Event in Washington DC: Launch of DAI Publication on Network Centric Development

This sounds interesting… Maybe I’ll see some of you there.
The DAI invites the interested public to join them for the launching of :
“Network-Centric Development:
New Perspectives on Global Challenges
You are cordially invited to the launch event for DAI’s newest publication, Network-Centric Development: Leveraging Economic and Social Linkages for Growth. This event will bring together leading experts [...]

Moses Abukari writes: Sharing Net-Map among Development Practitioners

After Eva Schiffer gave a wonderful presentation of the potentials of Net-Map in development at IFAD in December 2007, I have been looking for opportunities to further promote Net-Map. In June 2008, IFAD organized a one-day knowledge event where I shared Net-Map based on an IFAD case study I did together with Eva and Jennifer [...]

Ready to roll!

Tomorrow I will start another one of these crazy trips around the world, carrying my Net-Map toolbox to places as far apart as Kenya (to give a training in Social Network Analysis at the International Lifestock Research Institute, ILRI), India (to be part of a team evaluating the impact of World Bank activities on agricultural [...]

Let me tell you…

Next week (4th of September) I am giving a brown bag seminar at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC about “Using the Net-Map method to understand the political economy of social sector interventions”. This is more of an internal event, so I can’t invite you.
But while thinking about this talk I wondered: Maybe I [...]

KM4D Journal call for papers: Collaborative learning: the role of organisational knowledge management strategies

If you read this blog, I just assume that you are interested in similar things as I am. And that might mean that you have something interesting to say about collaborative learning in organizations. KM4D (Knowledge Management for Development) is a great open access journal that encourages researchers but also people who are not so [...]

HIV/AIDS and Nutrition

How does HIV/AIDS affect the ability of people and communities in poor countries to feed themselves? How does food insecurity increase the risk of HIV infection? RENEWAL, the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security (lead by Stuart Gillespie, IFPRI) is a network-of-networks that attempts to further locally relevant research around the issue of AIDS [...]

Understanding your community

Now I’m not talking about a rural village but a community of practice. Today I had a great discussion with some of my colleagues of Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) about how to best map out this community of practice at our annual meeting in Lisbon next week. Who are we, what are the roles [...]

Visualizing Networks Online for KM4Dev

I’ve been thinking of an online version of Net-Map for a while now and my first web-based Net-Map training seminar encouraged me to go further in this direction. During the training I basically directed people I couldn’t see to draw paper maps in their own offices on the Philippines or in India, which is [...]

Deaf children, agricultural gene-banks and rural mother-and-child health

That’s just a limited choice of the very different issues that my training participants on Wednesday were concerned with. So they drew maps about real and potential cases in developed and developing countries, from the international to the local level. As always, alas, time went too quickly and I wasn’t able to take everything in, [...]

Give and take

I am so excited! By posting the invitation to our Net-Map training on the email lists of MandE (Rick Davies’ great Monitoring and Evaluation platform) and KM4Dev (Knowledge Management for Development) I have spurred an absolutely unexpected wave of reactions. We offer the option to participate in the workshop online and I have received applications [...]