Dgroups Online Peer Exchange – 16 April 2013
After the successful event held last November, the second Dgroups Peer Exchange session will take place on 16 April 2013 from 1400 to 1600 (Amsterdam time). This is an open session for all with an interest in Dgroups, to discuss how to use Dgroups to effectively support communications, knowledge sharing and learning in their work. Two presentations …
Learning from our peers – How RWSN and FARA use Dgroups
The Dgroups Foundation hosted our first Online Peer Exchange session on 15 November 2012, in order to strengthen peer-to-peer learning among Dgroups Partners, moderators, and users, earlier. The meeting, organized in the context of the 2012 Dgroups Annual Meeting, brought together some twenty people to learn from two organizations how they have put Dgroups to …
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Slides from the Dgroups 2012 Online Peer Exchange
On 15 November 2012, the Dgroups Foundation hosted an online peer exchange session. The event was organized in the context of the 2012 Dgroups Annual Meeting. During the peer exchange, two Dgroups partners organizations shared their experiences in working with Dgroups and making the most of it to support daily business practices. The slides are …
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New feature – Mapping your Dgroups members
When they started working on the new Dgroups interface, WA-Research promised that this would not be just a facelift. The new Dgroups is clearly much more stable and user friendly and new features are continuously being added. Some are already in production, and offer users and administrators new tools to improve the way the use …
Dgroups 2012 Annual Meeting and Online Peer Exchange – 15 November 2012
After the 2011 meeting held last year in Rome during the ShareFair, we’re excited to announce the 2012 Dgroups Annual Meeting, which will take place online on 15 November 2012 starting at 1400 GMT to 1630 GMT. Registration are open on this Eventbrite page. This event comes at a very important time for Dgroups. The …
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Dgroups elects new Chairman of the Board
In the last meeting on 24th April, 2012, the Board of the Dgroups Foundation elected its new Chairman. The outgoing Chair, Caroline Figuères (IICD) has been the first ever chair of the Dgroups Foundation after this has been established in 2009. In her words, the past three years as Chair of Dgroups have been “a challenging …
Towards Next Dgroups and beyond
On April 24th, 2012 a meeting was held in The Hague to review the progress and future of Dgroups. The meeting brought together all Dgroups board members and Damir Simunic, director of WA Research, which has provided the technical platform for Dgroups for the past 2 years and has led the redesign of next Dgroups. …
New Board, new platform, renewed commitments – Dgroups partners meeting 2011
The Dgroups membership met last week in Rome during the Rome 2011 Share Fair for the 2011 Partners meeting. This was the first face to face meeting of the Dgroups partners since 2009, when we met in The Hague just after the Foundation was created and the migration of the platform to WA-Research was completed. The meeting …
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New Dgroups Board members nominated
During the 2011 Dgroups Partners meeting that took place in Rome on 27 September 2011, the partnership council nominated 3 new members to the Dgroups Partnership Board: Giacomo Rambaldi, from CTA Kristin Kolshus, from FAO Neil Pakenham Walsh, on behalf of INASP The three new members join Caroline Figuères (IICD, Chairman of the Dgroups Board), …
Dgroups at Share Fair 2011
From next Monday to 29 September 2011 IFAD in Rome will host the the second AgriKnowledge Share Fair. After the previous Share Fairs in Addis Ababa (2010) and Rome (2009), also the programme and design for this year event looks impressive: more than 150 sharing and learning sessions on issues related to rural development and agriculture; …