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Tony Roberts

10:18

I can hear you well

Sonia Sinanan

10:19

I'm Sonia and I work at web gathering

Marc Lepage

10:19

hi all - Marc here. Knowledge Management team leader for UNDP in West Africa, based in Dakar. I initiated the KM4Dev Dakar chapter

Meti

10:20

Here from Addis Meti, Elias, Ewen, Seble, Miki, Hermela, Gashaw

Tony Roberts

10:20

My name is Tony Roberts and I am part of the Web Gathering team. I am in Lusaka at http://www.bongohive.com/

Meti

10:20

and chris

Davide

10:20

Davide Piga from Italy, now living in Nairobi, work in UNEP as a KM specialist, I also admin the KM4Dev wiki.

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Ewen Le Borgne

10:21

Ewen Le Borgne from ILRI in Ethiopia, knowledge sharing and communication specialist and facilitator of this meeting

Gwen

10:21

- Hi all, I'm Gwen from South Africa. I am a km and development consultant. Previously I have worked for USAID and local and international orgs as a km practitioner. I have a keen interest in making km more practical and implementable in the field.

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Sonia Sinanan

10:25

ok - Ewen is using Meti's mike

pleasure

10:25

very clear

10:27

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Gwen

10:28

Hi Ewen and others - you are very clear, thanks

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Sonia Sinanan

10:29

that's great - maybe you can also introduce yourselves in the chat box when you at the machine

Tony Roberts

10:30

yes

Sonia Sinanan

10:30

yes very clear

Tony Roberts

10:31

Are we using #km4dev as the hashtag for this event?

Davide

10:32

clear?

Sonia Sinanan

10:32

Hi Gwen

very clear Davide

10:32

Ewen Le Borgne

10:33

To Tony: #KM4DevACW perhaps

vic klabbers

10:34

no, the button is gone

Sonia Sinanan

10:34

no problem Vic - please introduce yourself in the chat box

vic klabbers

10:35

I am working with km and e-learning for 15 years but not affiliated to any UN body

Sonia Sinanan

10:35

welcome Vic

Tony Roberts

10:35

Welcome Vic

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Sonia Sinanan

10:39

Don't forget to post your questions for the presenters in the chat box

Ewen Le Borgne

10:39

The question was: any reaction on this testimony?

Meti

10:40

We're just asking people if they have any additional comments on what Seble talked about

Davide

10:40

not questions for now, curious to hear how you addressed these issues

Sonia Sinanan

10:40

I wonder if other's have had similar experiences?

Meti

10:40

Questions, input, comments are welcome

Marc Lepage

10:40

is there a KM4Dev Uganda community?

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Seyoum Mengist

10:41

helo all i am seyoum mengist

RD and Innovation expert from addis abab univeristy

10:41

Sonia Sinanan

10:41

Hi Seyoum - thank you for persevering with the platform

Seyoum Mengist

10:42

km4dev addis ababa member

Sonia Sinanan

10:42

Welcome Seyoum

Meti

10:42

Seble said her buddy from Uganda informed her that the KM4Dev community there is not active

We hope Marc's question is answered

10:42

Sonia Sinanan

10:43

I think that would be great

Ewen Le Borgne

10:43

We are introducing Gashaw's input now

Gwen

10:45

Hi Gashaw - can you please speak up a little. Thanks!

Marc Lepage

10:46

tks Gashaw! this shows that we can't only rely on technology..

vic klabbers

10:46

agree, finding it a bit hard to keep focused as I really have to listen well

Sonia Sinanan

10:47

that is much better

thanks Gashaw

10:47

Tony Roberts

10:47

very clear audio now

Gwen

10:47

much better thanks

Ewen Le Borgne

10:48

Gashaw's inputs are summarized on: http://meetingwords.com/n7ppbGqf3u

It's much easier to read everything on that panel

10:48

Sonia Sinanan

10:48

thanks Gashaw for repeating your talk

Don't forget to tell us who is talking in the chat box

10:50

Davide

10:50

Hermella

Meti

10:50

Hermella was speaking

Sonia Sinanan

10:50

that's great - thanks

Gwen

10:51

Hi buddy

Sonia Sinanan

10:51

Elias is speaking now

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Sonia Sinanan

10:55

Welcome Mikhael

please introduce yourself in the chat box

10:55

Meti

10:56

This is Elia speaking

what can you say on this gwen

10:56

Mikhael

10:57

Mikhael Tekalign, ICT and MIS Manager for LMD-AGP USAID's Ethiopia ICT

Davide

10:57

Mikhael a good summary for catching up on what has been said so far is here: http://meetingwords.com/n7ppbGqf3u

(and welcome!)

