
How we collaborate online: Insights from a Dgroups Foundation survey
As digital collaboration continues to evolve, in late 2024, the Dgroups Foundation conducted a short online survey to better understand how professionals across the development and humanitarian sectors are engaging, sharing, and working together online. Here we summarize what we heard from the 43 respondents from a wide range of organizations – including INGOs, UN …
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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 …