Speaker: Rob Cartridge, Practical Action Presentation at the Eldis 20th Anniversary event "Learning from 20 years of digital knowledge sharing for global development" held at IDS on Thursday 15 September 2016 and Friday 16 September 2016. You can see a video of this presentation at: https://youtu.be/6B_57mMfvGA

1. Institutional challenges and opportunities for
information management, knowledge
brokering and research communications?
The 5 Ps:
Rob Cartridge

2. 1. PROJECTS

5. 2. (OVER) PROMISES

8. Opportunities:-
 OK Hub
 Climate Knowledge
Brokers
 GODAN
 Linked Open Data
 Climate Tagger
 Etc.

9. 3. POOR LEADERS

12. 4. PEOPLE

14. Top Flight Companies
Investing in Learning
 4 x more likely to report they are
responding faster to business change
 3x more likely to report improvement
in staff morale
 2x more likely to report customer
satisfaction increase
Source: Towards Maturity. Infocus 2016

15. 5. (LACK OF) PARTNERSHIP

17. Opportunity
 Multi faceted
 Multi stakeholder
 Omni channel
 Omni platform
 Complex consortia
 with multi million
dollar contracts

18. So that’s it!
 Projects
 Promises
 Poor Leaders
 People
 Partnerships

19. “The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge.
A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material
things.” – E.F. Schumacher
rob.cartridge@practicalaction.org.uk
www.practicalanswers.org