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Translated from the posting in italian by Paolo Ferrara, TDH ItalyLast week, I had the great opportunity to participate in a Web 2.0 seminar organised in Brussels by Concord and Euforic, two of the major NGO networks in Europe.These were two magnificent days, both from a human as well as from a profesional perspective. They allowed me to pick up certain issues that we also try to promote here in

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Traduction de l'article en italien par Paolo Ferrara, TDH ItalieJ'ai eu la semaine passée la grande opportunité de participer à un séminaire sur web 2.0 organisé à Bruxelles par Concord et par Euforic, deux des plus importants réseaux d'ONG en Europe.Deux journées fantastiques, très belles tant d'un point de vue humain que professionnel, qui ont permis de reprendre certains thèmes que nous nous

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Click to Play In this interview in Italian, Paolo Ferrara (Terre des Hommes Italy) explains the main lessons he brings back home from the Euforic/Concord meeting.In particular, Paolo took part in the sessions on fundraising, campaigning and advocacy. From the presentations, the group discussions, and different talks during the coffee-breaks, he identifies four main lessons he learned

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Brussels, 6 June. During the open space session, Mike Powell explained the new IKM (Information Knowledge Management) Emergent Issues programme:Click To PlayThe programme has been developed over the past years by Mike and colleagues from the EADI information management working group. It recently received funding from the Dutch Development Ministry.The programme has its root in a critical view on

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Click to Play In questa intervista, Paolo Ferrara (Terre des Hommes Italia) spiega quali sono i principali insegnamenti che si porta a casa dal meeting organizzato da Euforic e Concord.In particolare, Paolo ha partecipato alle sessioni su 'fundraising', 'campaigning' ed 'advocacy'. Dalle presentazioni, dalle discussioni in gruppo e da conversazioni informali durante i diversi coffe-break

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Click to Play Talking about African knowledge consumers, François Stepman (FOMETRO) talks about the bias towards content produced in the north and argues that the Africans need to be much more self-confident about their products.During the Africa-Europe knowledge exchange roundtable, he suggests that Africans are not consuming the information and knowledge produced on the continent for a

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Brussels, 6 June. During the open space, Richard Lalleman and Michel Wesseling presented their ongoing work to build a customised search engine for development information FOCUSS.With the release of FOCUSS, a unique cooperative initiative has been established between 23 organisations in the development arena. Partners include: AllianceSud, ATOL, Bernard van Leer Foundation, Chr. Michelsen

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Brussels, 6 June. During the peer to peer session on communication strategies and tools, three speakers shared their experiences: Anna from Kehys, Elisa from the ACP local government platform, and David from Sangonet. After the presentations, participants rotated in a world cafe setting to discuss issues more in depth.We asked two participants to share what they took away from the session:In the

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Brussels, 6 June. During the Peer to Peer exchange session on advocacy, Christine Coudour, from European Voice gave an interesting presentation on the paper's cooperation with NGOs.She argued that NGOs are still quite sceptical when it comes to contacts with the press. She described how civil society organisations can raise awareness among European policy makers by using a newspaper for

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Brussels, 6 June: This peer to peer session brought together a rich mix of ideas and approaches to research communication. The Southern Africa Research and Documentation Centre in Zimbabwe presented its virtual library, publishing, and expert databases; the European Commission presented plans for a European Development Report to communicate research; and the Institute of Development Studies

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Brussels, 6 June. The first peer-2-peer exchange session focused on different ways in which organisations are moving beyond information dissemination and exchange to build spaces for change. Speakers included Wilma Roem (ILEIA), Danny Aerts (ATOL) and Niels Keijzer (ECDPM). Read the articles...

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In the second peer-2-peer session on June 6th, Philip Rohrer (CIDSE) and Andreas Vogt (CONCORD/GCAP) shared their perspectives on ways that the Internet and other tools are being used to campaign and mobilize people on development issues. Read the stories ...

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The 4th peer-2-peer session on 6 June looked different strategies, approaches and tools by which development results and activities are communicated. Speakers includes Anna Pollari (KEHYS), David Barnard (SangoNet), and Elisa Rafamatanantsoa (ACP Local Government Forum). Read all the stories ...

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On 6 June, participants explored how the Internet and other tools are being used to advocate changes in development policies and practices? Presenters included Florent Sebban (Eurostep), Agnès Philippart (Concord) and Christine Coudour of European Voice, and Cécile Crosset (Plan Belgique). Read all the stories ...

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Brussels, 6 June. Led and facilitated by Can Akdeniz (EADI), this peer-2-peer session session included presentations by Françoise Moreau (DG Development), Catherine Fisher (IDS), and Joseph Ngwawi (SARDC). They explored approaches and tools by which the outputs of policy and research organizations are documented, accessed, and communicated. Read the stories ...

