New instruments for virtual CoP work

Human Development Community of Practice Meeting

Bratislava, 21 May 2008

How it works now?

Advantages Extensive network (1000+

professionals) Keep track of ‘Consolidated

Answers’ Pre-moderated

Disadvantages ‘Asking the whole world’ ‘Yet Another Email’ Not very fast No way to communicate

ideas?

How it works now?

Advantages Fast way to get answer Connecting to resource

persons Disadvantages

Don’t keep track of questions

No way to communicate ideas

Don’t involve all potentially interested

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What is the new webspace?

Less formal More regional focus One entry point

ws.undp.sk/human_development Two tools

Group discussions Blog plus sharing files associated with discussions plus list of participants = Who-is-doing-what

Group discussions

Raise the question, which could be interesting for many

Share the idea, document, etc

Ask for comments

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Blog

News and articles in reverse chronological order

Sharing pieces of knowledge

Everyone could comment

(coming soon) Everyone could write

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