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 …
Setting up a community space on forest solutions to the climate crisis
In November 2022 the Dgroups Foundation started to work with UN-REDD to help incubate and support a dedicated community space discussing forest solutions to the climate crisis. “UN-REDD is the flagship UN knowledge and advisory partnership on forests and climate to reduce forest emissions and enhance forest carbon stocks. It is the largest international provider …
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Implementing group donation feature for the KM4Dev online community
Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) is a global networked community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches. The KM4Dev email list, hosted by the Dgroups Foundation on its groups.io platform, is the community’s primary exchange platform. To cover the running costs of KM4Dev ICT infrastructure – …
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Scaling up of the CGIAR GENDER impact platform
In January 2020, the Dgroups Foundation setup and incubated an information sharing and discussion space to support the work of theCGIAR GENDER impact platform that synthesises and amplifies research, fills gaps, builds capacity and sets directions to enable CGIAR to have maximum impact on gender equality, opportunities for youth and social inclusion in agriculture and …
Incubating a Fair Digital Finance Accelerator online community
The Fair Digital Finance Accelerator is a three-year consumer advocacy project hosted by Consumers International in collaboration with consumer associations in Low- and Middle-Income countries. The Dgroups Foundation is working with the Fair Digital Finance Accelerator to help establish an online community of consumer associations in Low- and Middle-Income countries and a platform for collaborative …
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Setting up a community of practice for food security early action
In 2022, the Jameel Observatory partnered with the Dgroups Foundation to set up an online community space. The Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action is an international partnership led by the University of Edinburgh collaborating with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Save the Children, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and …
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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 …
Shaping digital agricultural capacities – a D4Ag online dialogue
From 19 November to 15 December 2021, the Dgroups Foundation partnered with the Digital Agri Hub to support and facilitate an online dialogue on Shaping Digital Agricultural Capacities. The objectives of the dialogue were to: Fill gaps in knowledge on current capacity building products on D4Ag Identify capacity building needs, gaps and priorities for different …
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Online collaboration trends and actions for more effective international development
In 2001, Dgroups Foundation partners were firming up ideas for a new ‘dgroups’ collaboration to extend online communication, collaboration and dialogue opportunities in the development and humanitarian spaces. Inspired by the then ‘egroups’ platform, in early 2002 we set up a platform to reinforce online collaboration by providing accessible, affordable and open virtual email-based workspaces …
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Closing fishbowl – Online collaboration futures for more effective international development
On 29 October 2021, the Dgroups Foundation hosted an online partnership dialogue where we looked forward to 2030 to discuss how online collaboration will evolve. During the closing fishbowl moderated by Saskia Harmsen, Giacomo Rambaldi, Hannah Kabelka, Neil Pakenham-Walsh, and Tarini Ross reflected on the meeting, the issues that emerged, and the main takeaways. See the recording of the …