Online collaboration trends and actions for more effective international development
In 2001, Dgroups Foundation partners were firming up ideas for a new ‘dgroups’ collaboration to extend online communication, collaboration and dialogue opportunities in the development and humanitarian spaces. Inspired by the then ‘egroups’ platform, in early 2002 we set up a platform to reinforce online collaboration by providing accessible, affordable and open virtual email-based workspaces …
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Brief summarises lessons for more effective online collaboration, dialogue, and interaction in international development
Last year, as the entire development community moved online, the Dgroups Foundation teamed up with partners to take stock of good practices in facilitating and sustaining online and virtual communities and interactions. This included a knowledge café in May that identified four critical success factors for online collaboration, a KM4Dev@20 workshop in July, an e-conference …
Online interaction in international development: Capitalizing on lessons from an e-conference
Discussions in the recent Foundation-convened e-conference flagged five priority topics essential to effective online dialogue and interaction: Enhancing #participation and #engagement Nurturing effective #COPs Using appropriate #platforms #Learning through e-collaboration #Sustaining engagement through time On 24 September, the Dgroups Foundation facilitated an online meeting to discuss whether these are indeed ‘the’ critical issues and ways …