The document discusses The Motley Fool, a company founded in 1993 that provides financial advice and a community for investors. It introduces FoolVault, a proposed digital library that would allow members to share and exchange spreadsheets and other resources to increase engagement. The goal is to create a stable, scalable, user-driven platform that could eventually be adopted across all of The Motley Fool's services.
Population Council is looking for a portal app to house their mHealth solutions and experiences – think Google Play, but responsive! The product will be used for internal knowledge sharing in the growing segment of mHealth. The portal app will initially be used by Population Council staff involved in innovative efforts around data collection
http://connect.switchpitch.com/site/welcome/
4th OpenAIRE Workshop - Legal and Sustainability Issues for Open Access Infrastructures
Nov. Vilnius
Perspectives, Ideas, success and challenges of sustainability models
DuraSpace - Michele Kimpton, Chief Executive Officer
100khomes Hospital to Home call series part 1100khomes
100,000 Homes is hosting a 4-call Hospital to Home series to identify best practices in bridging systems and addressing vulnerable individuals’ multiple care needs. This is the powerpoint for the first of four installments.
Herding Cats: User Research Techniques for Standardizing an Organic IntranetGianna Pfister-LaPin
This document outlines a process for standardizing an organic intranet using user research techniques. It begins by introducing the authors and providing background on Mayo Clinic. It then discusses common intranet issues like inconsistent navigation, searchability problems, and a lack of governance. The proposed process involves discovering the problem through user studies, gaining support from leadership, designing and building standardized templates informed by user research, and establishing governance standards and marketing the new approach.
The WYRED (netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital society) project has celebrated its fifth face-to-face meeting in Istanbul (Turkey) from November 19th – 21st. This represents the work done in WYRED Working Group 3 related to WP8 Dissemination by OXFAM.
The document discusses The Motley Fool, a company founded in 1993 that provides financial advice and a community for investors. It introduces FoolVault, a proposed digital library that would allow members to share and exchange spreadsheets and other resources to increase engagement. The goal is to create a stable, scalable, user-driven platform that could eventually be adopted across all of The Motley Fool's services.
Population Council is looking for a portal app to house their mHealth solutions and experiences – think Google Play, but responsive! The product will be used for internal knowledge sharing in the growing segment of mHealth. The portal app will initially be used by Population Council staff involved in innovative efforts around data collection
http://connect.switchpitch.com/site/welcome/
4th OpenAIRE Workshop - Legal and Sustainability Issues for Open Access Infrastructures
Nov. Vilnius
Perspectives, Ideas, success and challenges of sustainability models
DuraSpace - Michele Kimpton, Chief Executive Officer
100khomes Hospital to Home call series part 1100khomes
100,000 Homes is hosting a 4-call Hospital to Home series to identify best practices in bridging systems and addressing vulnerable individuals’ multiple care needs. This is the powerpoint for the first of four installments.
Herding Cats: User Research Techniques for Standardizing an Organic IntranetGianna Pfister-LaPin
This document outlines a process for standardizing an organic intranet using user research techniques. It begins by introducing the authors and providing background on Mayo Clinic. It then discusses common intranet issues like inconsistent navigation, searchability problems, and a lack of governance. The proposed process involves discovering the problem through user studies, gaining support from leadership, designing and building standardized templates informed by user research, and establishing governance standards and marketing the new approach.
The WYRED (netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital society) project has celebrated its fifth face-to-face meeting in Istanbul (Turkey) from November 19th – 21st. This represents the work done in WYRED Working Group 3 related to WP8 Dissemination by OXFAM.
This document discusses Jisc's support for developing digital capabilities for research. It outlines various digital skills that are important for research, such as information literacy, data literacy, and digital collaboration. Jisc provides services, advice and guidance, and communities of practice to support these digital skills. Without skills in areas like data management, the use of new technologies for research, and software development, the research process will be less efficient and productive. The document asks how readers' institutions support digital research skills and what Jisc should do to further develop these skills, such as through a discovery tool or community of practice.
The document discusses AFE-INNOVNET, an EU project that aims to support innovation for age-friendly environments. It establishes that physical and social environments are key to healthy aging. The project brings together stakeholders from 16 EU countries to develop solutions, share best practices, and assess the impact of age-friendly innovations. The overarching goals are to support healthy aging through collaboration and evidence-based solutions to create environments that support older adults.
This presentation focuses on a proposed idea of a fish innovation platform for Zambia. The presentation covers the following topics:
• What an innovation platform aims to achieve: that is to bring private, public actors and farmers together to determine efficient and sustainable strategies to reach smallholder farmers through the IBEMs and scale their investments.
• An analysis that innovation platform members can decide themes and topics that suit them and arrangements that are appropriate for solving common problems identified by members of the platform or to take advantage of opportunities.
• The benefits and constraints of an innovation platform.
ICT4D - the what, why and how + Digital Principles Pecha Kucha (http://digitalprinciples.org/)
Download to view the citations and references (included in the comments on each slide) as well as the GIFs.
