Dgroups Foundation Knowledge and Learning Exchange 2025 – Collaboration Futures: Strengthening online communities and practices
The Dgroups Foundation Knowledge and Learning Exchange 2025 will take place online on Thursday 20 November from 14:00 to 15:30 CET (13:00-14:30 UTC). This 90-minute interactive session will bring together online facilitators, knowledge managers, and practitioners from across international development, humanitarian, and social justice networks to explore how online collaboration can become more effective and …
Online collaboration use cases in-depth – a talk show
As part of a recent virtual discussion around online collaboration use cases, Saskia Harmsen hosted a talk show in which five Dgroups Foundation partners introduced their groups as examples of different collaboration use cases encountered online. IFAD Innovation Network Gladys Morales presented the IFAD innovation network as an example of using online groups to discuss an issue in …
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A use case for online support and interaction around events
As part of a virtual discussion around online collaboration use cases, the Dgroups Foundation recently organized a ‘peer assist’ session to explore ways to maximize the use of online group features to support face-to-face and other events. Jessica Ball brought the questions. She works as part of the KM Team in the UN-REDD programme. Last …
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Exploring use cases for online communities and groups
While development and humanitarian organizations tend to use similar online tools and platforms to collaborate, we tend to use them in different ways and for different purposes. Exploring and sharing tips from these different uses was the focus of a recent Dgroups Foundation online partner experience exchange. The experience-sharing session on 24 February 2023 drew …
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2022 in review: Dgroups Foundation highlights
Last year saw the Dgroups Foundation expand its activities, with new projects and events as well as new partners and collaborators. Below we introduce some of the initiatives we worked on in 2022. Projects and events New partners Six organisations have joined the Dgroups Partnership over the past few months: As usual, we are keen …
Online dialogue with and for the next generation – ten suggestions for more effective engagement
by Jessica Ball and Pier Andrea Pirani Development and humanitarian organisations increasingly want to include and act upon young people’s voices, opinions, and insights. The past five years have seen a blossoming of youth activist movements across the globe, leading to the amplification of youth voices working across the intersections of climate, environment, and social …
Youth in dialogues – Online event
Thursday 11 August 2022 – 2 pm CEST – check time in your time zone Registration link: https://bit.ly/3yRXCle Development and humanitarian organisations increasingly want to include and act upon the voices, opinions, and insights of young people. They often do this by setting up specific youth dialogues and fora, by inviting youth into other events …
Supporting virtual meetings – The Digital Agri Hub regional launch events
Between January and April, we collaborated with the Digital Agri Hub to support three regional launch events – in Spanish for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), in French for the Africa Francophone regions, and in English for Asia. In total, over 1630 participants registered for these events and 712 joined online. These events shared …
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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.
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 …