Three new contributors…

Have just added three new contributors to this blog: Joitske Hulsebosch, Sibrenne Wagenaar and Mark Turpin, who are going to be doing one of Working Group 3’s studies on monitoring and evalaution of knowledge strategies. I had thought about making a separate monitoring and evaluation blog for IKM but this is, perhaps, something for the [...]

WG 3 theoretical framework and the O word

In the recent workshop in Cambridge, we WG3 members had an interesting discussion that took a lot of time in the morning of our third and last day, and it all started as we were thinking:
Now that we know who we are, what others are doing in IKM Emergent, what multiple knowledges could mean and [...]

Horses and not giraffes…

One of the many issues that we discussed at Cambridge during the IKM Emergent meetings was the name of IKM Working Group 3, currently ‘Management of knowledge’. The two options we considered were either changing the name or setting it, more firmly, in the context which we are using it. With this background, I just had [...]

Defining what is relevant research… and how to build knowledge sharing in research

This is a message posted on the KM4DEV mailing list recently. It is relevant for IKM Emergent in general as a reflection on impacting research discourse, even if this email focuses more explicitly on the agricultural sector.

A case for Twitter in IKM?

Today in another very rich day of discussions in Cambridge, where all three groups met and lots of really interesting people exchanged ideas, we had a brief session on communication across working groups and the wider circle of people following IKM Emergent.

Golden week slum tip – Multiple knowledges?

Multiple knowledges, what does it mean to us?
The IKM emergent programme is concerned with a number of issues but one of its central premises, and perhaps where it’s biggest added value resides, is the concept of multiple knowledges, and how to take them into account when developing IKM interventions.
On the first day of the [...]

Dgroups research report

After quite some delay, the research report that I completed last year for KIT has just been published. Here is a quote from the Executive summary:
The Dgroups platform currently supports 2,308 dgroups and 88,700 individual users (15 July, 2007), but there has not yet been an analysis of the development role of dgroups on a [...]