Icebreaker - Dgroups session at KM4Dev20Years event

Critical factors for more effective online collaboration, dialogue and interaction in development

Last Friday, 70+ people joined a virtual workshop to share insights and experiences with online collaboration, dialogue and interaction in development. Part of the KM4Dev 20 years event on 2 and 3 July, the session applied an experience capitalization approach to identify ‘actionable knowledge’ that improves our practices in this area. Starting points … We …

KM4Dev 20 Anniversary Banner

Online collaboration, dialogue and interaction – Dgroups Foundation convenes exchange at the KM4Dev July 2020 event

This year, the KM4Dev community of practice marks 20 years of active engagement, sharing, and learning.  The process kicks off with a 10-session virtual extravaganza on 2 and 3 July, 2020.  It is an exciting, diverse program put together by groups of enthusiastic volunteers. Kudos to them all! On 3 July (1300-1430 CEST), the Dgroups Foundation is …

KM4Dev Knowledge Cafe 21 May 2020 Dgroups Online Collaboration

Online collaboration: Looking back to see into the future

Yesterday, Peter Ballantyne led a KM4Dev knowledge café about online collaboration. He shared some personal reflections and slides from the origin of Dgroups, showing how ideas and practice evolved, and he provided updates on the current plans of the Foundation and partnership today. He ended by posing some questions for participants to help identify the …

Testimonials: What would have happened without Dgroups?

Dgroups is home of many groups and communities and several development practitioners have successfully used the Dgroups platform to support and enable their work. With this blog – a re-post from Sarah Cummings’ original piece – we are starting to collect testimonials of how Dgroups has helped users in their work. At the moment, there …