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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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. [...]

Calls for proposals

On 8 June, Working Group 3 published three ‘call for proposals’ for studies that are being undertaken this year. We tried to make the ‘calls’ fairly straightforward to apply for as we don’t want fellow professionals spending hours and hours of their time filling in complicated proposal forms.
The information that we have requested is the [...]

Hypographs

HyperGraph is an open source project which provides java code to work with hyperbolic geometry and especially with hyperbolic trees. It provides a very extensible api to visualize hyperbolic geometry, to handle graphs and to layout hyperbolic trees.