Recent Events
Managing Knowledge to Build Trust in Government - From June 26-29, 2007 in Vienna, Austria, WBI partnered with the UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs (UNDESA) to deliver a workshop on the ways in which knowledge management can help to build public trust in government. This 4 day workshop was part of the 7th Global Forum on Reinventing Government. For more information, see the event web page.
Conference on Knowledge Management as an Enabler of Change and Innovation in Africa - June 11-13, 2007 in Cairo, Egypt. This regional event, sponsored by the Global Development Network (GDN), African Capacity Building Foundation, and WBI, brought together 125 policymakers and practitioners representing 30 African countries, research institutes and universities, the private sector, and development organizations such as UNDP, FAO, CGIAR, WHO, Ashoka Foundation, and the Honeybee Network. The conference focused on how research is shared and applied to development practice generally and within specific sectors. It served as the culmination of the collaboration between GDN and WBI in developing the knowledge management capacity of a number of African organizations (involving four previous sub-regional workshops), and as the formal launch of new regional programs in Latin America and South Asia. For more information, see the event web page.
Knowledge Management Capacity for African Research Institutes and Networks: Western Africa Workshop - From April 11-13, 2007 the World Bank Institute in cooperation with the Global Development Network organized the 3rd in its series of sub-regional workshops across Sub-Saharan Africa in cooperation with the Institute of Economic and Social Policies/Centre d’analyse des Politiques Economiques et Sociales. For more information, visit the workshop web page.
Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) Forum 2007 - WBI assisted the Asia Development Bank in the delivery of the 2007 gathering of the KM4Dev community. This was the first meeting of KM4Dev in East Asia. For more information, go to the forum web page.
Knowledge Management in Thailand - On February 15, 2007, in Bangkok -Thailand, WBI delivered a one-day workshop on knowledge management in partnership with the Thailand Knowledge Management Institute. For more information, see the event web page.
More events>> Feature Resources Communities of Practice for Development in the Middle East and North Africa. Erik C. Johnson and Ramla Khalidi. KM4D Journal. (PDF, 109Kb)
Thematic Group Toolkit provides support for the creation and development of "communities of practice."
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