Digital storytelling in Costa Rica – Sula Batsu

In this post Sula Batsu co-ordinator Kemly Camacho talks about  the work her organisation is doing with communities in Costa Rica. Kemly gives a very good account of the value of reflection and reflexivity, as well as setting out her ideas about the importance of knowledge, self-knowledge, in communities.

About Sulá Batsú
Sulá Batsú is a co-operative [...]

Reflection, reflexivity and emergence

In the last three weeks I have encountered IKME programme participants’ ability to be reflective and reflexive on three separate occasions. I think it is worth describing these occasions and trying to draw out why methods based on reflection and reflexivity might be important to a programme that wants to develop ways of working which [...]

Reflections on a Local Content strand in IKMemergent

Peter Ballantyne and I are researching the state of play in Local Content and whether or how its importance can be moved up the scale of development priorities. The video included in this post summarises progress to date as well as my initial reactions and reflections on what we have encountered .
I find it hard to [...]

Inventory of networks

I just posted the inventory of networks which Joitske Hulsebosch compiled last year after the KM4Dev annual meeting – it was based on a list that a group of us had put together there – to KM4Dev as a Google document, allowing everyone to access (and even edit.)  This was the second time I had [...]

Who owns the truth?

On 24 June 2009, IKM Emergent Working Group 3 organised a afternoon-long public meeting at the Institute of Social Studies inThe Hague.
The objective of the meeting was to present some of IKM Emergent’s recent thinking and research to interested members of the development community in The Netherlands. Although we probably tried to present too much [...]

Research into participatory processes: what happened?

Kate Newman and I have been working with the IKM Emergent Research Programme to develop some research into the flow (and use) of information generated by participatory processes, with a particular focus on international development organisations. This is the story of our experience to date…

Digital storytelling in Sri Lanka – a preliminary discussion of evaluation

Introduction to Michael and his environment
Michael David has been involved long term in community development projects in Sri Lanka and is part of a network of concerned family, friends and colleagues who do whatever they can to access funds, provoke discussion and thinking, or undertake projects. Michael and colleagues are maven-like in making [...]

Wikis and visualisation tools

IKM Emergent’s new website is based on a wiki, a mediawiki wiki which is a type of wiki which can be uploaded onto your own server. Mediwiki was orignally developed for Wikipedia. But what is a wiki?

Creating images from words

I just came across this really nice tool called Wordle  which I think may have some value for us in making content visible. To try it out, I used the text for a forthcoming article on IKM which will be appearing soon in the EADI Newsletter. This is not really a definitive version because I [...]

Washing horses

At the Steering Group meeting in Amsterdam on 3-4 October, we discussed the complex issue of communication of IKM’s conceptions of multiple knowledges and the possibility of bringing about change in the way the development sector approaches information and knowledge management.
We briefly touched on the fact that you can bring the horse to water – [...]