CoPs – Dgroups Foundation https://dgroups.info Development through dialogue Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:01:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://dgroups.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-DgroupsFavicon-32x32.png CoPs – Dgroups Foundation https://dgroups.info 32 32 75340987 Dgroups at the Knowledge for Development (K4D) Conference https://dgroups.info/2017/04/1457/ Mon, 10 Apr 2017 06:41:36 +0000 https://www.dgroups.info/?p=1457 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 professionals (many of whom already use Dgroups). He underlined the vital importance of Dgroups and communities of practice to help achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals.

Neil Pakenham-Walsh at K4D Conference, Geneva, April 2017
Neil Pakenham-Walsh (HIFA – Dgroups Chair) speaking at K4D Conference – Geneva, April 2017

He called for CoPs to be specifically included in the Agenda Knowledge for Development, and for all stakeholders to support the key recommendation made in the new publication Knowledge Management in the UN System: namely that UN agencies and others should embrace CoPs and realise their full potential.

Neil pointed out that CoPs are more environmentally sustainable, more inclusive, more transparent, and much less expensive than international F2F conferences. While the latter are still needed, there is a case for a smarter approach with fewer F2F conferences linked by continuous 24/7 CoPs.

View Neil’s presentation here:

https://www.slideshare.net/dgroups/dgroups-communities-of-practice-for-development-74789229

About K4D Conference

The Global Knowledge for Development [K4D] Conference aimed to review and advance knowledge management practices in the field of sustainable development, and to present a new agenda to strengthen knowledge societies and economies for development. The Conference provided insights in current practices and explore future developments in the use of knowledge management in the area of development. Knowledge is at the heart of global development. (Source: Conference Agenda)

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]]> 1457 Communities of Practice – Increasing inclusiveness, value and collaboration. Real trends or wishful thinking? https://dgroups.info/2016/09/communities-of-practice-increasing-inclusiveness-value-and-collaboration-real-trends-or-wishful-thinking/ Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:43:46 +0000 http://www.dgroups.info/?p=1389 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 Practice in International Development.

The presentation emphasised the central and growing importance of CoPS in promoting inclusiveness, value and collaboration among all stakeholders.

Neil and Ivan highlighted the role of CoPs in progressively realising the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda, which requires “all countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership”.

http://www.slideshare.net/dgroups/communities-of-practice-increasing-inclusiveness-value-and-collaboration-real-trends-or-wishful-thinking

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