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Call for Papers
KM4Dev Journal Vol. 3, Issue 1, June 2007
“Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community
Building &
Knowledge Sharing in Development”
The ‘Knowledge Management for Development Journal’ (KM4D
Journal) is
an open access, peer-reviewed, community-based journal on
knowledge
management in development – for and by development
practitioners and
researchers. The journal is closely related to the KM4dev
community
of practice, and can be read and downloaded at:
www.km4dev.org/journal
Vol. 3, Issue 1, to be published in June 2007, will focus
on
innovative practices and uses of ‘technologies for
knowledge
sharing’. This focus comes on the wave of new web based
tools and
processes supporting knowledge sharing, knowledge management
and
organizational learning that have emerged. Sometimes called
"Web 2.0"
technologies, these tools allow people to collaborate over
time and
distance in both new ways and in new networked forms. It
builds on
previous issues on the importance of networks, working
across
boundaries and even sustainability.
Guest editors are comprised of Nancy White, Beth Kanter,
Beverly
Trayner, Partha Sarker and Brenda Zulu, in combination with
Chief
Editor, Lucie Lamoureux.
Rationale International development has always had to work
across
time and distance. With the increased access to internet
connected
computers and the development of a wider range of web based
collaboration technologies, sometimes called "social
software," a new
practice is emerging of stewarding technology for knowledge
sharing,
knowledge management, collaboration and learning. By
stewarding, we
mean paying attention not just to the technology, but how it
usefully
applied by groups. Groups from within, across and between
organizations can now work together every day without being
in the
same location. Collaborative networks which were never
possible due
to geographic limitations are now sharing knowledge,
collecting data
and doing team work.
The emergence and application of tools such as blogs, wikis,
tagging,
social search, web based content and learning management
systems, pod
and vodcasting intersect with various forms of collaboration
such as
distributed communities of practice, networks, and online
communities.
Attention to the useful stewarding of technology is
particularly
important. The market changes rapidly. The accessibilty of
the tools
means many people are experimenting in diverse way. We are
learning
new processes and practices of technology in use and
understanding
the implications of technology on group dynamics. Sharing
stories and
knowledge in terms of how this technology is being stewarded
is a
critical piece of increasing both access to successful
practices and
increased success in collaboration. In this issue we hope to
"shine a
light" on technology stewardship for knowledge sharing
and
collaboration in development.
This issue:
It is easy to focus on the technologies. They hype around
"Web 2.0"
and the crowded market of technology providers can make it
easy to be
both distracted and overwhelmed by the tools. But
technologies alone
don't create change or achieve goals. It is the people and
practices
using the tools that matter. This issue of the KM4Dev
Journal will
address the question of how how the international
development
community is identifying distributed collaboration
opportunities,
picking and configuring technology and developing practices
to
support the collaboration. The emphasis will be not just on
the
technology itself, but the processes of using technology to
collaborate. What have we learned about what works, what
doesn't work
and what is just another distraction?
The issue will include papers from technology stewards and
online
knowledge sharing practitioners in the South and North. Of
particular
interest are recent experiences with both the the processes
of
supporting distributed collaboration and knowledge sharing,
and the
use of web based tools in that collaboration.
We invite technology stewards and online knowledge sharing
practitioners, NGOs, resource centres, research institutes,
think
tanks, bilateral and multilateral development agencies and
other
organizations working in the context of development
cooperation to
propose papers covering topics such as:
* Main challenges for distributed knowledge sharing
and
collaboration
* Preconditions, entry points and strategies for using
web based
technologies for collaboration and KS
* Experience gained in supporting adoption of
distributed tools
and processes for collaboration and KS (case studies
featuring
Dgroups experiences are especially welcome)
* Specific approaches adopting web based collaboration
technologies
* Effective capacity building practices ensuring the
long-term
viability of distributed collaboration and KS
* Considerations on how to balance web based
collaboration and
KS with more traditional F2F approaches, including issues
of
inclusion or exclusion with both approaches
* Specific issues of development cooperation to be
considered in
capacity building for distributed collaboration and KS such
as
internet access, cost of technology infrastructure,
intercultural
communication, impact of technology on power, gender, or
learning
modalities
* Reflections on capacity building for South-South
distributed
collaboration and KS
* Future agenda for the stewarding of technology for
collaboration and KS
About the team of guest editors
Nancy White is an independent consultant from the United
States and a
KM4D Journal Editorial Board Member.
Beth Kanter is an independent consultant from the United
States.
Bev Trayner is an independent consultant from Portugal.
Partha Sarker is a Researcher with Telecentre.org (Canada)
and Co-
founder of Bytes for All (India).
Brenda Zulu is a Zambian freelance journalist and OneWorld
Africa
(OWA) volunteer editor.
Proposed deadlines
Submission deadline for the title and abstract
28 February 2007
Acceptance of paper proposal
15 March 2007
Submission of paper
15 April 2007
Peer-review completed
15 May 2007
Author revision completed and final version of paper
submitted
31 May 2007
(e)-publication date
15 June 2007
If you would like to submit a paper, or be actively involved
in this
initiative in any other ways, please send your abstract
(minimum one
paragraph – maximum one page) or your message by email to
km4dj-
editors dgroups.org
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