2023 Dgroups partners-meeting

Online collaboration use cases in-depth – a talk show

As part of a recent virtual discussion around online collaboration use cases, Saskia Harmsen hosted a talk show in which five Dgroups Foundation partners introduced their groups as examples of different collaboration use cases encountered online. IFAD Innovation Network Gladys Morales presented the IFAD innovation network as an example of using online groups to discuss an issue in …

2023 Dgroups partners-meeting

A use case for online support and interaction around events

As part of a virtual discussion around online collaboration use cases, the Dgroups Foundation recently organized a ‘peer assist’ session to explore ways to maximize the use of online group features to support face-to-face and other events. Jessica Ball brought the questions. She works as part of the KM Team in the UN-REDD programme. Last …

2023 Dgroups partners-meeting

Exploring use cases for online communities and groups

While development and humanitarian organizations tend to use similar online tools and platforms to collaborate, we tend to use them in different ways and for different purposes.  Exploring and sharing tips from these different uses was the focus of a recent Dgroups Foundation online partner experience exchange. The experience-sharing session on 24 February 2023 drew …

Menti results - Positive experiences - Youth in dialogues online event August 2022

Online dialogue with and for the next generation – ten suggestions for more effective engagement

by Jessica Ball and Pier Andrea Pirani Development and humanitarian organisations increasingly want to include and act upon young people’s voices, opinions, and insights. The past five years have seen a blossoming of youth activist movements across the globe, leading to the amplification of youth voices working across the intersections of climate, environment, and social …

D4Ag Dialogue Shaping Digital Agricultural Capacities

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 …

Dgroups Partners Dialogue October 2021 - Collaboration trends

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 …

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 …

In conversation with Nancy White – 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. In this conversation with Nancy White, we looked to the future and discussed the notion of critical uncertainties – and how to navigate them for better collaboration and more effective international development. See the …

Nancy White's sketch opening chat show Dgroups Dialogue

Opening chat show – 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. In the opening chat show moderated by Peter Ballantyne, we heard from Louise Clarke, Steve Agbenyo, Ivan Kulis, and Nawsheen Hosenally, presenting their stories on how they got started with …