10:57

Mikhael

10:57

Thanks a lot

Davide

10:58

thanks

I don't see the switch

10:58

ok thanks

10:59

Marc Lepage

10:59

sure, go ahead

Ewen Le Borgne

11:00

https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2009077&password=M.10B548F6C4A57B3BCB3A1B0723F3BD

Oops sorry - wrong chat window to share this link

11:01

Sonia Sinanan

11:01

you did confuse me a bit !!

vic klabbers

11:04

i needed to install java and eluminate

with a bad connection that would have been an issue

11:04

Ewen Le Borgne

11:05

Vic, Mikhael, Seyoum - has any of you also engaged in buddying up?

vic klabbers

11:05

so I dont agree that this is a low bandwidth,server side application

Mikhael

11:07

I tried to pair up with Felicite Hatungimana for buddying up, but there is no reply from the other side...

Ewen Le Borgne

11:07

Ha... Felicite is trying to join us btw - she's on http://meetingwords.com/n7ppbGqf3u

Davide: can you please speak up?

11:07

Sonia Sinanan

11:08

Vic - we have found that it can be more complicated to set up elluminate but ultimately it is a better experience during the meeting

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Ewen Le Borgne

11:08

Felicite just joined us! And Bruce! Welcome

Sonia Sinanan

11:08

Hi Felicite

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Sonia Sinanan

11:08

Hi Bruce

Meti

11:09

could you please speak louder davide

Felicite Hatungimana

11:09

Hi Every body

Sonia Sinanan

11:09

You can raise your volume on your computer too to make the presenter louder

Ewen Le Borgne

11:09

We can't - we're at max volume already...

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Sonia Sinanan

11:09

ok - that's better

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Tony Roberts

11:10

yes

vic klabbers

11:10

dont understand your point? My comment was towards Davide stating that it was a lowbandwith server side application which it is not (in my opinion)

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vic klabbers

11:10

I used in the past and people really had problems using it

Sonia Sinanan

11:11

Don't foget to post your questions in the chatbox

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Sonia Sinanan

11:11

or raise your hands and we can use the microphones

Davide

11:15

yes!

Ewen Le Borgne

11:19

Go ahead Vic!

Sonia Sinanan

11:19

Meti would you like to start this conversation?

Meti can you get a bit nearer to your mic - you are not very clear

11:19

that's better

11:21

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Davide

11:22

yes but low

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Tony Roberts

11:25

yes

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Sonia Sinanan

11:27

thank you

Felicite Hatungimana

11:29

I have pbm with microphone

Ewen Le Borgne

11:30

http://meetingwords.com/n7ppbGqf3u

Hermella

11:31

I vote yes

Davide

11:31

(just for fun)

Hermella

11:32

Sorry Davide

vic klabbers

11:32

no

exactly

11:32

well, I will be back in 15 minutes and join the discussion

11:35

Davide

11:38

Main issues identified so far (by Gwen, thanks!) - Technology is an issue on the ground. Overcome technological challenges. - Make km4dev more practical and less theoretical ...Oral tradition?

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Sonia Sinanan

11:51

any volunteers?

Is every one finding this clear?

11:54

Marc Lepage

11:54

clear!

Gwen

11:54

its clear

Sonia Sinanan

11:59

thanks gwen

Marc Lepage

12:01

you got it all, thanks Gwen!

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Tony Roberts

12:03

There is an ICT4D face-to-face conference happening in CapeTown in December. That might be an opportunity to piggy-back a KM4Dev face-to-face?

http://ictdconference.org/

12:03

Marc Lepage

12:04

I guess we'd start with ONE issue.. already that's a lot of work...

it took months to produce the single French issue (so far)..

12:04

Hermella

12:05

Good idea Marc

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Marc Lepage

12:07

I would suggest we start with things that don't require a lot (any?) $$..

our KM4Dev Dakar has no budget whatsoever

12:07

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Davide

12:08

Online edition for now?

Marc Lepage

12:08

whoever hosts pays for drinks!

