Case study: Using Dgroups to scale up online networking and communication in the Rural Water Supply Network
This case study describes why RWSN has chosen to use Dgroups as their main tool for communicating with partners and clients all over the world. It explains how they’ve been using Dgroups and what results it helped the network achieve. Finally, it presents the key lessons learned by RWSN on what makes an active group, …
Dgroups at the Knowledge for Development (K4D) Conference
Dgroups was presented as an example of best practice at the Knowledge for Development Conference in Geneva, 3-4 April 2017. Neil Pakenham-Walsh, chair of the Dgroups foundation and founder of HIFA (Healthcare Information for All: five Dgroups with >16,000 members interacting in 3 languages) presented Dgroups to a diverse audience of more than 200 development …
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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 …
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FAO, UNISDR project grants to support Dgroups improvements
During 2016, the Dgroups Foundation could count on additional financial support from FAO and UNISDR, through two separate project grants. FAO is a long standing partner in Dgroups since the early days of the platform, back in 2002-2004. For FAO, Dgroups is an established tool for communication, collaboration and networking in teams and projects, and …
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Communities of Practice – Increasing inclusiveness, value and collaboration. Real trends or wishful thinking?
Many Dgroups partners participated at the Eldis 20th Anniversary workshop on Digital Knowledge Sharing, held at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK on 15 and 16 September. Dgroups representatives Neil Pakenham-Walsh (Chair, Dgroups Foundation) and Ivan Kulis (ECDPM) were delighted to give a presentation on global trends and challenges for Communities of …
Presentation Dgroups Partners Meeting 2016
Representatives of Dgroups member organizations and Board members met on 14th September 2016 for the Dgroups Partners Meeting. The meeting was hosted by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). The meeting report will be available for Dgroups members’ in the coming days. In the meantime, you can view the presentation below, which illustrates objectives and progresses for the …
Welcome to Adrian Bannister, new Dgroups Board member
The Dgroups Board is delighted to welcome Adrian Bannister as a new member of the Board. Adrian is the Web Innovations Convenor at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. We look forward to working with Adrian and IDS to further strengthen Dgroups in the coming months and years. Click here …
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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 …
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Dgroups Activities Report 2015 and Plan 2016
With two new partners joining during the year, at the end of 2105 the Dgroups Partnership counts 24 member organizations and it is stronger at the end of 2015 than at the beginning of the year. The recently published Activities Report 2015 and Plan 2016 highlights the work areas around which the Dgroups Board focused its …