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• development e-book author invitation

  Posted by Jan Goossenaerts on 26 June 2010

  

  Development e-books interacting with systematized content commons will soon offer a superior reader and author experience. If you are a development expert with good knowledge of any of the languages of the world (alongside English), then you are invited to join www.atria.us , and join the discussion at: http://www.atria.us/content/development-e-books-interacting-systematized-content-commons  

  • Tags: business development, knowledge sharing, publishing services
  • Posted:06/26/2010 02:14:12 PM | Email | Permalink
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• Progress on Systematized Content Commons.. soon at work for development

  Posted by Jan Goossenaerts on 30 April 2010

  

  Stakeholder mapping is increasingly recognized as an important instrument for achieving local ownership of development initiatives. A prototype of a wiki-based actor atlas is now available at http://www.actor-atlas.info/ In its current version, the actor atlas includes for UN, EU, countries, international coalitions, sectors: + Actor maps (details at http://www.actor-atlas.info/mr-item1): a list of (public sector) actors + Statute books (http://www.actor-atlas.info/mr-item2 ): a list of...

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  • Tags: actor atlas, aid effectiveness, participatory development, wiki
  • Posted:04/30/2010 08:32:02 AM | Email | Permalink
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• Co-developer Invitation

  Posted by Jan Goossenaerts on 11 September 2009

  

  Along the lines that have been discussed at the portal on the recently published Knowledge for Poverty Alleviation (KPA) framework  and its development , I am currently setting up a wiki to kick-off collective programme management giving due consideration to value and risk drivers of ALL involved in development. Scaling up of the effort will be governed by a Convention on Knowledge Commons (CKC) that will recruit a broad community of practitioners that: + launch constituency/situation-sp...

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  • Tags: convention on knowledge commons
  • Posted:09/11/2009 09:04:46 AM | Email | Permalink
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• Divergence on IP issues at UN Climate talks

  Posted by Jan Goossenaerts on 14 September 2009

  

  See IP Watch article for the article and a comment, announcing an unsollicited initiative on Global Patent Pools.Additional relevant background is in Francis Gurry's acceptance speech to the WIPO General Assembly on his appointment as Director General (September 22, 2008), and in the recent Policy Forum article published in Science: Brian Walker, Scott Barrett, Stephen Polasky, Victor Galaz, Carl Folke, Gustav Engstrom, Frank Ackerman, Ken Arrow, Stephen Carpenter, Kanchan Chopra, Gr...

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  • Posted:09/14/2009 09:10:19 AM | Email | Permalink
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• Extension Services that tap into knowledge, and then pass information to smallholders

  Posted by Jan Goossenaerts on 02 September 2009

  

   See acacia-tree-can-boost-crops-and-more-across-africa  for a story on how Acacia trees can boost crops - and more - across Africa.In it,  Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, says that the lack of extension services that tap into agroforestry science from research institutions and universities and then pass information to smallholders is a great disservice to the quest for food security in Africa.The development and deployment...

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  • Tags: acacia food-security e-learning oer tenure-rights inclusive gim efa
  • Posted:09/02/2009 08:39:02 AM | Email | Permalink
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