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Newsletters
- Newsletter No 1, November 2007
- Newsletter No 2, June 2008
- Newsletter No 3, March 2009
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 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. The evaluation is a continuous process which allows the steering group and programme management to learn from the feedback Chris gives 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)
IKM Summaries
These represent long summaries of research undertaken to date. They will shortly be available in English, French and Spanish.
Summary: Meta-review and scoping study WP1 English
Summary: Communicating information and knowledge WP2 English
Summary: Monitoring and evaluation of knowledge WP3 English
Summary: Learning networks for bridging knowledge divides WP4 English
Summary: Knowledge and policy in development WP5 English
In addition this is a summary of work in progress 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
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. Five such papers have been published to date.
- Meta-review and scoping study by Julie Ferguson, Kingo Mchombu and Sarah Cummings, March 2008
- Communicating information and knowledge management: challenges and approaches by Deepthi Wickremasinghe, April 2008
- Monitoring and evaluation in knowledge management for development by Serafin Talisayon, August 2009
- Learning networks for bridging development divides by Laxmi Pant, August 2009
- Policy-making as discourse: a review of recent knowledge-to-policy literature by Harry Jones, September 2009
- Learning from, promoting and using participation: The case of international development organizations in Kenya by Stephen Kirimi and Eliud Wakwabubi, October 2009
- How wide are the Ripples? by Hannah Beardon and Kate Newman, October 2009
- Knowledge management and multiple knowledges: a multi-case study within the development sectorby Paula Zirschky, December 2009
- Good planning or benign imposition? Innovation, emergence and risk in developmental research:Learning from ICTD by Adnan Rafiq and Nazish Gulzar, February 2010
Associated Material
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.
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
Michael David has been working with people from a number of sectors to explore the potential of digital story telling and teleradio in Sri Lanka. 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
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 blogging about their experiences (in Spanish but with English summaries) on Historias Communitarias
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.
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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