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Stacey Young of USAID reflects on the complexity of measuring the impact of Knowledge Management activities and discusses some of the lessons learned from the KM Impact Challenge.
Stacey Young, USAID
The community built around the KM Impact Challenge continues to thrive and the KMIC team is working diligently to set the stage for...
Louise Clark of the KM Impact Challenge team shares some reflections on the key themes and discussions that took place during the meeting
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations is co-sponsoring a conference that many KM Impact Challenge members may find relevant. This year the focus is on evaluation and learning. You can link to the event web page and event blog here: http://www.geolearningconference2011.org/
The following is an excerpt from their web site:
At a time when government, private donors and the general public are increasingly...
Chris Addison and Luz Marina Alvare offered participants in the KM Impact Challenge unConference an indepth look at how IFPRI is collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitaive data in terms of web traffic and social media engagement.
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Mike Powell, Director of IKM Emergent has been one of the keynote speaker in the second day of the KM Impact Challenge unConference. According to Mike, evelopment has to be integrated directly with knowledge and learning methods. You cannot have progress without knowledge of the problem through and through.
See Mike's presentation and a video interview with him below here:
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The recordings of the webinars of the KM Impact Challenge unConference are now available for reply and download at the links below:
Day 1
The second day of the KM Impact unConference opened with 2 excellent keynote presentations which provided great food for thoughts to participant - in the room as well as on line through the webinar and Twitter stream.
In the spirit of the unConference, a key part of today's KM Impact Challenge event has been the agenda creation session.
The burining issues indicated by participants, together with the elements emerged in the...
A total of 46 case stories have been submitted for the KM Impact challenge. Today, 13 of these cases have been presented at the unConference.
Participants divided in...
Some 70 people are gathering in Washington, DC, today and tomorrow to participate in the KM Impact Challenge unConference.
The...
Louise Clark from the Impact Alliance has been involved in the KM Impact Challenge from its beginning. At the UnConference unfolding in Washington DC she provided participants with some background information on the objectives behind the KM Impact Challenge, the international community it has mobilized, the number and types of cases stories it has collected.
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Thank you to all of you who registered to attend in the KM Impact Challenge unConference that will be taking place this May 5-6,2011 in Washington, DC. We are excited to see so much interest from all of you-- we received over 140 applications to attend! Unfortunately, because of space limitations we will only be able to accommodate 60 participants at the venue.
We want to invite those of you that will not attend the event in person to participate in the...
We have been busy for the past few weeks laying the foundations for our upcoming unConference that will take place in Washington on the 5th and 6th May. We are delighted that so many of our case story finalists are able to join us to discuss their experiences and lessons in person at this event but also very sorry that some of...
Date: May 5-6, 2011 from 9:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Venue: ASAE’s Marriott Learning Complex,...
Thank you to everyone that shared a case story with us!
Congratulations to all the Top Finalists and to the case story authors of the following 6 case stories that have been selected to receive travel awards to share...
The KM Impact Challenge collected a total of 47 case stories, providing a rich diversity of experience across sectors and continents describing a wide range of different KM initiatives and an assortment of assessment approaches. All of these stories have been analyzed to enhance our shared understanding of the challenge of measuring the impact of KM by identifying our common challenges, key lessons and outstanding questions. These findings have been compiled into a synthesis...
On the 27th January 2011 the KM Impact Challenge organized a webinar which was attended by 30 at the Society of International Development Washington Chapter with a further 125 people from 27 countries listening online. The event featured 2 presentations; firstly...
A KM Impact Challenge Event hosted by the Society for International Development (SID) Washington DC Knowledge Management Workgroup and The Knowledge-Driven Microenterprise Development Project
Please join us for a KM Impact Challenge live presentation and webinar on Thursday, January 27 at 12:30 pm EST at 1211 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC. The event will feature two presentations on the monitoring and evaluation of knowledge management. In the first presentation, a...
This upcoming event from GTZ / BMZ will be of interest to many of us exploring how to measure what matters in our knowledge and learning initiatives. The following is an excerpt from the GTZ web site:
On January 25 and 26, 2011 the Evaluation and Audit Division of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Evaluation Unit of GTZ offer a forum to discuss systemic approaches to evaluation at an international conference. On the basis of presentations...
In this blog post we continue our series of interviews with members of the Technical Advisory Group. I talked to Sophie Alvarez and Simone Staiger from CIAT who were kind enough to share their thoughts on why the question of measuring the impact of KM is so difficult. The post outlines a number of the contradictions between Impact Assessment and KM and suggests some practical tips and tools to help us to clarify our...
In order to stimulate our discussions and inspire you to submit your stories to the KM Impact Challenge we present the first in a series of interviews with members of our Technical Advisory Group. Jorge Chavez-Tafur, the editor of Farming Matters, is a member of our TAG and in this blog post disusses some...
"Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted". Einstein
In the summer of 2010, Stefano Barale made a post to the KM4Dev discussion group asking ‘Is it actually possible to measure Knowledge Sharing?’ This question stimulated an animated discussion with 76 responses from members of the community who were keen to share their experiences and perspectives on this question. This synthesis aims...
The KM Impact Challenge is now live and gathering case-stories on what works and what doesn't in our efforts to measure and explain the changes resulting from our learning and knowledge activities. In addition to listening to your experiences, the Challenge is compliing a comprehensive collection of existing literature addressing these issues. This blog post will highlight some of the resources that we feel are particularly relevant.
There are currently over 40 references in the...
This morning I received the Hivos Knowledge Program newsletter which shares a number of discussions held at the ‘Knowledge and Change: Theory and Practice of development dilemmas’ 29th September 2010
I found these reflections on the relationship between Knowledge and Change to be particularly relevant to the KM Impact challenge as they focus on the multiple knowledges that...
I just read on Mashable that Twitter is testing a new analytics product to give users more information about the use of their tweets. According to the article, Twiter analytics will provide charts to tell people which tweets were most successful, which tweets caused people to unfollow and the most influential users that reply and retweet their messages.
Twitter is probably the...
During the Sharefair in Addis I was fortunate to be able to talk to a number of experts who are addressing the questions of KM Impact in their work and I am happy to be able to share these conversations. It is...
As we prepare for the launch of the KMIC and open this blog on the issues related to measuring impact of knowledge management I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on the KM Impact Session held at the Sharefair in Addis last month and how we can build upon the ideas and experiences that emerged during this dynamic session. An overview of the session can be read on the...
The KM Impact Challenge and the Society for International Development sponsored a recent event that focused on how online competitions are being used to spark innovation and knowledge exchange. The event featured three presentations (listen now) from Ashoka's Changemakers, The World Bank Institute and the U.S. General Services Administration that described how they each approach...
Louise Clark, from the Impact Alliance, organized and co-facilitated the Knowledge Management Impact Assessment session at the AgKnowledge Africa event on October 18th in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In this session, practitioners shared their...
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