Links
Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev)
KM4Dev is an international network of KM coordinators and practitioners working both, for donor agencies and private organisations. A six member core group maintains the platform for the discussion of about 600 members (not all of them active) on KM issues. In a yearly KM4Dev meeting around 40 KM practitioners meet for three days. SDC is co-financing this network.
Contact person in SDC: Manuel Flury
CPsquare
CPsquare is a community of practice that studies communities of practice. CPsquare is an open organization that includes people from both public and private sectors who are gathering, sharing and learning together.
Palette project
The Palette Project aims at developing internet oriented technological and pedagogical learning supports to make sharing and reflecting about experience easier and more attractive, and to make debating about controversial issues more passionate and transparent. Communities of Practice may benefit from this project. Concrete results are expected by end of 2008.
Contact person: Manfred Künzel , Professor for Didactics http://palette.ercim.org/
Website Etienne Wenger
Etienne Wenger is one of the CoP conceptualists. He starts its website on Communities of Practice with the following paragraph: The term "community of practice" is of relatively recent coinage, even though the phenomenon it refers to is age-old. The concept has turned out to provide a useful perspective on knowing and learning. A growing number of people and organizations in various sectors are now focusing on communities of practice as a key to improving their performance.
Contact: Etienne Wenger
How to build, nurture and facilitate online networks
A wiki produced by the participants of the last e-moderation training course by Agridea with participants from diverse places around the world.
Online forum on Communities of Practice
A yahoo group for practitioners where working papers, links, a contacts directory and other goodies are shared.
Blog "Communities of Practice for development"
A blog by Joitske Hulsebosch who is a member of KM4D to "track materials and reflections on the topic".
