Dear KM4Dev community members and visitors, we propose two key events in 2017. If you plan to participate on site or online, make sure to register, see detailed guidelines for each event!

2-3-4 April in Geneva 

Sunday a…

Read the inaugural edition of the FSN Network Knowledge Management Task Force Newsletter - February 2017! It includes links to relevant resources and events, interviews with KM stars Nancy Dixon and Aaron Buchsbaum, and a narrated presentation on participatory facilitation.

I've been in Khartoum. I was there as President Trump announced the ban on travellers from 7 countries which included Sudan. The impact on morale (a week after the outgoing Obama administration had eased sanctions on the country) was palpable. Bans don't hit the powerful they hit ordinary people with families overseas or like many I spoke to who visit the US for work or research.

a week on "Managing Knowledge in a Connected World"

So it was a poignant backdrop to the week…

What is knowledge Management?

It is an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing all of an enterprise's information assets. These assets may include databases, documents, policies,…

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Journalism and the Sustainable Development Goals

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A recent email exchange with Eva reminded me that I have not been updating this space with some of the relevant blogs I've written over the past few months. Rather than reproduce them in full here's three of the highlights with links in case you are interested:

“Anytime, anywhere, any device”: Working smarter in a knowledge…

Come and slideshow thru the recent events in Vienna around Knowledge Cities, Knowledge Republic, Knowledge Development Goals, Knowledge Agenda and the reinvigorated KM4Dev Core Group! Choose slideshow, relax and let yourself immerse...

The Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal was relaunched on 15 February 2016. This article highlights our expectations of the portal, and the insights we have gained redesigning and relaunching the portal. 

What is the problem?

The…

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Join our group here on the Ning, so we all know who is coming!

All information about the various events in Vienna here on our Wiki.…

Dear KM4Dev-ers,

We are excited to tell you that one of the events organised by the Sudanese Knowledge Society has culminated in a co-edited book entitled: “Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan: Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies” that came out this month by Lexington Books. The book was co-edited by Sondra Hale and myself.

The symposium that this book…

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Don't hesitate to write to km4dev2016@gmail.com with you questions.

If you like to actively contribute to preparations, programme, presence, facilitation, and more, consider to join the Googlegroup created for this purpose.

Hi all, 

I would like to invite you to an exciting event that Practical Action are hosting in London discussing South-South knowledge exchange, see details below:

South-South Knowledge Exchange – How to make it work?

Thursday 29th September

A Discussion drawing on Reflections from …

Transferring knowledge from one part of the organization to another is at the heart of knowledge management. But a general call to encourage more knowledge sharing or transfer is not very effective because there are many ways to transfer knowledge. You need to be sure that you are investing in the best method for what you want to accomplish. There are two questions that influence the choice of method.  

1. What is the transfer problem you are trying to solve? For…

Apologies for the late notice. For those of you interested in digital knowledge sharing approaches there are still a very few places left for our forthcoming workshop at IDS. 

The event is targeted at knowledge brokers, communications professionals, librarians and researchers with an interest in how digital technologies and online spaces support knowledge generation, sharing and use in the context of global social and economic development. More information and registration…

     The African Rice Center* has been very successful in transferring knowledge about how to process rice in a way that makes it more nutritious and has less breakage. In a study conducted in Benin, 92% of the 600 women farmers took up a new process for parboiling rice. That is an amazing percentage for the transfer of knowledge. But the real story is the remarkable way they accomplished the transfer.

     I should note that in Benin parboiling rice is a major economic activity and…