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Digest
January 6, 2011
Happy New Year! We hope that you had a memorable holiday season.
Welcome to those who recently joined our growing KM Impact Challenge community of over 100+ members!
Thanks to those of you who submitted case stories and shared resources, some of which are highlighted below. We want to invite the rest of you to submit a case story and help us share this opportunity with others. There are still a few days left for the Early Entry Award. Submit your story online at http://kdid.org/kmic by January 9th to be eligible to win a USD$1,000 professional development award.
The KM Impact Challenge will be open to receive case story submissions until January 30, 2011.
Best Wishes,
The KM Impact Challenge Team
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Recent Case Story Entries
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EthnoCorder: An Innovation in Mobile Data Collection and Use
Submitted by Nathan Horst, Help Channel Burundi | Burundi Participatory research is a key to understanding complex contexts, but utilizing the results for learning and decision-making is difficult. In December 2009, I began advising a local Burundian NGO on strengthening their knowledge management systems to support a food assistance project aimed at addressing the impact of war, famine, and long-term food insecurity in Burundi's rural provinces. This is the story of a KM initiative undertaken within a small local NGO in a small Sub-Saharan nation, both characterized by complexity, limited capacities, and opportunities for innovation. READ MORE
Connecting Arid Lands Communities With Knowledge
Submitted by Anthony Mugo, Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) | Kenya The ALIN Maarifa (Knowledge) centers initiative involves delivering internet connectivity together with more traditional forms of information to communities living in some of the most remote parts of East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania). A Maarifa center is a space: a room or a modified stand-alone shipping container equipped with at least five computers connected to broadband internet either through a GSM router or VSAT. Information is tailor-made to suit the needs of each community but it is predominantly on best practices in agriculture and livestock, environmental conservation (climate change), gender, HIV/AIDS and other livelihoods concerns. READ MORE
Knowledge Sharing for Democracy Assistance
Submitted by Kim Bettcher, Center for International Private Enterprise | United States The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) Knowledge Management initiative shares lessons, strategies, and case studies among CIPE's partner network and a diverse range of governance reform leaders. Established in 2005, the program helps amplify CIPE's impact and fosters organizational learning. This initiative focuses on lessons linked to the mission of strengthening democracy around the world through private enterprise and market-oriented reform. Staff relies on knowledge management for program development and training materials, while private sector partners look to CIPE for ideas and models in their efforts. READ MORE
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| Recent Challenge Blog Posts
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In this blog post we continue our series of interviews with members of the Technical Advisory Group. I talked to Sophie Alvarez and Simone Staiger from CIAT who were kind enough to share their thoughts on why the question of measuring the impact of KM is so difficult. The post outlines a number of the contradictions between Impact Assessment and KM and suggests some practical tips and tools to help us... READ MORE
Systemic Approaches in Evaluation: Event January 25th/26th, 2011 By Jeff Kwaterski This upcoming event from GTZ / BMZ will be of interest to many of us exploring how to measure what matters in our knowledge and learning initiatives. The following is an excerpt from the GTZ web site: On January 25 and 26, 2011 the Evaluation and Audit Division of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Evaluation Unit of GTZ offer a forum to discuss systemic approaches to evaluation at an international conference. On the basis of presentations... READ MORE
Interview with Jorge Chavez-Tafur, editor of "Framing Matters" By Louise Clark
In order to stimulate our discussions and inspire you to submit your stories to the KM Impact Challenge we present the first in a series of interviews with members of our Technical Advisory Group. Jorge Chavez-Tafur, the editor of Farming Matters, is a member of our TAG and in this blog post discusses some... READ MORE |
| From the Online Library Collection
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Evaluation in R&D management and knowledge use: a knowledge value mapping approach to currency accessible to the visually impaired
Author(s): Juan D Rogers Organization: Research Evaluation Journal The dynamics of knowledge flow between R&D activities and a diverse set of actual or potential users is clearly critical to the realization of desired outcomes. However, current R&D evaluation frameworks focus almost exclusively on measurable discrete outputs and outcomes. We show that more general categories of the realization of values from the creation and utilization of knowledge are needed to make R&D evaluation more relevant to R&D program management... READ MORE
Outcome Mapping Virtual Learning Community
Author(s): Outcome Mapping Users Organization: Outcome Mapping Community The Outcome Mapping Learning Community is an informal group of over a thousand members from around the world. It acts largely as a dynamic platform for sharing knowledge and experiences relating to Outcome Mapping. Members come together to solve problems, to showcase and trade their discoveries and good practices, and to support one another in applying OM. The platform is owned, populated and updated by OM users worldwide. It includes a... READ MORE |
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| The KM Impact Challenge is an initiative of USAID's Knowledge-Driven Microenterprise Development (KDMD) Project |
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