An introduction to Dgroups [9-minute video presentation]
Dgroups is a longstanding, successful international development initiative, like few others. It has been online since 2002, and hundreds of thousands of development professionals use it regularly in their work. Some, however, may be less familiar with it or may have just heard about it. So what is Dgroups? During a recent webinar organized in …
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Recording and slides from the webinar on Dgroups: simple solutions for building communities in your organization
The webinar on Dgroups: simple solutions for building communities in your organization, organized in partnership with FAO, took place on 22 March, 2018. About 70 people joined the live event; several more had registered and expressed the interest to receive the webinar recording. The full session is now available for playback on our YouTube channel and …
[Webinar] Dgroups: simple solutions for building communities in your organization
Have you ever looked for an easy solution to create networks and communities of practice within your organization? Would you like a simple, non-commercial tool, respectful of privacy for team discussions? Do you need a knowledge exchange solution that is compatible with low bandwidth users in the South? Dgroups can offer you the perfect solution. …
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Dgroups welcomes four new partner organizations
The Dgroups Partnerships keeps growing, with four organizations having recently joined the Dgroups Foundation: Global Healthcare Information Network CIC (GHI-net) and C3 Collaborating for Health as Associate Partners; Charter for Change and Personas Facilitadoras DT as Project Partners. Global Healthcare Information Network CIC (GHI-net) is a “non-profit organisation established in 2005 to administer the global initiative HIFA (Healthcare Information For All). […] …
Presentations and report Dgroups Annual Partners Meeting 2017
The 2017 Dgroups Annual Partners Meeting was held on 30 November 2017. This year’s meeting was held online using Adobe Connect. A total of 15 participants joined the meeting, representing 6 of the 16 Full Dgroups Partners and 5 of the 8 Associate Partners. Damir Simunic and Joe Canda from WA-Research also joined the meeting. The agenda of …
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Dgroups Annual Partners Meeting – 30 November 2017
In the last Board meeting, the Board of the Dgroups Foundation has set the date for the 2017 Dgroups Annual Partners Meeting. This year’s meeting will be held online on Thursday 30th November 2017, from 10 am to 12 pm (Amsterdam, Rome, Brussels – you can check the exact time in your timezone using this link: http://ow.ly/qXe330g3F35. …
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Case study: Using Dgroups to scale up online networking and communication in the Rural Water Supply Network
This case study describes why RWSN has chosen to use Dgroups as their main tool for communicating with partners and clients all over the world. It explains how they’ve been using Dgroups and what results it helped the network achieve. Finally, it presents the key lessons learned by RWSN on what makes an active group, …
Dgroups at the Knowledge for Development (K4D) Conference
Dgroups was presented as an example of best practice at the Knowledge for Development Conference in Geneva, 3-4 April 2017. Neil Pakenham-Walsh, chair of the Dgroups foundation and founder of HIFA (Healthcare Information for All: five Dgroups with >16,000 members interacting in 3 languages) presented Dgroups to a diverse audience of more than 200 development …
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Dgroups is now available for time-limited projects
The Foundation is committed to make Dgroups accessible and affordable to all development organisations worldwide. For this reason, and to answer requests for membership in Dgroups received in recent months, the Dgroups Foundation has now introduced a new type of partnership into Dgroups: Project Partner. This membership type is available for time-limited activities that are …
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FAO, UNISDR project grants to support Dgroups improvements
During 2016, the Dgroups Foundation could count on additional financial support from FAO and UNISDR, through two separate project grants. FAO is a long standing partner in Dgroups since the early days of the platform, back in 2002-2004. For FAO, Dgroups is an established tool for communication, collaboration and networking in teams and projects, and …
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