Workshop at I&DeA communities gathering
April 16, 2007 – 12:57 amI’m doing a workshop with The Improvement and Development Agency soon about the gritty details of making stuff happen in communities (including some of the things I tried which didn’t make anything happen).
I’m a firm believer in admitting and learning from mistakes, or ‘Knowledge Crisis Management’ as my friend Mark coined last night, because otherwise we continue repeating them in the name of adoption of technology for its own sake (no reference to IDeA, that was just an aside).
They recently launched a shiney new CoP platform for local government people in order to assist with:
Connecting people who learn and share - a service for local government funded by local government
They are now in the early stages of nurturing their networks in order to foster an environment where communities can ‘emerge’ from people who have identified a knowledge-sharing need and potential network.
I have been interested in this from the start when Steve Dale first told me about it as it is a similar social model we developed at CILIP; whereby the centre acts as a facilitator and not a director; a network fostering model rather than a top-down. This takes work and imagination and time, so I am more than happy to come along and share stuff I’ve seen around and about.
