Icebreaker - Dgroups session at KM4Dev20Years event

Critical factors for more effective online collaboration, dialogue and interaction in development

Last Friday, 70+ people joined a virtual workshop to share insights and experiences with online collaboration, dialogue and interaction in development. Part of the KM4Dev 20 years event on 2 and 3 July, the session applied an experience capitalization approach to identify ‘actionable knowledge’ that improves our practices in this area. Starting points … We …

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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 …

Dgroups webinar – Maintaining and troubleshooting your online community

The third and final Dgroups Communities Webinar took place on 15 June 2015 and focused on how to maintain and troubleshoot your online community. Facilitated by Lucie Lamoureux (KM4D Associates) the webinar was designed mostly as a peer-assist session. Two participants presented two case studies, illustrating the challenges they face in maintaining their communities of …

UNCDF, Access Agriculture join Dgroups

After the 3 organizations that joined earlier in 2014, the year 2014 closes with another good news for Dgroups. Two new organizations have just formalized their membership and have joined the Dgroups Foundation. The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s 48 least developed countries. Specifically: UNCDF provides seed capital – …

Dgroups leaflet in French, Spanish and Portuguese

We are delighted to announce the availability of our new introductory leaflet in 4 languages here: English [download  pdf] French [download  pdf Spanish [download  pdf] Portuguese [download  pdf] Please feel free to download and distribute these leaflets to your networks and contacts, and to print them out for distribution at meetings and conferences. The Dgroups Partnership is …

Google SMS version of Gmail in Africa – New opportunities for Dgroups users

I am excited to read the following news item on the BBC website (with thanks to Giacomo Rambaldi and Web2ForDev discussion list on Dgroups). Google launch SMS version of Gmail in Africa: Google has launched a text message-based version of its email service targeted at users in Africa. Gmail SMS can run on so-called “dumb phones” …