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Welcome to the IKM Emergent Website. It, like the programme it is part of, aims to explore, through multiple lenses and a variety of perspectives, what information and knowledges are used in the international development sector, how they are expressed, handled and received, and the possibilities for change if we are to make best use of emerging informational developments in the way we understand our work and communicate with others.

For further information about IKM Emergent, see 'About the programme'.

For everything else this is a working website. What is here now is only the start of what will grow over the coming years, illustrating the many aspects of the programme and the issues it aims to cover. We intend to use it to display news and information about the programme; to collaboratively build workspaces, dedicated to exploring particular issues; and to map out the subject areas of the programme and collectively build an annotated bibliography. All spaces on this site are moderated by section editors but we welcome all contributions to the development of this work, or references to related work being done by others, and will indicate on the appropriate pages the contact details of the relevant editor.

What's new

IKM Emergent

Newsletter No. 3 now online

The March 2009 newsletter of IKM Emergent is now online here. It covers work-in-progress, external conversations, traducture and many more things…

(Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:31:16 +0100)

Share Fair at the FAO

Mike Powell and Sarah Cummings of IKM Emergent both participated in the Share Fair at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) which took place on 20-22 January 2009. The Share Fair was an event with a difference. It was buzzing, informal, sometimes chaotic and always dynamic, with more than 900 visitors from a huge variety of [...]

(Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:32:40 +0100)

Chain Reaction

Michael David and Dan Baron of IKM Working Group 1 were among a group of IKM Emergent programme members who attended the Chain Reaction event in London, UK, on 17-18 November 2008. Chain Reaction brought together social leaders, community activists, policy makers, business leaders, and young people from around the globe to share learning and to [...]

(Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:50:24 +0100)

New member of Working Group 3

Valerie A. Brown, Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, at the Australian National University, is a new member of IKM Emergent’s Working Group 3: Management of knowledge. Valerie Brown’s research applies integrative methods to exploring the construction of knowledge in generating locally sustainable responses to global social and environmental pressures. Past research programs have addressed the capacity for [...]

(Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:47:08 +0100)

Our reflections on the process

These reflections are derived from a blog being used by IKM Emergent to document the process of undertaking an iterative programme

The process diary...

Research into participatory processes: what happened?

Kate Newman and I have been working with the IKM Emergent Research Programme to develop some research into the flow (and use) of information generated by participatory processes, with a particular focus on international development organisations. This is the story of our experience to date… Our own experience, working in ActionAid on participatory approaches and methods, since [...]

(Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:24:50 +0200)

Digital storytelling in Sri Lanka ? a preliminary discussion of evaluation

Introduction to Michael and his environment Michael David has been involved long term in community development projects in Sri Lanka and is part of a network of concerned family, friends and colleagues who do whatever they can to access funds, provoke discussion and thinking, or undertake projects. Michael and colleagues are maven-like in making [...]

(Tue, 26 May 2009 17:05:58 +0200)

Our reflections on the content of the Programme

These reflections are derived from a blog being run by a core of members from Working Group 3, plus a number of colleagues from the broader field of knowledge management for development.

The giraffe

First IKM Interactive workshop

On June the 2nd and 3rd the first of a series of IKM interactive sessions was held with the information managers  of 11 Organisations working in Francophone Africa. The workshop in Dakar, Senegal, was hosted by CODESRIA at the AUF Campus Numérique. The meeting focused on the use of new opportunities provided by the Internet and [...]

(Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:36:01 +0200)

Measurement of knowledge management

Yesterday afternoon, together with a Context colleague Peter Das, I went to a knowledge cafe (kennis cafe) on the measurement of knowledge management. It was organised by the Centre for Research in Intellectual Capital (Kenniskring) of InHolland University for Applied Sciences. There were two presentations: one of a research project by Guy Mestrini to measure [...]

(Thu, 28 May 2009 10:50:42 +0200)

Managing ?le savoir?

The date is set: 5 October 2009, in back to back with the annual KM4DEV event, the first cobbles on the road to a francophone community of practice on learning for development will be paved, in Brussels the modern Babel tower! The objectives are two-fold: - to introduce the IKM Emergent discourse in the francophone arena; - to [...]

(Tue, 19 May 2009 09:54:41 +0200)

Welcome, Bernike

This post is to give a warm welcome to Bernike Pasveer of the European Centre for Development Policy Management who is going to be blogging with us here on The Giraffe.

(Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:17:57 +0200)