Knowledge Fairs
See the page on | Knowledge Fairs on the KS Toolkit
Contents
What is a Knowledge Fair?
Introduction
A number of KM4Dev members have used Knowledge Fairs as a way to explicitly share knowledge within and across communities. This FAQ is to share methods for Knowledge Fairs, along with stories of use. Add your story!
Keywords
knowledge_sharing, method, knowledge_fair, activities
Detailed Description
[the meat of the topic – clearly, crisply communicated summary of the topic. Where relevant, a brief story – no more than 1-2 paragraphs - of how this topic has been turned into practice, ideally from the KM4Dev archives? If the example is long, separate into a separate subsection]
KM4Dev Discussions
[Summary of the discussions on the KM4Dev list which provided source material. People who contributed to the discussions are cited at the end of the section in italics: "The following members of the KM4Dev community contributed to the discussion thread on ...: XY (launched the discussion), ...]
Examples in Application
IWMI's Knowledge Fair [ http://www.ilo.org/public/english/knowledgefair/index.htm ILO Knowledge Fair]
Related FAQs
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Further Information
The KM4Dev Journal had an article on Knowledge Fairs The culture of a knowledge fair: lessons from an international organization, Barbara Collins, Rafael Diez de Medina and Anne Trebilcock
Steve Denning on Knowledge Fairs
Original Author and Subsequent Contributors of this FAQ
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Dates of First Creation and Further Revisions
FAQ KM4Dev Source Materials
From: Sebastiao Ferreira [1] Sent: Thu 6/23/2005 03:18 To: Knowledge Management for International Development Organisations Subject: [km4dev-l] RE: Knowledge Fair reporting
Sarah,
I organized a Knowledge Fair one year ago, for CARE USA, in Atlanta. But I did not developed a methodology for evaluating Knowledge Fairs. What I can share with you is my experience.
1. Before the Fair I defined the concept of the Fair and what I should understand as success and as failure of the Fair, as indicators of success. This Fair was very particular; it was oriented to knowledge projects (future knowledge generation and/or sharing), not to gather knowledge generated experiences from in the past. These indicators was:
1. The relevance (for development) of the ideas of the knowledge projects. 2. The level of interest in KM (at social and organizational level) generated by the Fair in expositors and visitors. 3. The amount of ideas and knowledge sharing among expositors and visitors.
2. To make my evaluation I prepared a questionnaire to expositors and an interview scheme for applying to some key visitors. 3. Before the Fair finished I applied the questionnaire to expositors. During the Fair and after its end I interviewed some key visitors, who were stakeholders for the organizers. 4. My evaluation was made based on the perceptions I collected with questionnaire ant interviews and on my own opinion about the relevance of the projects. 5. The reconstruction of the process of promoting and organizing the Fair was also very useful to interpret the meaning of final results. 6. And that is all I am able to share with you this moment.
Espíritu y Oportunidad
Sebastiao Darlan Mendonça Ferreira www.ideas2ideas.com emails: sebastiaomf@hotmail.com sebastiao@ideas2ideas.com
From: "Sarah Dotson"
Reply-To: "Knowledge Management for International Development Organisations"
To: "Knowledge Management for International Development Organisations"
Subject: [km4dev-l] Knowledge Fair reporting
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:50:05 -0400
Dear all, I am currently documenting the development of and the lessons learned from the Decent Work and the Informal Economy Knowledge Fair (currently partially displayed at the International Labour Office in Geneva). Does anyone have an example of a report documenting such a process or a model that they think would work? This process is relatively new ground for the ILO, and new to me, so I would appreciate any ideas or assistance anyone can offer.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely, Sarah Dotson Consultant International Labour Office, Geneva