Approaches to knowledge packaging and dissemination.ICARDA
The document discusses approaches to knowledge packaging and dissemination for the CACILM knowledge management project. It aims to produce and share useful information with farmers and decision makers in Central Asian countries to improve sustainable land management. The project will define key user groups, understand how best to engage them, and design communication activities and materials tailored to each group. This includes capturing and packaging project results before strategically communicating research findings to influence stakeholders like decision makers, extension services, and development partners.
This slide deck will explore the advantages, challenges, and requirements of a connected education ecosystem. It will also examine how WSO2 provides all the components to create one.
Sciencewise is a UK organization funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills that helps the government engage the public on science and technology policy issues. The webinar summarized research from Sciencewise on best practices for public engagement, including when to engage the public in the policy process, how new digital technologies can support engagement, which publics to engage, and overcoming barriers to engagement. The webinar provided examples from past Sciencewise projects and highlighted key lessons about conceptualizing the public and ensuring inclusion of different perspectives.
The document discusses using wikis to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing during emergency response efforts across different organizations and locations. It outlines that wikis allow anyone to easily edit and update information in real-time. While wikis enable global cooperation, their success relies on communities of practice actively using and maintaining them before and during crises. The document advocates that emergency response wikis should serve as dynamic knowledge exchange centers rather than static websites in order to better prepare for and respond to situations. It raises questions about how to optimize emergency wikis and ensure their ongoing evolution meets changing needs.
Strategies for supporting collaborations and building relationships for openi...godanSec
This webinar highlights the importance of identifying and involving different stakeholder groups and sectors to ensure an inclusive and collaborative process to develop open data strategies and policies. It will explore questions such as “How do you convince someone to open their data?” and “How to you put an effective policy in place?”
Presentation about Knowledge Hub on what it is, the benefits and who's using it. Presented by Liz Copeland at Really Useful Day: Social media for councils in London on 6 February 2015.
Presentation about the Knowledge Hub - what it is, governance, key benefits, and key features. Presented by Liz Copeland at Really Useful Day: Social media for councils in Sheffield on 27 February 2015.
An e-society is society in which the process of making, distributing and handling of information represents a significant economic and cultural activity.
Connect Innovation solutions ensure an innovative and modern e-society based on knowledge that is crucial for the working and living nowadays. These online solutions contribute towards the growth and progress in e-society and its parts.
How PIH Is Using Office 365 to Improve Global CollaborationPerficient, Inc.
Partners In Health (PIH) is a Boston-based nonprofit that delivers high-quality health care and serves impoverished communities around the world. Given its mission, resource allocation at PIH has always prioritized the needs of people over systems.
With communication systems becoming expensive to maintain and increasingly deficient, PIH decided to migrate to Microsoft Office 365, giving them a reliable and secure communication toolbox.
Along with Dave Mayo, CIO at Partners In Health, our experts covered:
-How adopting a consolidated, reliable platform for colleague interactions enables PIH to more effectively improve the quality of health and needs of underserved populations
-The process of moving 1500 users to the cloud, including a transition to Exchange Online for company-wide communication, Azure-hosted ADFS for identity management, and SharePoint Online for document storage and collaboration
-The importance of organizational change management to deploy Office 365
CareHubs is an online engagement platform designed for healthcare communications professionals to connect with external audiences. It provides a unified solution for patient communities, social media management, multimedia publishing and analytics. CareHubs clients include leading healthcare organizations that use it for applications like public relations, patient education and clinical trials. It offers a flexible platform that can be customized for different user needs.
The document discusses several potential applications of the Internet for businesses, including communications, research and development, marketing, and project support. It notes that the Internet allows for improved two-way dialogue, access to information from anywhere, virtual collaboration, and around-the-clock customer support. It also outlines an Internet capability plan for providing access, email, file transfer, web pages, discussion groups, and other features to take advantage of these opportunities.
Disaster Management Systems: Building Capacity for Developing Countries and ...Connie White
The document discusses building disaster management capacity in developing countries through information and communication technologies. It outlines how increasing internet penetration and use of mobile devices and social media can help take humanitarians and organizations online, disseminate information, and enable two-way communication. Various software tools, communities, and methods are presented for building individual, institutional, and systemic capacity at national and local levels. Aligning these capacity building efforts with targets in the Hyogo Framework for Action is also discussed.
Nonprofit Marketing in the Digital Age 2013 - by Thomas HarpointnerThomas Harpointner ♘
This was originally presented to a live audience on June 27, 2013 at the Direct Marketing Association of Atlanta.
