Dgroups Briefing - More effective online collaboration, dialogue and interaction in international development

Brief summarises lessons for more effective online collaboration, dialogue, and interaction in international development

Last year, as the entire development community moved online, the Dgroups Foundation teamed up with partners to take stock of good practices in facilitating and sustaining online and virtual communities and interactions. This included a knowledge café in May that identified four critical success factors for online collaboration, a KM4Dev@20 workshop in July, an e-conference …

Km4Dev Knowledge Cafe - Menti results - Online collacboration

Online interaction in international development: Capitalizing on lessons from an e-conference

Discussions in the recent Foundation-convened e-conference flagged five priority topics essential to effective online dialogue and interaction: Enhancing #participation and #engagement Nurturing effective #COPs Using appropriate #platforms #Learning through e-collaboration #Sustaining engagement through time On 24 September, the Dgroups Foundation facilitated an online meeting to discuss whether these are indeed ‘the’ critical issues and ways …

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Dgroups e-conference capitalizes experiences about online collaboration, dialogue and interaction in development

In 2002, Dgroups was set up by a group of development organizations to more easily share knowledge, connect individuals and organizations and foster collaboration. It did this through easy to set up and use, low bandwidth email-based and online communities and spaces.  By joining us up, Droups aimed to support individual efforts to collaborate online …

Icebreaker - Dgroups session at KM4Dev20Years event

Critical factors for more effective online collaboration, dialogue and interaction in development

Last Friday, 70+ people joined a virtual workshop to share insights and experiences with online collaboration, dialogue and interaction in development. Part of the KM4Dev 20 years event on 2 and 3 July, the session applied an experience capitalization approach to identify ‘actionable knowledge’ that improves our practices in this area. Starting points … We …

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Online collaboration, dialogue and interaction – Dgroups Foundation convenes exchange at the KM4Dev July 2020 event

This year, the KM4Dev community of practice marks 20 years of active engagement, sharing, and learning.  The process kicks off with a 10-session virtual extravaganza on 2 and 3 July, 2020.  It is an exciting, diverse program put together by groups of enthusiastic volunteers. Kudos to them all! On 3 July (1300-1430 CEST), the Dgroups Foundation is …