Posts Tagged as ‘km’

9 November 2009

FSCA Regional Workshop in Monrovia

Almost ready to the start of the second FSCA Regional Workshop here in Monrovia, Liberia. During the third day I will spend the morning introducing Communication for Development and Knowledge Sharing to the tens of people working in the seven countries (Senegal, The Gambia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau) involved in the projects [...]

23 July 2009

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.

30 June 2009

Session on microblogging

Last week we had an introductory session about what micro-blogging is. Most of the attention was dedicated to twitter but there was also time to explain yammer and laconica.
Many different twitterers were in the room like @gaurisalokhe, @mongkolroek, @TheRoadTo and @mariagraziab, with also other friend connected.
Many questions came from the audience. The most representative of [...]

17 June 2009

Km4Dev has a new house on the Web!

I’m very happy to announce that the KM4Dev list has a pretty new house on the Web:

Thanks Lucie and Michael for setting it up!

15 June 2009

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 [...]

13 November 2008

Who is using mobile phones for development – part 2

As the online Forum on “Mobile Telephony in rural areas” is getting closer, the list of projects using mobile is getting longer and longer. I have to thanks the participants to the KM4Dev list who have been proposing examples of application they were aware of. Let’s see what’s new around the table:
mDevelopment

Launched in the late [...]

22 October 2008

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 [...]

15 October 2008

BLOG ACTION DAY: Professional football against Hunger

In the framework of the World Food Day, FAO and the European Professional Football Leagues have launched a new campaign called “Professional football against Hunger”. Roberto Baggio and Raul, two of the FAO Goodwill Ambassadors are among the promoters of the campaign.
What I think to be interesting in this attempt is the power of emotions [...]

17 October 2006

What is KM?

Some interesting video interviews collected by David Gurteen at the ECKM 2006 conference in Budapest in September 2006. The question was “What is Knowledge Management?“:

You can see the complete list of videos on Gurteen web site or on Google Video