@davide we can check with Ewen but I think there's still some $$ for KM4Dev journal - so Africa would be one issue under the larger KM4dev journal africa

12:08

Hermella

12:08

To me, the online gathering is more practical at this point

vic klabbers

12:10

in a few minutes

Marc Lepage

12:10

yes, we could all be online once a month, for 90 minutes

the various KM4dev chapters could report/share what's happening/ what was discussed in their respective meetings

12:10

Ewen Le Borgne

12:10

Happy to help with helping whoever wants to work on the KM4Dev Africa journal (to get it set up) but I can't work on an entire journal

I'm also happy to explore ways to bring in members from other KM4Dev Ethiopia meetings in our meeting (after the next one which is next week)

12:11

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Ewen Le Borgne

12:11

Finally I'm happy to help a small group explore options to have more virtual meetings like this one - but once a month is too much for me

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Davide

12:12

noooo once a month is a lot!

Hermella

12:12

Supporting Marc's idea but the issue is how to get funding to do this once a month. We can consider a more economical method of talking online, such as free collaboration web services

Ewen Le Borgne

12:12

To Marc: We are regularly posting updates from our quarterly gatherings on the KM4Dev Ning

Gwen

12:12

I am also happy to work on the journal - I would also like to suggest that instead of thinking of it as a journal, that we think of soemthing smaller / shorter that acheives the same purpose.

Ewen Le Borgne

12:12

+1 to Gwen's idea

The journal is a lot of work

12:12

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Ewen Le Borgne

12:12

To Marc: find those summaries on: http://www.km4dev.org/group/km4dev-addis-ababa-ethiopia

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Marc Lepage

12:14

@hermella: we could do skype or Google hangout

Davide

12:14

+1 virtual meetings

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Hermella

12:15

@marc, i agree

KM4Dev Addis members are also saying that's a good option

12:15

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Marc Lepage

12:16

agree!

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Gwen

12:17

ok

vic klabbers

12:17

i think starting a yournal might be a bit over ambitious

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Gwen

12:18

any thoughts on the process? I thought the buddying was a good idea.

Sonia Sinanan

12:19

you can post you thoughts in the chat box or take the mic if you would like to speak

Marc Lepage

12:19

@vic: i'm suggesting a single issue of the KM4Dev journal http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/19474199.asp - an issue focusing on Africa

Gwen

12:21

@marc and vic - also the suggestion to do something similar to a journal, but not as intense, but serves the same purpose.

vic klabbers

12:21

that woulbe a good idea, I would not mind beig part of that

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Sonia Sinanan

12:21

have you considered an online resource - even a blog site

?

12:21

vic klabbers

12:22

not as an author as I think such a publication should not be filled with western/UN people only

Davide

12:22

+1 km4dev africa journal, but more as a living compilation of peer-reviewed case studies and lessons learnt from concrete development projects related to km. stored and categorized on the wiki.

Gwen

12:22

hi sonia - that is something that i have been considering, but need to ensure we do not duplicate what is already being done by km4dev.

Sonia Sinanan

12:23

ok - it makes sense not to duplicate

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Gwen

12:24

@davide +1 I think this would be a great idea. Also make sure to send out short email summaries on these developed to ensure whole community is aware of them.

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Davide

12:25

hi sorry, bad connection + battery down

Sonia Sinanan

12:25

no problem Davide

Davide

12:26

the whole chat history is gone did I miss anything?

Gwen

12:28

hi Davide - I still see it, perhaps something on your side. I think sonia may know as the technical person.

Sonia Sinanan

12:28

maybe some comments - don't worry as it will be vailable in the recording if you want to go back and look

the chat is still here but Davide has lost it as he left the meeting and came back in

12:29

vic klabbers

12:30

i see it as well, so def on your side

Sonia Sinanan

12:31

for sure

Marc Lepage

12:32

no comment here except for a big thank you to Ewen and colleagues!

it's difficult to start these things, but once you've started... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA8z7f7a2Pk

12:33

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Tony Roberts

12:34

Welcome Ian

Davide

12:35

Hi Ian!

Ian Thorpe

12:35

thanks. just listening in.

Hermella

12:38

Welcome Ian, you came at the end

Sonia Sinanan

12:38

It has been a pleasure

to meet you all and hear about KM4Dev

12:39

Davide

12:39

Idea: once we have the summary of this session, including a list of options of initiatives that have been proposed, then rather than continuing with the buddying process we might volunteer for working on the initiatives that we like and continue working on them in groups

Ewen Le Borgne

12:40

@Davide yes, that would be great!

Hermella

12:40

Thank you everyone

Gwen

12:40

+1 I agree. It would be good to have smaller groups to move forward with these ideas.

Hermella

12:41

Big thanks to Ewen, Elias and Meti

you guys rock!

12:41

Sonia Sinanan

12:42

Thanks Elias