AIS Media CEO, Thomas Harpointner, led a panel of top non-profit executives to explore how they’re leveraging the power of digital marketing to drive cause awareness and meet mission-critical objectives. Topics included:
• Non-profit marketing trends, opportunities and challenges
• Integrated marketing done right: real-life examples
• Leveraging the viral power of social media to engage locally and connect globally
• Lessons learned: digital marketing pitfalls to avoid
Speakers & Panelists
Thomas Harpointner, CEO, AIS Media - Presenter & Moderator
James Franklin, CEO, TechBridge
Stephanie Christiansen, Executive Director, The Autism Foundation of Georgia
Professor Greg Hodgin, Executive Director, Peacebuilding Solutions
Details: http://www.aismedia.com/press/non-profit-marketing-in-the-digital-age-jun-27-2013
Thomas Harpointner, CEO
AIS Media Inc. | www.aismedia.com
3340 Peachtree Rd NE Ste 750 Atlanta, GA 30326
Twitter: @TomHarpointner
The document provides an overview of the Digital Supercluster program including:
- The program will invest $950 million from the federal government to drive growth through digital technology collaborations.
- Projects will be selected through a competitive process and receive matching funding if approved.
- The focus areas are technology leadership projects and capacity building projects. Technology leadership projects will transform industries through areas like precision health, digital twins, and data commons. Capacity building projects will grow skills, scale small businesses, and increase exports.
Product management for open source software - Nandini Ravi and Gurpreet Luthrabaconfblr
This document discusses product management for open source software. It notes that open source software has matured and become popular, competing with enterprise products while having lower costs. Product management is needed to balance competing motivations from various stakeholders like engineering, business, and end users. Open source follows different models than proprietary software, relying on volunteer contributors and using community consensus. The key challenges include coordinating the globally distributed community and balancing goals with contributors' motivations. The document outlines the typical phases of open source product management including conceiving the idea, requirements gathering, collaborative design, building and testing by volunteers, and ongoing maintenance as the project is always a work in progress.
NetHope is a consortium of 43 leading international nonprofits and technology companies devoted to solving global issues through technology. It creates a collaborative framework for its members to share resources, best practices, and expertise to increase the impact of their programs. Public-private partnerships are key, providing access to products, funding, and expertise from partners like Microsoft, Cisco, and USAID. NetHope also experiments with new technologies, such as developing a broadband network for a refugee camp serving over 500,000 people and creating an IT training program that has helped over 1,000 youth find employment.
This document discusses Jisc's support for developing digital capabilities for research. It outlines various digital skills that are important for research, such as information literacy, data literacy, and digital collaboration. Jisc provides services, advice and guidance, and communities of practice to support these digital skills. Without skills in areas like data management, the use of new technologies for research, and software development, the research process will be less efficient and productive. The document asks how readers' institutions support digital research skills and what Jisc should do to further develop these skills, such as through a discovery tool or community of practice.
The document discusses AFE-INNOVNET, an EU project that aims to support innovation for age-friendly environments. It establishes that physical and social environments are key to healthy aging. The project brings together stakeholders from 16 EU countries to develop solutions, share best practices, and assess the impact of age-friendly innovations. The overarching goals are to support healthy aging through collaboration and evidence-based solutions to create environments that support older adults.
This presentation focuses on a proposed idea of a fish innovation platform for Zambia. The presentation covers the following topics:
• What an innovation platform aims to achieve: that is to bring private, public actors and farmers together to determine efficient and sustainable strategies to reach smallholder farmers through the IBEMs and scale their investments.
• An analysis that innovation platform members can decide themes and topics that suit them and arrangements that are appropriate for solving common problems identified by members of the platform or to take advantage of opportunities.
• The benefits and constraints of an innovation platform.
ICT4D - the what, why and how + Digital Principles Pecha Kucha (http://digitalprinciples.org/)
Download to view the citations and references (included in the comments on each slide) as well as the GIFs.
Approaches to knowledge packaging and dissemination.ICARDA
The document discusses approaches to knowledge packaging and dissemination for the CACILM knowledge management project. It aims to produce and share useful information with farmers and decision makers in Central Asian countries to improve sustainable land management. The project will define key user groups, understand how best to engage them, and design communication activities and materials tailored to each group. This includes capturing and packaging project results before strategically communicating research findings to influence stakeholders like decision makers, extension services, and development partners.
This slide deck will explore the advantages, challenges, and requirements of a connected education ecosystem. It will also examine how WSO2 provides all the components to create one.
Sciencewise is a UK organization funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills that helps the government engage the public on science and technology policy issues. The webinar summarized research from Sciencewise on best practices for public engagement, including when to engage the public in the policy process, how new digital technologies can support engagement, which publics to engage, and overcoming barriers to engagement. The webinar provided examples from past Sciencewise projects and highlighted key lessons about conceptualizing the public and ensuring inclusion of different perspectives.
The document discusses using wikis to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing during emergency response efforts across different organizations and locations. It outlines that wikis allow anyone to easily edit and update information in real-time. While wikis enable global cooperation, their success relies on communities of practice actively using and maintaining them before and during crises. The document advocates that emergency response wikis should serve as dynamic knowledge exchange centers rather than static websites in order to better prepare for and respond to situations. It raises questions about how to optimize emergency wikis and ensure their ongoing evolution meets changing needs.
