Archive for June, 2008

80+ participants from all over the world gathered in Almada’s open space on knowledge management for development. Their faces and other gathering pictures were geotagged on a Flickr map here
http://www.flickr.com/groups/km4dev2008/pool/map?mode=group
Currently the Flickr map doesn’t support showing ALL photos in one go, so to have a good idea from where we all came from, use the [...]

Open space is great in a way that it provides space for people to discuss whatever that matters them most. There was session to discuss the challenges faced by organization to share their knowledge and experiences and problems of convincing their senior management about relevance of knowledge sharing. Nancy came out with some questions that [...]

Open Space was adopted for gearing up the discussion in the group. Hall was full of crowds who were eager to share their experiences of knowledge sharing and management. There was open space facilitated by Marc. The interesting part was the demo on principles of Open Space where Riff, Lucie, Allison and Peter just portrayed [...]

On 19 and 20 June we butterfly, glue on and bumblebee in 10 breakout spaces from one to the next session. Documentation of sessions can be found here:
http://www.km4dev.org/wiki/index.php/Open_Space_Discussion_Reports

An opening of KM4Dev 2008 at HI – Lisbon – Pousada de Juventude de Almada Hostel happened with lots of enthusiasm of participating members of the community. The venue is full of natural air and very far from pollution. The nice view of sea and city of Lisbon from the hall was giving more [...]

The market place this morning was amazing, people immediately came forward proposing their subjects in just one line. We had at least 40 people presenting their topic in 30 seconds, and they all fitted quite nicely in the grid of spaces and timeslots on the “market wall”. Right now I am in a session on [...]

sessions documented

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Social Program

This information is very important before you decide which meals to eat at the venue.
On the 18th, maybe around sunset, a group will walk to the statue of Cristo Rei nearby to gaze at the views.
On the 19th after dinner, Paula da Costa, who was one of the persons putting carnation flowers in gun barrels [...]

[Of all EU kids, the portuguese get to eat most veggies. In the soups]
Portuguese food
Lunch is serious business in Portugal. A time to break the day, eat a good meal, preferably consisting of soup, main and desert, maybe a glass of wine, and a strong coffee afterwards to conclude. It is definitely not something to [...]