KM4Dev (Knowledge Management for Development) Forum 2007

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KM4Dev (Knowledge Management for Development) Forum 2007

Building and Strengthening Knowledge Networks for Development: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities


The KM4Dev Workshop was organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) at its office in Manila, the Philippines, on 8 and 9 February 2007. The forum was organized to provide a venue for Knowledge Management (KM) practitioners, both new and experienced, to interact, network, learn, and share experiences and concerns on creating, disseminating, transferring, and managing knowledge and information.

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About

The KM4Dev Forum included not only KM practitioners from the development field but also from the private sector. Thus participants and practitioners from both fields got an opportunity to interact with and learn from each other.

The Forum also included workshops on the latest trends and challenges on knowledge management and presentations from experts in this field. A Poster session allowed each participant / participating organization to present on the knowledge management approach followed by that organisation and to showcase innovative KM methods and tools and successful case-studies.

An interesting thing about the KM4Dev workshop was the Open Space session. In this session, participants were allowed to suggest their own topic for discussion and then organize a discussion group of people who were interested in the same topic. The discussion group discussed the topic in an informal, conversational way and the final conclusion of the discussion was presented to the Forum in the last session. Some of the topics suggested for discussion in the Open Space sesion were: climate change and KM, gender and KM, ICT and KM, Google tools and their impact on KM and many more....

Agenda

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Participants

Participants were mostly KM practitioners from international and local donor and development organizations, nongovernment and civil society organizations, private sector, research institutes, and academia.

Resource Persons

Key Note Speaker

  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Menkhoff of Singapore Management University

Panelists of the high-level Forum Meeting’s panel

  • Mr. Rory Chase, independent consultant and Managing Director of Teleos
  • Ms. Kim Henderson, Knowledge and Information Manager—Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • Mr. Frank McCosker, Managing Director—Global Strategic Accounts, Microsoft
  • Mr. Nestor Mijares IV, Deputy Director General, National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)
  • Dr. Abdulnasser Minkara, Office of the Vice President (CRS), Islamic Development Bank
  • Mr. Mike Pereira, Director—Global Online Communities, Development Gateway Foundation

Concurrent workshop presenters

The Organizational Knowledge Assessment
Approaches in Knowledge Sharing
  • Mr. Chris Zielinski, Senior Adviser, Knowledge Management Sharing, World Health Organization.
  • Mr. Frans Neuman, Chairman, InfoBridge Foundation
  • Prof. Vilas Wuwongse, Vice President for External Affairs, Asian Institute of Technology
Sharing of Good Practices on Knowledge-based Development
  • Prof. Serafin Talisayon, Director, CCLFI.Philippines
  • Mr. Alwin Sta. Rosa, Business Excellence Officer and Assistant Vice-President—Comptrollership Group, First Philippine Holdings Corporation
Knowledge Fairs for Development
  • Mr. Johan Arvling, Knowledge Services Specialist—Regional Centre in Bangkok, UNDP
  • Mr. Robert Juhkam, Knowledge Services Team Leader, Regional Centre in Bangkok, UNDP
  • Ms. Agi Veres, Deputy Chief—Policy Support and Programme Development Office, Regional Centre in Bratislava, UNDP
Storytelling and Behavioral Change
  • Ms. Iris Tutuarima, Head of External Relations, Bank Indonesia
The Last Mile of Knowledge Management
  • Mr. Zbigniew Mikolajuk, independent consultant

Biodata of the Resource Persons


WaterWiki at the KM4Dev Forum

In the poster session, UNDP presented a poster on the approach for connecting people through global/regional/country-level networks. The poster was created using an interesting technique- a drawn visualization of a process. The technique itself could be re-used for capturing meeting outcomes, or as part of facilitation.

WaterWiki was presented along with the poster by UNDP. A pamphlet on WaterWiki (see below) was distributed to the participants and information on WaterWiki as a KM tool was shared with the participants during the Poster Session and in the other sessions as well. WaterWiki was well-received and generated interest as an innovative and impressive KM tool.

Pamphlet on WaterWiki


Lessons Learnt

  • Knowledge networking is one of the more successful initiatives in many organizations;
  • There are several interesting and innovative KM ideas that work for programming. Some of these include: external networks of practitioners, external community networks, community experience sharing forums, IT tools in support of KM (wikis, network tools, mobile networks, SMS connections), community workshops on setting up knowledge sharing, KM for the national level.
  • There are also several quite simple to use but innovative techniques for KM: story telling, poster sharing, KM audit, open space in virtual setting.
  • Use of Google and other IT Tools was discussed. Some of the tools covered:


Further reading


Sources

The ADB KM4Dev Forum website

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