Internet and the new way of thinking

It’s a long time I have the impression that my mind is changing the way it “works”.
In other words, I feel like the tools I use to do my job, and Internet in particular, are modifying the way my mind process information and manage knowledge. So, reading, writing and, consequently, working approaches have been reshaped. [...]

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.

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 [...]

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!

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 [...]

Rome group of KM4Dev met yesterday

Yesterday the Rome group of KM4Dev met for the second time since January ‘09, when the idea was launched during the ShareFair 09.

As you can see for this picture everybody enjoyed the meeting and the idea of creating a new group.
The main topic debated was: CMS implementation and related training needs. The discussions [...]

Why local content creation is so important for farmers

Interview during the MobileActive 2008 World Summit (Johannesburg, South Africa) with Mary NAKIRYA, Program coordinator at BROSDI, Busoga Open Source & Development Initiative, in Uganda.
Mary explains how the CELAC (Collecting & Exchange of Local Agricultural Content) project enables farmers to voice record their own innovative techniques and how they disseminate their experiences with radio/CD players [...]

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 [...]

Writeshop on Video for development

These days FAO is hosting a very interesting writeshop about how to use Video for development. Introducing the event, the organizers declare the objective to:
document experiences and provide guidance to readers on the application of video for rural and agricultural development
So FAO, CTA, gtz and the University of Wageningen, gathering experts in Rome, want to [...]

Google and knowledge management

As described in a post on TechCrunch called “Is This The Future Of Search?” and as appearing in this Video proposed by Adrian Pike, Google is getting closer and closer to amplifying its core activities, the Search, with some Knowledge management flavor.
As you can see from the image above, this approach will offer users the [...]

Impressions after the KM4DEV 2008 meeting

The meeting is finished and we are back in our offices. Obviously everything changes after 90 people gathered for few days to discuss and share what they do everyday.

Now the network is definitely enlarged, the experience is deeper, the material shared is a ton, the fun was great and, more than everything, the feeling and [...]

Km4dev 2008 started in Lisboa

The annual KM4DEV meeting just started in Lisboa today with a preliminary day dedicated to introductory activities about the group and the theme of KM. Read more in the km4dev 2008 meeting blog and more than that have a look at the pictures in the km4dev group on flickr. Pretty soon, some videos will be [...]

FAO HLC and the attitude to share

FAO is doing a huge effort to produce and distribute a long list of content about the actual High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy.
The website is a good channel to be virtually and ideally in touch with the event: the video, the pictures, the speeches and other material are [...]