On day one of our workshop we asked participants to think in groups about their project’s internal strengths, weaknesses, and external opportunities and threats. The findings were written on cards and then grouped and analyzed. As part of the post workshop documentation process we created tag clouds (www.tagcrowd.com) and discover the following patterns:
Key internal strengths [...]
Last but not least we went through an evaluation of the workshop. As a way to share reflections and to crystallize trends, we asked participants to reflect individually and answer three questions, then to share those answers in pairs and finally in groups of four.
When asked what was useful for them from the last three [...]
These are the projects that participants have been working on and where phase 3 can provide opportunities for joint learning:
Selam Alemayehu (ILRI): Enhancing research through a collaborative approach. Implement a tool that strengthens collaborative research and work.
Vanessa Meadu (ICRAF): A Web site to support the PRESA Community of Practice.
Nadia Manning (ICT-KM): Knowledge sharing in [...]
On our last day and before lunch we hold a session based on the needs and knowledge gaps that we had identified the day before, and that participants considered as important for their projects. We used the session to introduce the Open Space Technology, even if we used it only to a certain extent. Participants [...]
