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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 and what it has produced, see 'About the programme' or 'Documents'.

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.

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IKM Emergent

Predictability versus emergence in development

Last year IKM teamed up with some participants in the Bridging the Digital Divide Group of projects and members of the Information Systems Group at the Judge Business School to look at the tensions between desires for predictability and control as against unpredictability and emergence.  This started with a critical look at ICT4D research and [...]

(Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:09:43 +0000)

Working papers and workshop on the use of information derived from participatory methodologies.

I am pleased to say that we have finally got IKM Working Papers 6 and 7 onto our web pages.  Apologies for the delay but very good final drafts had been available on the site for some time, which slightly reduced the urgency of publishing the final versions.  Anyway Working Paper 6  Learning from, promoting [...]

(Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:24:09 +0000)

Synthesis Report

The half way stage of the programme prompted reflection on a number of levels on what we have done and where the programme is going.  The end result is a Synthesis report, produced in October 2009, which can be downloaded from http://wiki.ikmemergent.net/files/0910-synthesis-v3.2.doc

(Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:35:51 +0000)

IKM Working Paper: Literature review of policy-making as discourse

The fifth IKM Emergent Working Paper Policy-making as discourse: a review of recent knowledge-to-policy literature, written by Harry Jones of Research in Policy and Development (RAPID) and published with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), is online from today. It has been published to coincide with the event Knowledge, policy and power held at ODI at [...]

(Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:03:22 +0000)

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...

Communications 2010 (Part 2)

I’m currently reviewing the Communications Strategy of IKM – originally written in 2007 and published as a Background Paper in 2008 – at the same time as producing a Communications work plan for 2010. The Communications Strategy in 2007 placed a lot of emphasis on the the ’stickiness’ of ideas and the need for IKM to [...]

(Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:50:56 +0000)

Communications 2010 (Part 1)

Since the development of the Synthesis report in 2009, IKM’s messages are now more clearly defined. And they aren’t half complex. Not only are they very complex because they are concerned with what is a very complex field – information and knowledge for development – but also because they are not clear guidelines but, rather, they [...]

(Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:01:17 +0000)

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

Around the MandE table: a cooking lesson?

Much has happened since Simon and I started working on this paper about the monitoring and evaluation of knowledge management (M&E of KM, see original post here) and the cooking lesson continues, for us anyway and hopefully for you too, as in this case there are not too many cooks! On the KM4DEV mailing list, there [...]

(Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:53:07 +0000)

Methodological paradigms of the M&E of KM

I’ve been working on a small section of our paper on the monitoring and evaluation of KM (see Ewen’s earlier blog) and wanted to share some emerging ideas. The section is attempting to communicate IKMs epistemological perspective by introducing two dimensions (originally described by Chris Mowles in his comments on Ewen’s blog): the perspective of enquiry and the perspective of knowledge held [...]

(Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:36:16 +0000)

Not the Semantic Web, part two

This is a second post reporting on the Semantic Web stream at the 09 Online Information Conference, with the next four points that struck me as important. In this post we look more at the processes involved in engaging with the Linked Data web. A useful UK resource for following developments is the Nodalities blog [...]

(Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:25:42 +0000)

Monitoring knowledge (management): an impossible task?

It isn’t an impossible task to monitor/evaluate (M&E) intangibles, knowledge or knowledge management (KM), but it requires a series of tough choices in a maze of possibles. This is what Simon Hearn and myself are discovering, trying to summarise, synthesise and build upon the two M&E of KM papers commissioned earlier, as well as the [...]

(Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:35:31 +0000)

Linked Open Data Web (or, Not the Semantic Web)

At the 09 Online Information Conference there was a strand called “The Semantic Web, Coming of Age”. Mike Powell, Dejan Dincic and I attended for IKMemergent. We came away with a clear sense that there are some significant developments taking place and it is an issue that will impact the people and organisations we work [...]

(Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:52:26 +0000)

Some other related resources

Other blogs are being run by members of IKM Emergent to support initiatives on digital story telling and local content. They include:

ChilliMango

Content, not mere form, is crucial ? Tanya Notley

Tanya Notley

(Thu, 07 May 2009 23:36:23 +0000)

Water! Water!

 ?There was water all around but the plantation workers, but they dont have a little clean water to drink.? PrithiviRaj Pavithran, a community radio broadcaster from Kotmale, explains the story behind his digital story on how the plantation workers are affected by water scarcity and lack of sanitation facility.  Lets listen to Pavi       I was producing a programme [...]

(Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:56:31 +0000)