What's New
16 February 2007
UNDP at KM4Dev Conference
On 8-9 February 2007, at the Knowledge Management for Development Conference hosted this year by the Asian Development Bank at their headquarters in Manila, Philippines, knowledge management practitioners from around the globe and particularly Asia and the Pacfic, came together to to interact, network, learn, and share experiences and concerns on creating, disseminating, transferring, and managing knowledge and information. The Forum also aimed to benefit knowledge workers to learn, create, and embed development knowledge into business processes and in drafting and designing effective programs.
The participants included an internationally distributed UNDP team from UNDP's Regional Centres in Bangkok, Colombo, Bratislava and Pacific Centre, and also from UNDP HQ and the Solution Exchange initiative of the UN India Country Team.
One of the outputs included a poster which illustrates success stories regarding the creation of "Communities of Practice" around the world within the UN system and through partner organizations in developing countries.
The mural tells a story in a most innovative way of how UNDP has been able to leverage the powers of community building to internally strengthen the capacity of staff and externally provide clients at the global, regional and national levels with a broader menu of options and solutions to development challenges. It describes how this approach helps enhance development results. The mural articulates the basic mechanics of establishing a community of practice e.g. the why, the what, the who and the how and gives testimonials from community members. The mural highlights key drivers of the particular UNDP/UN community of practice approach and the challenges involved and the potential results from having global, regional and national-level communities of practice connected to each other. It describes the main services that such communities render to its members and clients, i.e. query-response, e-consultation, e-discussion and action groups. The mural demonstrates the value of using simple methods and low technology tools to establish communities of practice in order to connect practitioners globally to experiences and knowledge to facilitate the exchange of comparative and good practice.
 Ten foot by three foot mural concept by UNDP and Crowley & Co.Artwork by Deirdre Crowley.
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