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.
Posts Tagged as ‘network’
19 September 2008
New connection for the South of the world
It is called O3b and stands for other3billion: that’s to say the 3 billion people who are not connected yet to the Internet. It is a new initiative funded by Google, Liberty Global, and HSBC to build a new telecommunications infrastructure, with 16 satellites, offering high-speed, low-cost Internet connectivity to emerging countries.
The service is supposed [...]
3 July 2008
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 [...]
18 June 2008
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 [...]
21 May 2008
KM4Dev 2008 meeting
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 [...]
16 May 2008
Nancy’s graphical facilitation
Nancy is getting better and better on her graphical facilitation.
Have a look at this set of images about Community 2.0
My compliments!
30 April 2008
“The role of Radio” Workshop – DAY 3
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 [...]
28 April 2008
“The role of Radio” Workshop – DAY 1
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 [...]
12 January 2008
Mongolia and the power of human relationship
Mongolia is a very interesting country. Both on the geographical and the social point of view. Human relationships are so important there that everything relays on mutual support. Why?
Here is my explanation. The country is huge, more than 1.5 million square km (five times Italy and almost half of West Europe) while the population is [...]
25 September 2007
Web2forDev
Ok, it is now open and living: it is the Web2forDev Conference, held in Rome at FAO Headquarters, from 25 to 27 September, 2007.
The title talk about participation to support development. I’m really looking forward to see if people will focus on tools and technologies OR on the “2″ of the title, that stands for: [...]
3 July 2007
KM4DEV meeting in Zeist
Two weeks ago some of the members of the km4dev list met in Zeist, The Netherlands, for a three days workshop. I was there and it was a very interesting meeting.
People with different background and from very different contexts met and spoke freely about many different topics on knowledge management. You [...]
16 April 2007
Define your target group and its needs
Starting a new online community is a hard job. Before doing anything else, I always suggest to ACCESS your TARGET AUDIENCE. Spend your time on this exercise because it is very, very important. This is one of the key to avoid further problems. It is the prerequisite to analyze the needs of your future users [...]
14 February 2007
Editing… or morderating a network discussion?
Setting up networks is different from setting up a website. Networks focus on discussions, they need conversations and foster interaction. And discussions are very different from documents. Discussions, ideas, personal points of view cannot be EDITED. They can be MODERATED. That is to say that conversations can be directed and channeled into some lines, fueled [...]
20 November 2006
3rd Workshop on online communities
The new workshop on online communities is starting. After the last edition, we modified the structure to take care of participants’ suggestions. So the new features of the course are:
- three weeks only and less contents to read;
- more focused on the IMARK lessons;
- fewer discussions and a different set-up of the space in our [...]
