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12 Articles match "CoP","Ghana"
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
was simply unaware of the label, the research and scholarship around these things we call “CoPs.” 8221; Back in the late 90’s technology was just used for distributed Cops - folks who could not physically be together. Then it was Azerbaijan, Georgia (the country), Armenia, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, Columbia, Ghana, Ethiopia, and a multitude of international NGOs based in Europe and North America who gave me the opportunity to apply online interaction This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media.
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Monday, September 1, 2008
Peter is now in Ghana, although he lives in Italy, Bertha (originally from Latin America) is at her desk in Switzerland, like -at a different organization - Riff, a Canadian. Introducing CoPs and network ways of working introduces organizational change - so be ready. We have been doing this, all of us for ever, the only differerence now is that thanks to the 20 or so years of writing on CoPs, Lave, Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Aug 27 2008 From courses to community: Josien Kapma and Nancy White Published by Nancy White at 6:42 am under communities of practice , learning This is an article that Josien Kapma
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
In Ghana (all flags around to celebrate the 50 years independence see picture) I finally have the time to catch up with my bloglines, missed CPsquare teleconferences and blogposts in my head. In a way, the tagging experiment has brought a new member into the e-collaboration CoP, a person who might be an fanatic tagger (?). The constellation of CoPs as represented by the formal Nten, Netsquared, Though I couldn’t download the audio file (it would take 5 hours...), I read the chatnotes of a teleconference call on the community formed around the NPtech social bookmarking experience
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Sunday, May 7, 2006
When I work in Ghana I am conscious of the fact that I don't know the context as a Ghanaian would and try to give different options when I propose something and ask for ideas and feedback. During the tech forum in Ghana I did a presentation on communities of practice and we asked for questions and examples of CoPs in Ghana. The participants could easily identify with the idea of social learning and mentioned various examples of CoPs in Ghana: * Accra Linux User Group- people with an interest in the same thing come together voluntarily * Informal women’s groups
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
The list is longer than I thought: Community of ICT4D trainers ILO/CIARIS experiences in lusophone Africa Communities of practice in India CoP in Ghana Tech forum in Kumasi, Ghana The community empowerment network in Central Asia Ayuda Urbana, a cop on urban development in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean Communities of practice at CARE International E-collaboration amongst Dutch development organisations Thailand Community of practice on e-government UNDP's experiences in India UNDP's knowledge networks 5 examples from Latin America Obstacles to knowledge
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Sunday, July 2, 2006
In Ghana I had the impression my 3 years of work experience in Takoradi, Ghana, is still helping me in my work in Ghana, even though my current work is with different partners and in a completely different field (ICT4D). I also had a car conversation during my stay in Ghana about professors and how you recognise a good one. People While reading my bloglines back in the Netherlands, I came across this post by Anecdote. It was so relevant to me that I decided to crosspost it on my own blog.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
was simply unaware of the label, the research and scholarship around these things we call “CoPs.” 8221; Back in the late 90’s technology was just used for distributed Cops - folks who could not physically be together. Then it was Azerbaijan, Georgia (the country), Armenia, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, Columbia, Ghana, Ethiopia, and a multitude of international NGOs based in Europe and North America who gave me the opportunity to apply online interaction This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media.
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Thursday, November 3, 2005
also wonder how you may use the power of these networks for CoP purposes? (nice nice question to take along on my trip to Ghana and it reminds me that I read an article on social networks in Ghana I may review. It also reminds me that I may read old messages of com-prac to see which other practical examples of CoPs in the south are share David Mould has posted something in com-prac@yahoogroups.com with regard to his experiences with communities of practice in Thailand: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/com-prac/message/5690 I recognised especially his important point about the extensive social networks (from the countries I worked in), which are very effective in getting questions and answers across.
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Sunday, October 30, 2005
In July I was in Ghana to work with a network on ICT for development called GINKS ) and met Janet Kwami, an interesting researcher for the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was involved in an ethnographic study in one urban and one rural location in Ghana, part of a larger research in four countries (Ghana, South Africa, Jamaica and India). haven't got a hold I She found that the most important ICTs in the region are trotros (busses), cars and human bodies, communication flows are channeled by trade (market gatherings), business and family ties.
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Thursday, December 8, 2005
Personaly I like it a lot when people throw their whole lives into the train! A difference between Ghana and the Netherlands is that here you are supposed to put your mobile off in meetings. In Ghana, in 2003, important people used to leave their mobiles on and answer the phone during the meeting (whispering though). The 7-8 years suddenly remind me of the fact that in the UNDP case Yesterday in the train, a girl was talking loudly to a friend using her mobile. Two men sitting opposite her told her to lower her voice. (I
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
In Ghana (all flags around to celebrate the 50 years independence see picture) I finally have the time to catch up with my bloglines, missed CPsquare teleconferences and blogposts in my head. In a way, the tagging experiment has brought a new member into the e-collaboration CoP, a person who might be an fanatic tagger (?). The constellation of CoPs as represented by the formal Nten, Netsquared, Though I couldn’t download the audio file (it would take 5 hours...), I read the chatnotes of a teleconference call on the community formed around the NPtech social bookmarking experience
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Monday, March 13, 2006
Note that we get the word community at two level: community-driven development and community of practice- this is sometimes confusing in CoPs for development. And I was actually surprised because about a CoP for community-driven development, as it seems a common development paradigm in the south since the 80s already, maybe not so in Central Asia? The lessons they want to share are: * Peer review among countries Erik Caldwell Johnson wrote a Capacity Development Brief on the Community Empowerment Network, a community of practice for local capacity in Central Asia. The World
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Friday, January 27, 2006
I liked the way he revisits project management and 'projectmatig werken', because I'm very tired of projects, after 10 years in Mali, Ethiopia and Ghana. Advice at the end of the book: try to be creative and not reactive (something I find easier in CoPs than in organisations or projects ...). I read the book by Daniel Ofman called Bezieling en kwaliteit in organisaties (don't know how to translate 'bezieling', the rest means quality in organisations). I
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