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Brussels, 6 June. In the open space on the afternoon, we identified six issues and projects to further discuss and plan in smaller groups. Read the articles ...

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Brussels, 6 June. In the peer to peer session on learning networks, Niels from ECDPM presented his experiences facilitating an e-mail discussion group (using Dgroups). Wilma Roem shared ILEIA's experiences as a learning network, and Danny Aerts from ATOL explained its shift in focus from appropriate technology to supporting organisational learning processes.We asked four participants: What was

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Brussels, 6 June. Following the challenging development commitments in 2005, several Member States and the European Commission are putting their efforts together to launch an annual of ambitious development reports, to strengthen the linkages of the development research with policymaking. During the R4D session facilitated by EADI, Françoise Moreau, DG Development, presented the European

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Brussels, 6 June. We started the secoind day with two campaigning presentations on: “G8: Make Aid Work” coordinated by CIDSE and the Global Campaign Against Poverty (GCAP).Participants heard of the scope and the tools used in the campaigns. The two presenters provided the audience with information about the target groups, the methods used, successes and problems occuring. Small group discussions

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Brussels, 6 June. In the peer to peer session on learning networks, Wilma Roem showed how ILEIA has developed the worldwide LEISA (Low external input Sustainable Agriculture) Network.She explained the process of collecting and validating knowledge that is taking place during the production of the LEISA Magazines. The editing of the material that ILEIA receives from the field based authors of the

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Brussels, 6 June. Reporting from the peer to peer session on campaigning, IICD's Hilde Eugelink writes that not every NGO is an effective campaigner. Participants identified some specific challenges as:It is hard to involve the media and keep them interested in the issue. Often, there is no follow-up of the initiation of the campaign.As usual, funding is a big barrier for many organisations to

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Brussels, 6 June. During the peer to peer workshop on 'information, knowledge sharing and communication for more effective advocacy', we gained insights into new tools of lobbying and campaigning.Christine Coudour from the European Voice shed light on how development NGOs could use advertisement in the newspaper to lobby for their purpose: "Advocacy advertising is another campaigning tool to be

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Brussels, 6 June. In the dynamic table discussions of the workshop on effective campaigning, the discussion on the meaning of "campaigning" arose. According to Michel Wesseling from the ISS, campaigning is to "make politicians take different decisions". Although campaigning is not only about media, it is an important tool to mobilize people and increase the pressure on decision-makers.Flowing

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Brussels, 6 June. Sangonet is a South African NGO, established in 1987, which evolved into an Internet Service Provider in 1990s with the aim of assisting NGOs with their ICT and information needs.It made a strategic decision in 2001 to move out of ICT services role into ICT facilitation role, focussing on 3 main programme areas:Providing information to civil society in South AfricaBrokering ICT

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Brussels, 6 June. The platform is an umbrella of mayors and representatives of local government across ACP countries. Its mission is to strengthen the role of local government in ACP-EU cooperation processes. It has three main roles:Representation, advocacyInformation and networking Technical support: helpdeskInformation activities range from quarterly newsletter, via emails and website, to

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To generate media interest about a development issue, it is essential to link up with "friendly" journalists, who will most likely write when you have something going on.In Finland there is a special mailing list and a web page for journalists who are interested in development issues. It was set up by development people and journalists together. The list distributes articles and events for the

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Brussels, 6 June. As part of the peer to peer session on learning networks, Niels Keijzer explained the Pelican Initiative. In 2002, several organisations took the initiative to stimulate evidence based learning for development and multistakeholder interaction. We decided to use Dgroups as the basic instrument to facilitate these exchanges.The idea was that you get better learning when you leave

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Brussels, 6 June. 15 minutes to explain ATOL's experience with learning networks? No problem! ... Boy, was I proven wrong ;-)A small summary (in five words, Peter, give or take a few): ATOL does two different things with networks in Africa:1) it works with groups of organisations around organisational learning2) it accompanies libraries and documentation centresWhile the activities in the field

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In this ‘web2share’ awareness/training session on 5th June, Chris Addison showed how user-generated content and participatory web tools can transform the way development content is shared. Includes hand-on with some basic applications.The objective of the Web2Share workshop was to introduce, with illustrations and demonstrations, some popular 'new web' applications; participants also had the

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Brussels, 5 June. The second day of the Euforic/CONCORD event ended with the opening of the photo exhibit by the German photographer Uwe Ommer, showing families from all over the world.It took four years and millions of miles to the artist who, in the end of the 90s of the previous century has crossed the 5 continents in order to show that in fact the differences probably more than the

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Brussels, 5 June. The session on 'new' web tools by Chris Addison attracted twelve people from different types of organisations.The starting discussion revealed that participants had various levels of understanding, knowledge and familiarity with tools such as RSS, blogs and wikis. In this sense, working in pairs and leveraging peer-to-peer assistance proved to be an effective way for all the

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Click To Play Claudia Iatan explains what she learned in the session on the 'new' web and how they could help her work as coordinator of FOND.