Strategies for supporting collaborations and building relationships for openi...godanSec
This webinar highlights the importance of identifying and involving different stakeholder groups and sectors to ensure an inclusive and collaborative process to develop open data strategies and policies. It will explore questions such as “How do you convince someone to open their data?” and “How to you put an effective policy in place?”
Presentation about Knowledge Hub on what it is, the benefits and who's using it. Presented by Liz Copeland at Really Useful Day: Social media for councils in London on 6 February 2015.
Presentation about the Knowledge Hub - what it is, governance, key benefits, and key features. Presented by Liz Copeland at Really Useful Day: Social media for councils in Sheffield on 27 February 2015.
An e-society is society in which the process of making, distributing and handling of information represents a significant economic and cultural activity.
Connect Innovation solutions ensure an innovative and modern e-society based on knowledge that is crucial for the working and living nowadays. These online solutions contribute towards the growth and progress in e-society and its parts.
How PIH Is Using Office 365 to Improve Global CollaborationPerficient, Inc.
Partners In Health (PIH) is a Boston-based nonprofit that delivers high-quality health care and serves impoverished communities around the world. Given its mission, resource allocation at PIH has always prioritized the needs of people over systems.
With communication systems becoming expensive to maintain and increasingly deficient, PIH decided to migrate to Microsoft Office 365, giving them a reliable and secure communication toolbox.
Along with Dave Mayo, CIO at Partners In Health, our experts covered:
-How adopting a consolidated, reliable platform for colleague interactions enables PIH to more effectively improve the quality of health and needs of underserved populations
-The process of moving 1500 users to the cloud, including a transition to Exchange Online for company-wide communication, Azure-hosted ADFS for identity management, and SharePoint Online for document storage and collaboration
-The importance of organizational change management to deploy Office 365
CareHubs is an online engagement platform designed for healthcare communications professionals to connect with external audiences. It provides a unified solution for patient communities, social media management, multimedia publishing and analytics. CareHubs clients include leading healthcare organizations that use it for applications like public relations, patient education and clinical trials. It offers a flexible platform that can be customized for different user needs.
The document discusses several potential applications of the Internet for businesses, including communications, research and development, marketing, and project support. It notes that the Internet allows for improved two-way dialogue, access to information from anywhere, virtual collaboration, and around-the-clock customer support. It also outlines an Internet capability plan for providing access, email, file transfer, web pages, discussion groups, and other features to take advantage of these opportunities.
Disaster Management Systems: Building Capacity for Developing Countries and ...Connie White
The document discusses building disaster management capacity in developing countries through information and communication technologies. It outlines how increasing internet penetration and use of mobile devices and social media can help take humanitarians and organizations online, disseminate information, and enable two-way communication. Various software tools, communities, and methods are presented for building individual, institutional, and systemic capacity at national and local levels. Aligning these capacity building efforts with targets in the Hyogo Framework for Action is also discussed.
Nonprofit Marketing in the Digital Age 2013 - by Thomas HarpointnerThomas Harpointner ♘
This was originally presented to a live audience on June 27, 2013 at the Direct Marketing Association of Atlanta.
AIS Media CEO, Thomas Harpointner, led a panel of top non-profit executives to explore how they’re leveraging the power of digital marketing to drive cause awareness and meet mission-critical objectives. Topics included:
• Non-profit marketing trends, opportunities and challenges
• Integrated marketing done right: real-life examples
• Leveraging the viral power of social media to engage locally and connect globally
• Lessons learned: digital marketing pitfalls to avoid
Speakers & Panelists
Thomas Harpointner, CEO, AIS Media - Presenter & Moderator
James Franklin, CEO, TechBridge
Stephanie Christiansen, Executive Director, The Autism Foundation of Georgia
Professor Greg Hodgin, Executive Director, Peacebuilding Solutions
Details: http://www.aismedia.com/press/non-profit-marketing-in-the-digital-age-jun-27-2013
Thomas Harpointner, CEO
AIS Media Inc. | www.aismedia.com
3340 Peachtree Rd NE Ste 750 Atlanta, GA 30326
Twitter: @TomHarpointner
The document provides an overview of the Digital Supercluster program including:
- The program will invest $950 million from the federal government to drive growth through digital technology collaborations.
- Projects will be selected through a competitive process and receive matching funding if approved.
- The focus areas are technology leadership projects and capacity building projects. Technology leadership projects will transform industries through areas like precision health, digital twins, and data commons. Capacity building projects will grow skills, scale small businesses, and increase exports.
Product management for open source software - Nandini Ravi and Gurpreet Luthrabaconfblr
This document discusses product management for open source software. It notes that open source software has matured and become popular, competing with enterprise products while having lower costs. Product management is needed to balance competing motivations from various stakeholders like engineering, business, and end users. Open source follows different models than proprietary software, relying on volunteer contributors and using community consensus. The key challenges include coordinating the globally distributed community and balancing goals with contributors' motivations. The document outlines the typical phases of open source product management including conceiving the idea, requirements gathering, collaborative design, building and testing by volunteers, and ongoing maintenance as the project is always a work in progress.
