Some thinking on the never ending discussion on “push” and “pull” technology, with particular implication for mobile phones.
I keep on reading commercials and articles about the importance, for professionals, of push access to email. I’ve always thought that time and concentration are key while working. Usually we don’t have time to do things [...]
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. [...]
Ok, the Share Fair is well finished and I keep on putting pieces together after that nice, funny, interesting, free, relaxing, tiring, visionary week.
Soon, I’m going to blog some internal reflections.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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:
mDevelopment
The first way cellphones were used to sustain development is to deliver news about market prices. It is happening for agriculture [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last year we discussed about the value of the iPhone and the most common doubts were about the price of the device. Yesterday Mr jobs launched the version 2 of his jewel and ops!!!, now the price is right!! The suggested price is now 199 USD, that is to say around 130 EUR. It was [...]
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 [...]
Last year KM4Dev met in Zeist, Holland for the annual meeting as you can see in the image below and in the album on flickr.
This year, we will meet in June in Portugal, just outside Lisbon. Everybody interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing is invited.
Follow us and the preparation of the meeting on our [...]
Nancy is getting better and better on her graphical facilitation.
Have a look at this set of images about Community 2.0
My compliments!
The third and final day was crucial as well. The main task was to put together bits and pieces and design the future scenario for this large partnership on rural radio.
The day before, each group had chances to meet and discuss. Not so much as we hoped at the beginning but enough thanks to all [...]
Day 2 – Clarifications, offers/demands matching and group work
Once the preliminary activities have been done and people got a better idea of what was on the table, we moved to the second step of this meeting: the matching between OFFERS and DEMANDS.
This was a crucial point, where the evolution of the workshop was to be [...]
Day 1 Dedicated to presentations
The workshop, dedicated to “The Role of Radio in Development Practice”, has been prepared well in advance by the three agencies involved. To maximize the use of the time before the event, we decided to use a list on Dgroups: people introduced themselves and shared with the rest of the group [...]
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