For more than twenty years, people working in the development and humanitarian sectors have connected and collaborated online – by email, through websites and intranets, in virtual meetings and platforms, and through social media. Starting in 2002, Dgroups has been at the forefront of enhancing online collaboration and interaction by bringing people together around a technical platform and associated supporting activities.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the uptake of online platforms and enhanced digital skills across the globe. As we moved online and worked remotely, individuals, organisations, and communities upped their digital toolkit, took advantage of new and improved tools and platforms, and learned new approaches to online collaboration and engagement.
As we look around and forwards, the online spaces remain important, but with digital fatigue setting in, and an acknowledgement that relationship building, trust and knowledge sharing thrive when people meet face-to-face, we also see the return of in-person meetings as well as hybrid interactions.
In sectors like ours where collaboration, sharing and interaction are important to our collective effectiveness and impact, we can see where we came from, but where are we going?
To help produce an updated online collaboration/interaction snapshot, the Dgroups Foundation invites you to take a short survey that 1) maps how and why we are collaborating online and 2), optionally, looks across different platforms and tools on the market.
To maximise the usefulness of this effort, the results will be publicly shared and be the subject of an online webinar and dialogue to be held in December 2024.
Take the survey now: https://forms.gle/ykHsCgqfMekufsua7