NetHope is a consortium of 43 leading international nonprofits and technology companies devoted to solving global issues through technology. It creates a collaborative framework for its members to share resources, best practices, and expertise to increase the impact of their programs. Public-private partnerships are key, providing access to products, funding, and expertise from partners like Microsoft, Cisco, and USAID. NetHope also experiments with new technologies, such as developing a broadband network for a refugee camp serving over 500,000 people and creating an IT training program that has helped over 1,000 youth find employment.
Eldis 20th Anniversary Workshop 2016: Neil Pakenham-Walsh and Ivan KulisIDS Knowledge Services
Communities of practice have the potential to greatly contribute to international development by increasing inclusiveness, value, and collaboration. However, there are still challenges to overcome. First, while connectivity is growing, true inclusiveness requires addressing psychological and technical barriers. Second, demonstrating clear value for participants, organizations, and sustainable development goals is difficult due to a lack of management skills and evidence of impact. Third, the current fragmented ecosystem of communities of practice results in duplication and overlap, making collaboration challenging. To realize the potential of communities of practice will require supporting their efforts to be more inclusive, valuable, and collaborative, as well as providing an enabling environment for them to thrive.
Provides concept overview, business case, market overview, business model overview, screenshots, video links, and more to help the viewer understand Powerline's offering and value.
Business case for deploying online collaboration across organisational bounda...David Terrar
Pollyanna Jones of NHS England & David Terrar of Agile Elephant, introduced by John Glover of Kahootz, use the NHS England futureNHS platform as a case study story for implementing an effective collaboration solution across silos, teams and organisational boundaries. The story shows:
* How the Department of Health and their Arm’s-Length Bodies are using a shared service arrangement to improve team working and stakeholder engagement across the UK health sector
* The potential, drivers and enablers that are necessary for success and the impending blockers and pitfalls with advice as how to overcome them.
* Where to start, how to educate your staff, and an understanding as to how to select and drive benefit from collaboration tools across the value chain
* How to tap into the collective knowledge and expertise of your stakeholders to foster a sense of shared purpose and community involvement
* Building a solid business case. Where the value and ROI of collaboration tools could lie as your organisation looks to improve team working with external parties and across organisational boundaries.
Collaborate to innovate master class full presentationChewittdean
- The Open Innovation Programme at Coventry University aims to foster excellence, innovation, creativity and enterprise among students, staff, and partner organizations.
- It provides various levels of support for SMEs, from general knowledge and experience sessions to specific interventions and collaboration for innovation opportunities.
- The Innovation - University Enterprise Network will support 420 businesses in the West Midlands region, preparing them to successfully collaborate with large organizations and accelerate the innovation process in target sectors like niche vehicles, digital media, and assistive technologies.
The presentation shows a brief description of the Humancredit concept with B2B focus:
EXTRACT:
Humancredit is an non-profit digital-marketing platfom where:
WEB USERS GET EMPOWERED TO WIN THEIR DIGITAL SELF-DETERMINATION BACK:
- they control their communication channel to the web industry,
- they get only relevant advertisement,
- they do good - just browsing the web as usual.
BRANDS, ADVERTISERS & PUBLISHERS WIN A CHANNEL FOR ENGAGED CONSUMER DIALOGUE:
- they receive (anonymous) access to premium audience collections - based on voluntarily shred user data,
- they receive a feedback channel to engaged consumers - interested in talking to them,
- they receive a „BLUE POINT for socially engaged advertisement“ on their ads, because 90% of the money, they pay for the services of Humancredit does for "good causes“ chosen by the users (as individuals or as a part of a community).
NGOs and HUMANITARIAN PROJECTS WIN A NEW SOURCE OF ENGAGEMENT:
- they receive help from people, who donate with their online activity, time, feedback & expertise,
- they receive help from new communities - sharing same ideas
- they benefit from a new feedback platform also for their own activities.
Our dream:
ENGAGED HUMAN 2 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
ADDED VALUE THROUGH COLLABORATION
VOLUNTARILY SHARED USER DATA TURNS INTO A SOCIAL CURRENCY
Status:
Developing MVP (Launch 30.01.2015)
Application for a BMBF research project "PriVaSI – Private Data in Value-Co-Creating Service In-novationton" together with SAP, University Bayreuth, Karlsruher Institute of Technology.
Testing SAP HANA
Preparing our PILOT-2015
Looking for investment / sponsoring / partners
Open Source as an Instrument of Public Policy - Presented by Brian BehlendorAcquia
This document discusses using open source software development principles in public policy projects. It argues that open source can accelerate standards adoption, improve quality through transparency, accelerate features, and ensure use of modern technologies. The approach involves encouraging contributions, questions, and commercial involvement. Tools include public code, issues, documentation, discussions, and events. Examples given are the NHIN Direct project for health messaging, which has been fully open since inception. The document concludes that engaging the public through open source requires focus, transparency, recognition of motivations, facilitation, and expectations of long-term support transitioning to non-profits.
Speakers' slides at the Wessex MedTech Event 2018 titled: Supporting Innovation in Medical Technology Enterprises.
