facilitation

The Dance of Mapping and Facilitation – Field Building at a Global Agricultural Conference

Aldo de Moor & Nancy White

When Nancy White and I stepped onto the stage at the KM Triversary Forum 2025, a global online conference on Knowledge Management for Development, this year focused on bridging the research-practice gap, we weren’t just presenting another conference paper. We were sharing a story eight years in the making, one that began in a conference hall in Lusaka, Zambia, and that challenges conventional wisdom about how we navigate complexity.

The Zambia Conference Experiment: Where It All Began

Picture this: January 2017, Lusaka, Zambia. Practitioners and researchers from across the globe gathered for the INGENAES Global Symposium and Learning Exchange—a USAID-funded initiative designed to bridge three seemingly disparate worlds: gender equity, nutrition, and agricultural extension services.… Read more...

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BarCamp Berlin 3 revisited

081129_mcs_barcamp_berlin_3On October 18-19, Barcamp Berlin 3 took place. It was organized in the impressive Berlin Representative Office of Deutsche Telekom. Over 800 people attended, a true bee hive of creative tech people from all walks of Internet life.

BarCamps are a special kind of conference, sometimes even called an “unconference”:

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

BarCamps live and breathe Web 2.0, not only in what they are about, but also by adopting its user-driven style in how they are organized. There is much attention on participatory process, or, rather, on providing an overall infrastructural framework, while making participants responsible for what topics are going to be discussed and in what way.… Read more...

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