Sharing Information and Knowledge ‘the ComPart Flowers’ RPC Orientation 4 April 2008

The ComPart ‘Flowers’ What? Key features; illustrations Why? The ‘problem’; the ‘opportunities’ You? As a group As an individual

What?

Key features; illustrations

Why?

The ‘problem’; the ‘opportunities’

You?

As a group

As an individual

What is a ComPart ‘flower’? ‘Web’ space to share information; find information to support reflection and learning to communicate; discuss to document experiences and ideas to add value to your work Collection of tools Open, collaborative, participatory

‘Web’ space

to share information; find information

to support reflection and learning

to communicate; discuss

to document experiences and ideas

to add value to your work

Collection of tools

Open, collaborative, participatory

Why cultivate ComPart ‘flowers’? Address some problems: Staff and partners full of knowledge; Lots of info Is it shared? Communicated? Available? Accessible? Put to use? Learned from? Grab some opportunities CDP and programmatic approach Aid effectiveness, need to work differently and better Web2 ‘open’ and accessible toolkit, also with south Out of necessity Our collective knowledge is our ultimate asset Knowledge needs to flow and travel, it needs passports, and schengen visa arrangements with developing countries

Address some problems:

Staff and partners full of knowledge; Lots of info

Is it shared? Communicated? Available? Accessible?

Put to use? Learned from?

Grab some opportunities

CDP and programmatic approach

Aid effectiveness, need to work differently and better

Web2 ‘open’ and accessible toolkit, also with south

Out of necessity

Our collective knowledge is our ultimate asset

Knowledge needs to flow and travel, it needs passports, and schengen visa arrangements with developing countries

join video CONFERENCES and e-learning on the web BLOG lessons news ideas deposit share and find DOCUMENTS join and facilitate DISCUSSION online by email save track, share BOOKMARKS together SEARCH and navigate the development web list and find EVENTS on the calendar ComPart

RPC Flowers? Some ‘personal’ tools: To track information To share information Toolbar, iGoogle, search Some tools for the ‘group’ to share and communicate With each other With the rest of the alliance Wiki, dgroup, interwise, blog, social bookmarking Ultimately, a way for partners in the region to share among themselves and with the alliance

Some ‘personal’ tools:

To track information

To share information

Toolbar, iGoogle, search

Some tools for the ‘group’ to share and communicate

With each other

With the rest of the alliance

Wiki, dgroup, interwise, blog, social bookmarking

Ultimately, a way for partners in the region to share among themselves and with the alliance