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Workshop about WaterWiki 2.0, held at the web4dev conference, 28-30 Nov 07, Nairobi-Kenya
Presentation
Presentation:-- Juerg.staudenmann 15:15, 29 November 2007 (CET)
Findings | Recommendations
- IYS - Intl. Year of Sanitation 2008
- There should be a SanitationWiki --> OR: use/expand WaterWiki!!
- Overcome the language-barrier !!!!
- as a first step, use an automated service to create RU mirror-pages
- e.g. automated "_RU" extension, from where a knowledge farmer (or on-line volunteers) can take the raw text and create "nice pages" in the RU WaterWiki
- UN-Water should be approached
- Do they work on something similar?
- Should they be leading / coordinating a One-UN WaterWiki?
- --> UN-Habitat would support this approach!
- Low-bandwidth solutions
- Periodic off-line versions: CD-ROM with downloaded HTML-versions
- text-only version (mirror-pages), e.g. as automated function that the server recognized the connection capacity and sends this instead of the full HTML-version
- EXPAND!
- geographically: all regions -- while keeping (sub-)regional chapters (?)
- institutionally: More (all?) UN-agencies and beyond -- possibly even de-brand the site (no UN or other organization shown)
- BUT keep the focus: Water (& Sanitation)
Q&A | Discussion
- Why would people use a Wiki when they are used to EMail?
- Wiki (or any new KM tool) needs to be perceived NOT as an additional tool / requirement to work on, but solutions are needed that the it can be combined in the same work-flow.
- For instance: "Button" in the E-Mail client that would "add your message" to Wiki (or blog) if checked. This as a first step would at least store the message, from where a "knowledge farmer" could tweak/edit and integrate it into Wiki (appropriate page, inter-linking, etc)
- How to handle controversial discussions that could arise?
- 1st of all, don't be afraid that this will happen -- it's the whole idea of "going Wiki". What's needed is a distinction between official websites & statements on one hand and Wiki-articles & discussions on the other. Both are needed; none is replacing the other.
- 2ndly the value-added that more people can access and comment/edit content is outweighing the (potential) risk of vandalism or "inappropriate content" or simply "tough discussions"
Further thoughts & ideas (that came up in other discussions)
- YouTube
- video next CoP-meeting (Bucharest) and YouTube it on WW 2.0
- interview with practitioners
- Flickr for photos!
- Touchgraph for social networking
- similar to facebook
- considered by OECD/DAC to be used for "CoP-management" (Meria Puhakka)
- Meria also is open to dsicuss publishing OECD publication on WaterWiki - will discuss with Brendan an other colleagues
Other web pages and resources to utilize / draw on
- UNEP GEO data portal
- publications
- World Water Development Report
- HDR 2006
- EC Water Management Guide
- UNECE River Basin Assessment
- Eldis / other dev. portals
People to be kept in the loop for WaterWiki 2.0 dev & launch
- Meria Puhakka, OECD -- OECD's potential publication of publication on WW
- Christian Kreutz, GTZ & Nynke Kruiderink, iicd -- web 2.0 applications / blogs / integration / ...
- Eva Vognild, ReliefWeb (--> check "Community section" on Relief-Web)
- Anna Downie, IDS -- integration and/or cross-syndication (RSS) of content with ELDIS & Co.
- Milica Tomasevic, consultant for UNAIDS, UNDP etc.
- Christopher Fabian / UNICEF-crew -- working on UNIWIKI
- James Ohayo, UN-Habitat / Water, Sanitation & Infrastructure Branch
-> send launch message to all web4dev participants
Expansion of WaterWiki community
- organizations stated interest "to be on board somehow" with WaterWiki 2.0
- UNECE (Francesca Bernardini) -- River Basin Assessment
- EC (Andrea Leone) -- new EC Water Management Guidelines
- UN-Habitat: James Ohayo
- UNICEF (Christopher Fabian / ...?..) -- uniwiki,
- http://www.eldis.net
- Further organizations to potentially collaborate with (need to contact)
- UN-Water: ...
- FAO (doing much in KM lately): ...
- IFAD
- IW:LEARN
- UN-Water
- UNEP
