Dear all, please see below and attached a call for papers for an e-journal on Approaches to Promote Knowledge Sharing in Development Organizations.
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />Simone Staiger-Rivas Communications Unit Webpublishing Knowledge Sharing - InforCom Project (Information and Communications for Rural Communities ) CIAT (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical) E-mail: [email protected] CIAT Web site: www.ciat.cgiar.org <http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/> InforCom Web site: www.ciat.cgiar.org/inforcom Knowledge Sharing Web site: http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/cgiar/knowledge_sharing/home.htm KM4Dev has recently launched a peer-reviewed e-journal in the field of knowledge sharing for development. The second issue will deal with "Approaches to Promote Knowledge Sharing in International Development Organizations" and will be co-edited by Nathan Russell, Simone Staiger-Rivas, Doug Horton, Lucie Lamoureux, and Allison Hewlitt. <outbind://48/#_ftn1> * The purpose of this issue is to present some recent experiences with KS and lessons learned by KS practitioners who have been involved in planning, introducing, and mainstreaming KS approaches and processes in development organizations. Papers will outline the organizational settings in which they introduced or developed KS approaches and the relationships between internal and external knowledge sharing in these settings. The use of KS tools and their benefits for these organizations will be analyzed. We invite KS practitioners and champions in research institutes, think tanks, donor agencies, NGOs, and other development organizations to propose papers on the following general theme: ü Approaches to Promote Knowledge Sharing in Development Organizations Within this broad theme, papers should address the following, or related, topics: ü What are some entry points and strategies for introducing KS? ü What specific approaches or tools have (or haven't) worked, and what are the implications for future efforts to introduce and mainstream KS? ü How has KS related to organizational learning and organizational change efforts? ü What has been the link between internal and external KS? ü How to promote KS and collaboration in a competitive environment? Please find attached the call for papers. Submission deadline for the title and abstract is the 20 April 2005. If you would like to be actively involved in this initiative, or have ideas or questions, please contact Nathan Russell at <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] _____ <outbind://48/#_ftnref1> * Nathan Russell, Simone Staiger, and Doug Horton are with the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT); Lucie Lamoureux works both for the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) in The Netherlands and Canada's Bellanet International Secretariat; and Allison Hewlitt works for Bellanet. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
