Communties of Practice

Some notes taken during the meeting with @Nancy to talk about Communities of Practice last week at IFAD with @Gauri, @Roxy and @Michael.

Rural Radios at IFAD Community Driven Development Seminar

Last week IFAD organized a  seminar on Community Driven Development (CDD) and we thought Rural radios could be a very important issue to raise while talking about the way communities can be empowered.

@NancyWhite and the other facilitators chose the following ways to run the workshop:
* Chats Show and Tour of Exhibit during Day 1;
* World [...]

Convergence is almost here, somewhere!

IFAD organized an interesting workshop to learn more on the results of the First Mile Project. I really suggest to read here the details of the project because the methodology is quite interesting.
One of the aspects I found particularly interesting is the fact that the whole activity started on a KM project called LinkingLocalLearners, above [...]

Using Radios to support Rural Communication

During the Share Fair 09, I had the pleasure to facilitate an interesting session called  “Using Radios to support Rural Communication“. The session was about three main applications of radio in rural development contexts:

Rural and Community Radio,
Educational Radio, and
Radio for promoting good farming practices.

The Session, followed by some 20 people, proposed a first round of [...]

Prodding from the Share Fair 09

Thanks to Nadia Manning-Thomas, my friend in the KM4DEV list, for this interview to Geoff Parcell, who opened the Share Fair 09 with his keynote.
When asked about the highlights of the Fair, Geoff, who is in charge of the knowledge management for the WHO, UNDP, the World Bank and the Swiss Development Agency, noted:
“An additionally [...]

Share Fair 09 just started

The Fair is started at the end after so much preparation and it’s seems to be quite successful until now. The official ceremony was full of people and the atrium at FAO is a great place to meet people and talk.
I’m confident the event can be interesting even if many people in the buildings are [...]

Preparing for the Share Fair ‘09

Oh yes, I’m back and I’m very much involved in the preparation activities of the Share Fair 09 that’s going to being held at FAO next week. I’ll blog soon about it.

My schedule foreseen:

the facilitation of the session called “Using Radios to support Rural Communication“,
the participation to the session on “Mobile telephony in [...]

Share Fair 2009

A nice briefing session started today the “public” activities of the Share Fair 2009 that the Rome based UN organizations (FAO, IFAD, WFP, CGIAR, ICT-KM Program and Bioversity International) are preparing for late January 2009.

Gauri and Steve introduced the event, the basic principles and the collaborative spirit that are behind it. Now all departments and [...]

Who is using mobile phones for development

Before the summer, I was looking for examples on the use of cellphones for development and I got plenty of them in a moment!
Here is just a short list of the first examples I found:
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The first way cellphones were used to sustain development is to deliver news about market prices. It is happening for agriculture [...]