that includes the information and contents of the social profile we will create in Sharepoint. Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

Regards, Lotta

Staff profiles.docx

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Added by Lotta Adelstål on May 24, 2010 at 3:39am — No Comments

First Brown Bag Series launched at UNU Bonn

Inspired by the workshop entitled "KS/KM in a World of Change" that took place in October 2009 in Brussels, we took up the initiative to launch a Brown Bag Series at UNU Bonn.
The list of topics contains a broad variety from professional correspondence to web 2.0 including online facilitation, collaborative learning, microblogging etc.
Whilst we are still new in this field, we really appreciated the support of some experts in organisational learning using participatory
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Added by Isabel Thompson on May 20, 2010 at 8:02am — No Comments

Community Radio for Development: Community Radio for KM - 12 Community Radio have Clearance first time in Bangladesh

Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC), since its inception, has been advocating with the government and with other organizations for the promotion of Community Radio to address critical social issues at community l

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Added by AHM Bazlur Rahman on May 7, 2010 at 11:42am — No Comments

KM leaders from Russia

Hello,

I've been researching to see who from Russia would be considered to be a leader in KM on the industry side, as I would like to see if they can present at KM Asia 2010 - www.kmasia.com

Any suggestions would be most helpful.

All the best,

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Added by Steven Oesterreich on May 6, 2010 at 2:34am — No Comments

Utilizing Social Media for International Development

(This post was originally published on Engaging Development)

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

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Added by Chris Rottler on May 4, 2010 at 9:44am — No Comments