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Catherine Fisher from IDS explains how a strategic planning process of about 9 months, helps to get people from different teams talking and exchanging knowledge. It is hoped that this is a knowledge strategy that will have an influence on the culture in the organisation beyond this process. Watch the 8-minutes video to hear her explain it in her own words.. Click To Play

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Brussels, 5 June. During his workshop on internet fundraising, Steve Bridger observed that people begin to expect more from charitiy organization than just being asked for donations. The future donor might just ignore the NGOs and will directly look for projects to contribute to. Examples of such projects are: Kiva, ChipIn, Change.org or justgiving. These features can of course also be used by

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Brussels, 5 June. The participants of the internet fundraising workshop by Steve Bridger saw, despite its advantages, certain barriers to the use of the Internet for effective fundraising:National culturesSkepticism: Do social network tools increase competition and take away jobs from existing development organizations? Lack of knowledge and skills Distrust in the tools themselves: Does it not

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Brussels, 5 June. What does a future donor look like? This question was answered by Steve Bridger, who outlined the current trends in a first part of his workshop:"The general public learnt to ask tricky questions that are hard to answer". Parallel to the development of the new social internet tools, the new donors are demanding more accountability and want to trace back how their money has been

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Click to Play Vathakou Eugenia from European Perspective, a Greek NGO, explains the success of their intranet in enhancing and supporting people's work in her organization. Part of the success is explained by the fact the management enthusiastically support the process, and that there's a lot to gain for the staff - they can use the intranet to document their communication

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Euforic/Concord meeting: Opening session - 5 June 2006Originally uploaded by euforic Brussels, 5 June. I am very pleased to welcome you at this first communication network meeting meeting on behalf of Concord, Euforic and ICCO.Speaking these words of welcome as board member of the both CONCOIRD and Euforic, one cooperative and one confederation, and as staff member of ICCO I am saving you also

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Brussels, 4 June. The plenary session of the Roundtable 'Towards more effective Africa-Europe information exchange, communication, and knowledge collaboration' kicked off with contributions from three people working with African information and media.Joseph Ngawi of the Southern Africa Research Documentation Centre (SARDC) presented its Virtual Library catalogue of publications on Southern Africa

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Nancy White's session about knowledge stategies to achieve our missions started with Nancy telling a story and inviting others to share stories about knowledge strategies in their organisation. This post will share the story and a framework for looking at strategies to enhance knowledge management in organisations.Nancy's story: I was talking on skype with Shawn from Anecdote from Australia,

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Brussels, 4 June. Some people got their first taste of being in a chat show towards the end of the Monday afternoon roundtable on improving information links between Africa and Europe. Following presentations and small group discussions, Catherine Fisher from IDS played host quizzing three brave participants on their perspectives. The 'audience' got into the spirit of things with plenty of

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Brussels, 4 June. The following 10 lessons were drawn from a series of presentations, a world cafe session and a final chatshow forming the Africa-Europe Roundtable: Towards more effective Africa-Europe information exchange, communication, and knowledge collaboration.Trust - There was some discussion on the need for trust in collaboration. There is sometimes a mistrust of actors from the North

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Brussels, 4 June. During a dinner in a nice Italian restaurant, conference participants started a discussion about the current "hype" on web 2.0 for development. The question was raised whether using web2.0 is just a present fashion which will soon be replaced by a new version of communication technolgy.While there is the notion of sharing and interactive internet technology which can make

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Brussels, 4 June. After the presentations, participants in the Africa-Europe Roundtable formed small groups to exchange and examine issues arising from the presentations. The starting points were that: communication and information exchange is key for better development; that there is an unequal distribution of access to information, particularly linked to poor ICT access in Africa. One table

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From June 4th to 6th 2007, Euforic joined forces with CONCORD to exchange experiences 'Communicating and Connecting Europe's Development Efforts.' Alongside the Euforic AGM, CONCORD organized the first meeting of its 'Communication Network.' Euforic and CONCORD members participated in various workshops and training/awareness sessions on issues and topics related to information, knowledge and

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Du 4 au 6 juin 2007, Euforic et CONCORD uniront leurs forces pour partager des expériences concernant la « Diffusion et mise en réseau de l’action européenne dans le domaine du développement ». Dans le cadre de l'assemblée générale d'Euforic, CONCORD tiendra la première réunion de son réseau « Communication ». Les membres d'Euforic et de CONCORD participeront ensemble à divers ateliers ainsi que

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