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IKM Background Material

Programme overview (summary)
This is our current two page leaflet, which provides a summary of what the Programme is about.
Programme Synthesis
This document presents our 'half-time' understanding of what the programme is doing and where it is going. It was written casino in October 2009.
Programme overview (detailed)
This 23-page document Emergent Issues in Information and Knowledge Management and International Development provides a detailed overview of the Research Programme’s rationale, objectives, and members. This version is from 19 July 2007
Which knowledge? Whose reality? An overview of knowledge used in the development sector.
This article, originally published in Development in Practice (16.6) in November 2006 was intended to set out the rationale for the project and the analysis from which it started The article is copyright Oxfam.

Evaluation

IKM Emergent has presented Chris Mowles of Red Kite Partners with the challenge of evaluating the programme, jointly with Anita Gurumurthy of It for Change. The evaluation is a continuous process which allows the steering group and programme management to learn from the feedback Chris and Anita international portfolio inc give us as the programme progresses. Red Kite have been asked to develop an evaluation methodology appropriate for the iterative nature of the programme and its interest in emergent issues. The evaluation thus has the potential to contribute to the programme's exploration of new knowledge and learning related methodologies for the development sector as well as fulfil its internal function. The programme intends to make its evaluations public.

Initial evaluation review (2008)

Interim report (2009)

Fourth IKM Evaluation Report (2011)

Working Papers

The programme produces a range of material in various formats. Contributions which relate specifically to the development of our thinking on the issues the programme hopes to address or have been commissioned to contribute to this development - are published as working papers. Thirteen such papers have been published to date.

As an experiment in seeking other ways to communicate the main points and arguments of longer papers written in an academic style to other potential users of the information, a substantive summary of each paper - intended to work as a stand alone document rather than as some sort of abstract - has been produced and also made available in French and Spanish.



Background papers

IKM has produced a number of background papers:

Other papers

IKM has also produced a number of other papers, published elsewhere. For papers of more than a year old, this includes a link to the final author's copy. For newer papers, there is a link to the online abstract.

Ewen le Borgne and Sarah Cummings (2009) The tip of the iceberg: tentative first steps in cross-organisational comparison of knowledge management in development organisations. Knowledge Management for Development Journal 5(1) 39-60

Iina Hellsten and Sarah Cummings (2010)Using semantics to reveal knowledge divides in Dutch development cooperation: the case of the Millennium Development Goals. Knowledge Management for Development Journal 6(1) 70-84

Valerie A. Brown (2010) link Multiple knowledges, multiple languages: are the limits of my language the limits of my world? Knowledge Management for Development Journal 6(2) 120-131

Mike Powell and Sarah Cummings (2010) Progress to date of the IKM Emergent Research Programme: synthesis, understandings and lessons learned. Knowledge Management for Development Journal 6(2) 132-150

Sarah Cummings (2010) of the four musketeers. Peer review of 'Knowledge management for development communities: balancing in the thin divide between tacit and codified knowledge' by Alfonso Acuna. Knowledge Management for Development Journal 6(2) 132-150


Associated Material

Linked Open Information

A Discussion Note explains our interest in this topic. It follows experimental work and a workshop, organised by IKM in November 2010, which considered applications of linked data concerning development related information and the potential implications of such applications for the development information environment.  A   background paper outlined the rationale behind this initiative. A Draft Report of the meeting was published in December and will be followed up with working papers in 2011.

Emergence versus Control

IKM has been working with colleagues from the Bridging the Digital Divide group and from the Information Systems Group at the Judge Business School looking at the tensions between desires for predictability and control as against unpredictability and emergence in development research and development management more generally. The report of the workshop organised as part of this process in Cambridge in September 2009 is published as Working Paper no 9 above.  This is the summary of continuing work in this area published in February 2010.

Knowledge for Development

In November 2009, IKM, jointly with CTA and the University of Namibia hosted a Knowledge for Development in Africa workshop in Windoek. CTA has produced the Workshop Report.

Local Content

Pete Cranston and Peter Ballantyne organised a workshop in Terveuren, Belgium in October 2009 as part of a continuing project aimed at better understanding, supporting and promoting the use (at all levels) of locally produced information content. The Workshop Notes are now available. Reflections introduces Pete's thoughts on the process,links to a video introduction. Plans for more work on this theme in 2010 will be announced soon.

Platforms for Sharing Local Digital Content

Michael David has been working with people from a number of sectors to explore the potential of digital story telling and telradio in Sri Lanka. IKM has published his original Telradio concept note as an IKM Background Paper. Some of his experience and links to many examples can be found on his blog Chillimango and, more recently, the Sri Lanka local media site, Telradio.

In June 2008 IKM Emergent, jointly with IT for change, hosted a workshop in Bangalore looking at the cultural and developmental issues related to digital story telling in India. It for Change subsequently produced the workshop report: Digital Story Telling

Building Shared Community Knowledges

Kemly Camacho and the Sula Batsu co-operative in Costa Rica have been working with a number of communities in Costa Rica and Nicaragua to explore community knowledge of issues related to water. They have been writing about their experiences in a series of blogs (in Spanish and English), which are brought together in Our Project


The IKM Installation

Ralph Borland created an installation for IKM at the Triennial EADI conference hosted, in 2008, by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. This links to photos of the installation.


IKM Presentations

Apologies, but these are quite bandwidth hungry

Knowledges, Dialogue and Translations : shifting the gaze and practice through traducture, Martha Chinouya and Wangui wa Goro talking at the IKM session at the EADI conference, Geneva, June 2008

Reconciling Multiple knowledges: learning from the field, Valerie Brown talking at the IKM session at the EADI conference, Geneva, June 2008

Multiple Knowledges: views from the IKM programme, Mike Powell speaking at the CTA/IKM/ University of Namibia workshop on Knowledge for Development, Windhoek, November 2009

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