The sad story of how a light goes out…

Yesterday, I spent a long time in the train on the way to Maastricht. I’ll be making a post about that soon…
I was doing some work on the train, updating a desk study that I did about this time last year for DCO, a department of DGIS. I was reviewing the early sections where it [...]

Exciting developments for IKM emergent in West Africa?

Working Group 3 is trying to understand how to bring about a more strategic approach to Knowledge Management and what experiences have tried to reduce knowledge gaps between development actors.
In the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene sector, a number of organisations have been trying, over the past few years, to promote resource centres – independent [...]

A new journal launched October 2007

Last Friday, Mike Powell – Director of IKM Emergent – pointed me in the direction of a new online journal which looks very relevant to our work: Knowledge Politics Quarterly. It is an academic journal produced by the think-tank Knowledge Politics. It is edited by Craig Berry (Department of Politics, University of Sheffield) and will be publishing [...]

KM4D stretching its wings

Good news for KM4D as a formal discipline. Emerging from under the wings of big sisters KM and development science, it is starting to establish itself as a field in its own right. Over the past year, knowledge management for development has been increasingly making its appearance in academia. Various people* are conducting post-doctoral research [...]

Report of our first meeting

 These are the Meeting notes of our first meeting which took place on 3-4 October 2007.