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Comment on What do we mean by development? by wjpels

wjpels — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:12:52 +0000

Nice overview Sarah. Is not always meant something ‘sustainable’ when defining development? On another note I think ‘development as we know it’ has been MBA-ed and with that came the horizon shortening to three month (some donors use four- and six monthly reporting cycle). ‘Development’ has no major direction anymore. Informatization – and now datafycation – gives input for better market prices for farmers as well as it is a basis for malicious activities like drones and booby traps. Robins point is horrible: info-imperialism.

Comment on Development and the private sector by Ewen Le Borgne

Ewen Le Borgne — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:16:14 +0000

Btw, here’s an interesting new blog post about private sector participation: http://businessinnovationfacility.org/group/inclusive-business-impacts-network/forum/topics/catalysing-private-sector-development-or-boxing-it-in-a-log-frame in relation with log frames and theories of change…

Comment on Linking knowledge domains by Ewen Le Borgne

Ewen Le Borgne — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:14:20 +0000

Thanks for informing us! It sounds like a good idea – though what will happen with this blog, the IKM-E blog and the process diary (always loved that name, once I knew where it came from)…

Comment on Our mission by Olivia

Olivia — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:08:37 +0000

Very impressed to read about your mission. I am part of a large network; a community of communities; known as The Constellation. We connect local responses using KM tools. We span over 30 countries and have no idea how many members.

Our KM systems and tools have been adapted from those originally used by BP, which were shared in a book called “Learn to Fly” by Parcell and Collison.

We are a “starfish” organisation (for definition, see Brafman and Beckstrom’s, the Starfish and the Spider), which means that if a piece of our network dies, the other pieces just grow back and continue to thrive. KM is a critical piece of keeping the different legs of our Starfish healthy.

Please visit us. http://aidscompetence.ning.com/
Let’s share and learn together!
You can also contact me directly; olivia.munoru@gmail.com, to find out more.

Olivia

Comment on At the IKM Table (2): individual agency vs. organisational remit, accountability and impact pathways for the future of IKM-Emergent by At the IKM Table (2): individual agency vs. organisational remit, accountability and impact pathways for the future of IKM-Emergent | FAKE-DEGREE.CO

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:53:31 +0000

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Comment on Development knowledge ecology: another visit to the KM kitchen? by Knowledge management, social media and ecology – the complexity of three sessions (218, 206 & 173) | KM for me... and you?

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:17:18 +0000

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Comment on Ewen Le Borgne by Brock

Brock — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:17:01 +0000

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Comment on Development knowledge ecology: another visit to the KM kitchen? by Nancy White

Nancy White — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:20:23 +0000

I’m glad you shared the post w/ KM4Dev, Sarah, not the least because it floated across my radar screen. Here is what I wrote on the KM4Dev email list:

Interesting to see this concept resurface in the development context. George Por convened a group back in the late 90s around knowledge ecology (see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?KnowledgeEcologyNetwork and http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?KnowledgeEcology ) – we held an online knowledge ecology fair (http://www.co-i-l.com/kefair/ ), and really spent a lot of time reframing KM into something that wasn’t about capture and structure, but about seeing knowledge from what I’d know call a something more like a complexity view. George has some papers here: http://www.community-intelligence.com/?q=view/resource_garden

The site where I had my paper seems to have vanished (I’m consulting the Internet archives!)

Comment on Linked data experiment by Tweets that mention Linked data experiment « The giraffe -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention Linked data experiment « The giraffe -- Topsy.com — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:30:46 +0000

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Comment on Development knowledge ecology: another visit to the KM kitchen? by wjpels

wjpels — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:27:13 +0000

Ola Sarah, I think part of the KM4Dev discourse space is exactly on this shift away from silver bullets. KM4Dev started as WB & UNICEF & UNDP etc KM people talking to each other. To me, especially IKMergent has opened doors to think KM4Dev beyond the big hierarchies having an ‘internal KM problem’. KM4Dev should be about the ecology the members room about and in .
Perhaps an idea is to start a wiki-page on the KM4Dev on ‘knowledge ecology’ and then point members form the list to it. I am sure Nancy White will react as author of ‘Digital habitats’; ‘habitat’ and ‘ecology’ are neighbours. Perhaps it is wise / handy to structure the discussion a bit like:
- Kecology and global dev institutions
- Kecology and local knowledge
- Kecology and money flows
- Kecology: what not to do
etc.
I will support where I can. Best, Jaap