Hosted by the Wessex AHSN and NIHR CRN Wessex, in partnership with the NIHR SME roadshow.
The document discusses how companies are using intranets, social intranets, and social collaboration platforms. It provides examples of how some companies are using these tools to support change and engagement within their organizations. The document also discusses the benefits these digital tools can provide, such as managing change, engaging employees, adapting to new generations, and measuring success through more efficient information sharing and expertise retention.
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Session Building from WASH to IWRM - photo galleryIRC
On 15 October 2023, by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Bangladesh and IRC organised a panel session titled Building WASH into IWRM at the 9th International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM 2023).
The session drew examples from three NGO-led diverse WASH programmes intervening in different regions and different administrative settings of Bangladesh. The three NGOs that shared their programme experiences were BRAC, SNV and the Max Foundation.
Learn more
https://www.ircwash.org/blog/wash-crucial-component-iwrm
The document summarizes photos taken in 2023 of the sewage plant in Norton, Zimbabwe. The plant was originally constructed in the 1950s but had fallen into disrepair by 2017. It underwent refurbishment with support from Welthungerhilfe to repair damaged infrastructure like leaking sewage pipes. The conventional treatment plant includes intake works, primary clarifiers, trickling filters, humus tanks, and sludge drying beds. While parts of the system have been repaired, the partially treated sewage still flows directly to nearby farms from the holding ponds.
Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan ImplementationIRC
The Water Development Commission shared the experience with the Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan (CR WSP) implementation approach in Ethiopia during a learning workshop. This workshop was held in Adama, Ethiopia, on 23 September 2021.
Presentation by Gezahegn Lemecha from IRC WASH on the concept of Climate Resilient WASH. This presentation was given during the Climate Resilient WASH learning workshop in Adama, Ethiopia, on 23 September 2021.
Overview of enabling environment and implementation of climate resilient WASH IRC
Presentation given by the Ethiopian Water Development Commission during the Climate Resilient WASH workshop in Adama, Ethiopia. This workshop was held on 23 September 2021.
The document summarizes ways that households in sub-Saharan Africa develop self-supplied water sources through methods like wells, rainwater harvesting, and springs. It discusses how households incrementally improve their water systems over time. It also outlines three ways self-supply can be supported: 1) through technical advisory services and guidelines, 2) by strengthening the private sector, and 3) with policies and budgets to aid households in construction and supply improvement. The document promotes a new book on self-supply and filling gaps in public water provision.
Self-supply refers to households taking responsibility for developing their own water sources through various methods like digging wells, collecting rainwater, or protecting springs. This document outlines the key reasons households pursue self-supply due to issues with public water systems like long wait times. It then describes common self-supply methods in Sub-Saharan Africa like family wells and rainwater harvesting. The document emphasizes that self-supply should be supported through technical advice, private sector development, and policies that help households improve their water sources over time.
This short document encourages the reader to take a second to think about how they can help transform billions of lives but provides no other context or details. It is unclear from the text alone what specific actions or causes the reader is being asked to consider to help transform lives at a global scale.
Webinar : Adapting your advocacy to COVID-19 health crisisIRC
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing development programmes to rapidly readjust their advocacy strategy to support local or national governments in their emergency planning. The Watershed empowering citizens programme organised a webinar attended by over 60 participants on 15 April 2020, to discuss and learn about: ways to adapt advocacy approaches in time of COVID-19; practical examples of shifting activities at national and local levels; ways to reach your target audience while social distancing; ways to adapt your messaging, keeping Watershed priorities through the lens of COVID-19.
This report includes the webinar Powerpoint presentations and some recommendations based on the Q&A session. The titles and authors of the presentations are: "Why is strong advocacy essential during a crisis?" by Evita Rosenberg (IRC); "Watershed Bangladesh : adapting advocacy approaches during COVID 19 outbreak" by Ranjan Kumar Ghose (WaterAid Bangladesh); and "Adapting advocacy approaches in Kenya "by Patrick Mwanzia (Simavi Kenya).
Novel partnership between NWSC and Kabarole District to provide safe water to...IRC
Pius Mugabi of the Kabarole District Local Government, Martin Watsisi and Angela Huston of IRC and Denis Maramuzi, Area Manager of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), Fort Portal, Kabarole worked together on preparing a presentation for the 20th AfWA International Congress and Exhibition in Uganda.
Their presentation focused on a new partnership between NWSC and Kabarole District to extend NWSC’s piped network to provide safe water to communities in the hard-to-reach Kabende sub county. This novel public-public partnership is part of the increasing trend of rural utilisation. NWSC is extending into more small towns and rural growth centres with a broadened mandate and through the SCAP100 Programme will reach 12,000 new villages during 2017-2020.
Interested in more information on the case of Kabende sub county in Kabarole district and the progress so far? Check the presentation slides.
