Regional launch of the Digital Agri Hub for Francophone regions
On 24 February, join us for the Digital Agri Hub regional launch event for the francophone regions. Register now! The event will explore the status and potential for scaling digitalization for agriculture (D4Ag) solutions in low and middle-income countries where the market is relatively weak compared to the role of public actors.
2021 in review: Dgroups Foundation highlights
The past year was busy as the Foundation and partners continued operating in mostly virtual modes where effective online interactions were a priority. Below we provide a flavour of the collaborations we worked on; we also worked behind the scenes to strengthen the Foundation’s operations – check out the ABCD of Dgroups that introduces what …
Shaping digital agricultural capacities – a D4Ag online dialogue
From 19 November to 15 December 2021, the Dgroups Foundation partnered with the Digital Agri Hub to support and facilitate an online dialogue on Shaping Digital Agricultural Capacities. The objectives of the dialogue were to: Fill gaps in knowledge on current capacity building products on D4Ag Identify capacity building needs, gaps and priorities for different …
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Closing fishbowl – Online collaboration futures for more effective international development
On 29 October 2021, the Dgroups Foundation hosted an online partnership dialogue where we looked forward to 2030 to discuss how online collaboration will evolve. During the closing fishbowl moderated by Saskia Harmsen, Giacomo Rambaldi, Hannah Kabelka, Neil Pakenham-Walsh, and Tarini Ross reflected on the meeting, the issues that emerged, and the main takeaways. See the recording of the …
Charter4Change – Adding value online
In January 2021, the Dgroups Foundation convened an online partnership dialogue to share and learn what value the Foundation and its partners provide through online communities dialogue and how this is delivered. In this video, Tarini Ross presents how Charter 4 Change (C4C) has been using email based discussion groups to facilitate and enable its …
Innov4AgPacific – Adding value online
In January 2021, the Dgroups Foundation convened an online partnership dialogue to share and learn what value the Foundation and its partners provide through online communities dialogue and how this is delivered. In this video Jana Dietershagen takes us to a quick journey through the Pacific talking about a four-year project on promoting nutritious food …
KM4Dev – Adding value online
In January 2021, the Dgroups Foundation convened an online partnership dialogue to share and learn what value the Foundation and its partners provide through online communities dialogue and how this is delivered. In this video, Rocio Sanz from the KM4Dev community provides a brief history and background of KM4Dev. She then talks about the KM4Dev …
Liberating our online Structures
During the Dgroups Partners Dialogue on Adding Value Online (January 2021), Ewen LeBorgne presented how Liberating Structures (LS) can be used to unleash participation and collaboration in online meetings and events. At its simplest, Liberating Structures could be presented as a set of 33 participation formats and facilitation methods. But really it’s a lot more …
Critical factors for more effective online collaboration, dialogue and interaction in development
Last Friday, 70+ people joined a virtual workshop to share insights and experiences with online collaboration, dialogue and interaction in development. Part of the KM4Dev 20 years event on 2 and 3 July, the session applied an experience capitalization approach to identify ‘actionable knowledge’ that improves our practices in this area. Starting points … We …
Online collaboration: Looking back to see into the future
Yesterday, Peter Ballantyne led a KM4Dev knowledge café about online collaboration. He shared some personal reflections and slides from the origin of Dgroups, showing how ideas and practice evolved, and he provided updates on the current plans of the Foundation and partnership today. He ended by posing some questions for participants to help identify the …
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