Joined up thinking on evaluation?

IKM Emergent is based on the premise that better knowledge management within development – reflected in the conception of multiple knowledges – will lead to better development processes and will directly effect the ability of policymakers and field workers to bring about poverty reduction and sustainable development. The challenge facing the programme to demonstrate this is [...]

New members to public mailing list

Just added a number of new members to the public IKM Emergent mailing list on a Dgroup. These comprise:

guests from the Cambridge meetings
colleagues who were interested in the ‘Call for proposals’ for Working Group 3.

Why have we added the latter to the mailing list? Well, even colleagues whose proposal was not selected to be funded have shown [...]

Back from Cambridge

Just got home from the first meeting of the whole IKM Emergent Research Programme. I think the meeting went very well -  incredibly varied and interesting participants and guests from outside the programme, and great surroundings – so it bodes well for the future of the Programme. There is a huge amount on which to follow up…
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Protected: Dgroups creaking…

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CIARIS

At the recent KM4Dev meeting in Lisbon, I came accross the new communities tool called Ciaris, developed by Bev Trayner and colleagues for the ILO. In Lisbon, Bev told me that there is going to be a vanilla version available free to try out very shortly. I would see this system as being a possible [...]

Feedback on communications strategy

Joitske Hulsebosch, a colleague, has given me some feedback on IKM’s emergent communications strategy. In a recent e-mail, she argued:
A general feedback on the communications strategy - I have the feeling it’s walking to two different legs. On the one hand disseminating the ‘good IKM behaviour and practices’, - the members of the Research programme have the right [...]

Puzzled by web statistics

I’m really rather puzzled about the web statistics for The Giraffe. In the period October 2007 (the month the blog was created) to March 2008, it was receiving roughly 1000 visitis per month. In April, this had risen to 1850. And then suddenly, in May and June 2008, it received more than 3500 in each month. [...]