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS) Conflict sensitivity support and tools. Referenced in the IRC WASH debate "Sustainable WASH service delivery and local WRM in fragile states: how far can you get?" which took place 20 November 2019 in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Watershed Mali : strengthening civil society for sustainable WASH-IWRM in MaliIRC
The political crisis and insecurity existing in Mali since 2012 has had a negative impact on the country’s water and sanitation sector. Normative frameworks are non-existent or unknown, polices and laws are not enforced, water quality is hardly monitored and budget commitments are unclear. The lack of knowledge about the human rights to water and sanitation has led to poor accountability, and civil society organisations (CSOs) lack capacity to advocate and lobby for better services.
Within the above context, the Watershed empowering citizens Mali country programme focuses on two main issues: (1) water quality and waste management and (2) universal access to sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. So far the programme has been able to enhance the capacities, credibility and audience of water and sanitation CSOs, including the Alliance Citoyenne Pour l’Eau et l’Assainissement (ACEA-Mali). A multi-stakeholder forum has been established and coalitions of CSOs, local government and media have been strengthened, which can mobilise stakeholders, including Parliament.
Because there enough water and faecal sludge disposal is not seen as a problem in rural areas, there is little incentive to integrate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and water resources management (WRM). Watershed is trying to stimulate integration by developing a handbook and guideline in combination with collaboration with CSO networks and donor-funded programmes.
Issues emerging from the Watershed Mali programme include how CSOs can influence decision makers to increase national WASH budget allocations infragile states, how to harmonise the institutional and legal frameworks of the WASH and WRM sectors, how to encourage innovation.
A joint presentation by Afou Chantal Bengaly (Wetlands International) and Ele Jan Saaf (SaafConsult) at the WASH Debate "Sustainable WASH service delivery and local WRM in fragile states: how far can you get?", in The Hague, the Netherlands on 20 November 2019.
WASH systems strengthening in the Central African RepublicIRC
Water for Good (WFG) works exclusively in the Central African Republic (CAR), a country facing extreme economic fragility. The road blocks set up by the non-state armed groups, which control nearly 80% of the territory, have a significant impact on the country's economy. WFG has been operating in the CAR since 2004, initially as a borehole drilling organisation, and shortly thereafter, as a handpump maintenance service provider. It has created a circuit rider approach for preventative maintenance and uses an electronic reporting system.
After joining Agenda for Change in 2017, WFG opted to adopt IRC's systems approach to go beyond their preventative maintenance programme and work towards universal, sustainable access. WFG opted to pilot a district-wide approach in Mambéré-Kadéi, while maintaining periodic preventative maintenance in other prefectures. In the pilot area, WFG focused on the following system blocking blocks: infrastructure, monitoring, finance, planning and institutions. At the same time it is helping to build up regional capacity for systems strengthening.
In conclusion, WFG believes it is possible to strengthen systems in fragile states, thanks to their organisation's long-term presence in CAR, their ability to plug short-term projects into the larger roadmap, and their ability to work with systems champions. The intention is not to build parallel systems, but to champion a roadmap that is both supported by all WASH stakeholders and adequately funded.
Presentation by David De Armey, Director of International Partnerships, Water for Good at the WASH Debate "Sustainable WASH service delivery and local WRM in fragile states: how far can you get?", in The Hague, the Netherlands on 20 November 2019.
Finding the flow in fragile contexts : IWRM in MaliIRC
What has World Waternet learned by implementing an integrated water resources management (IWRM) approach in Mali? In the Blue Deal Dji Don project, World Waternet supports the Agence Nationale de Gestion des Stations d’Épuration du Mali (ANGESEM) to improve wastewater management. Presentation by Annette Rozendaal-Morón, World Waternet at the WASH Debate "Sustainable WASH service delivery and local WRM in fragile states: how far can you get?", in The Hague, the Netherlands on 20 November 2019.
This presentation by Ambrose Kibuuka is a part of IRC’s in-house “What’s for Lunch series”, It reviews progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for sanitation and hygiene, sector trends focusing on Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and sanitation marketing, and how rich nations achieved universal access to sanitation. It also briefly looks at WASH linkages with climate change, stunting, nutrition, and gender and social inclusion. The presentation concludes that unsafely managed sanitation, especially in rural areas, remains a challenge in developing countries as a result of population growth, climate change and the lack of funding for on-site sanitation and faecal sludge removal. Systems strengthening (in particular access to financing) and strong public commitment are required to achieve universal access to sanitation by 2030. The presentation includes a list of 21 references.
Social accountability : civil society and the human rights to water and sanit...IRC
The Watershed programme supports civil society organisations (CSOs) both on normative content (and claiming their rights if not yet met) as well as supporting CSOs to engage in the procedural part/principles of human rights to water and sanitation. The social accountability approach used by Watershed is based on the principles of access to information, non-discrimination, accountability and participation. The role of CSOs includes holding government to account for their obligation to ensure that everyone’s human rights are fulfilled, protected and respected. For this Watershed uses the Social Accountability Model developed by Water Witness International. Conclusions and reflection are provided on how this model has been used in Kenya and Bangladesh. Presentation by Esther de Vreede, Simavi, at the WASH Debate “Dialogue and dissent: Looking at the role of civil society in achieving SDG 6 by 2030”, in The Hague, the Netherlands on 26 June 2019.
