Day three of the EADI conference

Recognising multiple knowledges
Earlier today was the IKM Emergent session at the EADI General Conference. We had a run through yesterday but today was the big day…
What we were trying to do in this session was to try to present the ideas of IKM Emergent in a different way. It was not necessarily a great slot [...]

Disruptive design at EADI (Day two)

There was so much happening today at the EADI General Conference that I almost don’t know where to start.
Disruptive design
First of all, I went to visit the IKM-sponsored installation in the main hall of the University of Geneva. This is divided into two parts: firstly there is a series of pyramid shaped pillars with linked [...]

First day of the EADI General Conference

Today, 24 June, was the first full day of the EADI General Conference in Geneva. A great day to catch up with the Information Management Working Group.
In the afternoon, the Working Group held a joint meeting with Euforic in which colleagues presented 12 different information services. These information services included the DFID-funded Research for Development, News [...]

At the interface between research and practice

Today, at the KM4Dev annual meeting in Lisbon, Claudia Michel of NCCR North South, a reasearch partnership between Southern universities and Swiss research institutes, and I ran an open space session looking at the interface between research and practice.
Cluadia was particualrly interested in looking at participants’ experience in crossing this divide, noting both their questions [...]