Save the date! Dgroups Partners Meeting 2016

We’re pleased to announce that the 2016 Dgroups Partners Meeting will take place on 14th September, 2016, and it will be hosted and co-organized with IDS in the context of the Eldis 20th Anniversary Workshop. The Eldis 20th Anniversary Workshop aims “to bring together knowledge brokers and communications professionals to share learning on the current “state-of-the-art” in digital knowledge sharing …

Dgroups welcomes three new partner organizations

Between end 2015 and beginning 2016, three new organizations have joined the Dgroups Foundation: IDS and UNISDR as Full Dgroups Partners; Savana Signature as Associate Partner. The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is a well established actor in the development sector, being a “leading global institution for development research, teaching and learning, and impact and communications.” Based at the …

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 …

cinfo joins Dgroups

We’re happy to announce that the cinfo – the Centre for Information, Counselling and Training for Professions relating to International Cooperation – has recently joined the Dgroups Partnership. Based in Biel, Switzerland, cinfo is:As we read from its website: a specialised service provider and the network platform for professionals and organisations involved in the IC job …

Dgroups webinar – Developing and supporting your Dgroup

After the first Dgroups Communities webinar held last month, this week we organized the second event in this series of three online webinars. The theme for this session was how to develop and support an online community. Facilitated by Lucie Lamoureux (KM4D Associates) the session was designed around three presentation blocks of about 12 minutes, …

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 – …