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 …
2021 in review: Dgroups Foundation highlights
The past year was busy as the Foundation and partners continued operating in mostly virtual modes where effective online interactions were a priority. Below we provide a flavour of the collaborations we worked on; we also worked behind the scenes to strengthen the Foundation’s operations – check out the ABCD of Dgroups that introduces what …
Introducing the online community connector
Over the past months, we have been working to develop the ‘community connector ‘ – a public, searchable database and directory of online groups and communities in the development and humanitarian sector working towards shared sustainable development goals. Version 1.0 of the connector is now live and you can browse and search the initial set …
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 …
Case study: Using Dgroups to map rules and regulations governing the use of drones
Giacomo Rambaldi from CTA is a long time user and supporter of Dgroups, having used the platform for more than a decade now. During a recent webinar organized in partnership between FAO-Dgroups, Giacomo presented one specific Dgroup he is administering and that deals with the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones technology for agriculture. Watch …
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Testimonials: What would have happened without Dgroups?
Dgroups is home of many groups and communities and several development practitioners have successfully used the Dgroups platform to support and enable their work. With this blog – a re-post from Sarah Cummings’ original piece – we are starting to collect testimonials of how Dgroups has helped users in their work. At the moment, there …
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Learning from our peers – Email and online forums for health and development professionals
The third Dgroups Online Peer Exchange session took place on Monday 15 July 2013. With a thematic focus on email and online forums for health and development professionals, the session was organised together with the Knowledge Gateway, which is running on the same technology that powers Dgroups and that is developed and supported by WA Research. In this …
Slides from the Dgroups Peer Exchange – 15 July 2013
The third Dgroups Online Peer Exchange session took place last Monday 15 July 2013. For this session, we had the pleasure to have as speaker Angela Nash-Mercado from Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programme and K4Health, who presented the Knowledge Gateway. This platform is running on the same technology that powers Dgroups and that …
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