Wash Debates: Looking at the role of civil society in achieving SDG 6 by 2030IRC
What can civil society organisations do to advance progress towards SDG 6? What are the major obstacles that impede their efforts and more importantly, how can they be overcome?
Images from the IRC WASH Debates series, which took place 26 June 2019 in The Hague, the Netherlands.
The end of the poldermodel? : the role of dissent in Dutch international wate...IRC
The Dutch NGO Both Ends is involved in two Strategic Partnerships for Dialogue & Dissent funded by the Netherlands government. One of them, the Fair Green & Global (FGG) Alliance, support capacity building of civil society organisations (CSOs) to effectively voice their views and hold policymakers and companies to account. The role of dissent is seen to contribute towards equality, equity and justice. The lessons learned by the FGG Alliance to address the concerns of Indonesian CSOs regarding land reclamations in Jakarta Bay Masterplan will be taken up to support CSO involvement in the Manila Bay Sustainable Development Masterplan in the Philippines. The challenges and opportunities for CSO involvement in Dutch-funded interventions in developing countries are briefly outlined. Presentation by Giacomo Galli at the WASH Debate “Dialogue and dissent: Looking at the role of civil society in achieving SDG 6 by 2030”, in The Hague, the Netherlands on 26 June 2019.
Voice for Change Partnership : roles of CSOs in achieving SDG6IRC
The Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) programme is a capacity development programme for civil society organizations (CSOs) in six countries across four areas including water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). VCP is a partnership between DGIS, SNV, IFPRI (International Food Policy and Research Institute) and CSOs. The capacity development activities focus on evidence creation and dissemination, and evidence-based advocacy. In Kenya, the V4CP WASH component supports CSO advocacy for improved stakeholder participation and coordination, increased budget allocation, and influencing policy review and development. CSOs used evidence from GIS mapping and the water testing to convince county governments to take action to improve sanitation. The data collected was also used to advocate for increased sanitation investment participatory budgeting. The presentation concludes with challenges and lessons learnt from the Kenya the V4CP WASH component. Presented at the WASH Debate “Dialogue and dissent: Looking at the role of civil society in achieving SDG 6 by 2030”, in The Hague, the Netherlands on 26 June 2019.
Honeypots Unveiled: Proactive Defense Tactics for Cyber Security, Phoenix Sum...APNIC
Adli Wahid, Senior Internet Security Specialist at APNIC, delivered a presentation titled 'Honeypots Unveiled: Proactive Defense Tactics for Cyber Security' at the Phoenix Summit held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 23 to 24 May 2024.
HijackLoader Evolution: Interactive Process HollowingDonato Onofri
CrowdStrike researchers have identified a HijackLoader (aka IDAT Loader) sample that employs sophisticated evasion techniques to enhance the complexity of the threat. HijackLoader, an increasingly popular tool among adversaries for deploying additional payloads and tooling, continues to evolve as its developers experiment and enhance its capabilities.
In their analysis of a recent HijackLoader sample, CrowdStrike researchers discovered new techniques designed to increase the defense evasion capabilities of the loader. The malware developer used a standard process hollowing technique coupled with an additional trigger that was activated by the parent process writing to a pipe. This new approach, called "Interactive Process Hollowing", has the potential to make defense evasion stealthier.
Securing BGP: Operational Strategies and Best Practices for Network Defenders...APNIC
Md. Zobair Khan,
Network Analyst and Technical Trainer at APNIC, presented 'Securing BGP: Operational Strategies and Best Practices for Network Defenders' at the Phoenix Summit held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 23 to 24 May 2024.
2. What is KnowledgePoint?
● Online Q&A platform for humanitarian and
development workers worldwide
● Knowledge management tool
● 150+ Technical Experts
3. KnowledgePoint
● Anyone can ask or answer a question
● Registering is free
● The website is optimised for low-bandwidth
internet
4. KnowledgePoint
A collaborative helpdesk for the humanitarian
sector and a growing network of users
Cross-organisational, cross-sectoral, and
adaptable to individual needs online platform
5. What makes
KnowledgePoint unique?
● 48 hour response target
● Range of sector expertise:
○ From WASH, public health, shelter, construction
to logistics and alternative energy
● Q & A focused
● Public access
● Private groups option
● Developed by development sector organizations,
not owned by large cloud companies
6. Usage / Reach
● 105,000 users cumulative
● 4,000 page views per month
● 183 countries
● Growing mobile use
8. The Goal
To be the “go-to” peer-to-peer knowledge network
for WASH, Shelter, Health, Nutrition for
development and humanitarian contexts
Increase knowledge sharing within and between
organizations
9. The Plans
Re-build the platform:
● Even more user-friendly
● Integrate in organizations’ existing systems
(e.g. SharePoint)
● Mobile offline
● Offer the platform for private/internal groups
to organizations