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Our experience in communication, knowledge sharing and learning: climate change & development issues
Blane Harvey, Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, discusses his research on climate change knowledge sharing, communication, and learning in developing countries.
Here Rajesh, Executive Director of the National Conference of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), points out the lack of capacity of local organisations in Uttarakhand to access and manage knowledge.
Here Udayan from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) details a key knowledge challenge for organisations in more remote areas - the lack of technical infrastructure and capacity to garner information.
Here Ravi talks about the challenge of sharing knowledge in remote mountain areas, and his own organisation's need to increase their access to development knowledge.
This session sought to offer solutions, perspectives and explore collective efforts that could address the identified gaps, barriers and challenges to the effective use of research knowledge in South Asia. Six overarching areas of work were discussed in small groups - designing demand-led knowledge services; language; creating an open culture of knowledge sharing; creating an enabling environment for community-generated knowledge flow; building the capacity, profile, and resources of intermedi...
What are the barriers to the effective use of research knowledge in South Asia? The session broke out in to smaller groups to explore the challenges, the gaps and obstacles to the effective sharing of knowledge. Some common factors identified included gaps in access to skills, training, IT infrastructure and resources to share knowledge; poor connections between knowledge producers and users and between local and global knowledge; and challenges around the ethics of knowledge sharing. A key ob...
Here Jon Gregson, head of IDS Knowledge Services, thanked participants for attending the two days and explained the process and rationale in organising the workshop.
The four sessions highlighted a range of potential activities that could be undertaken to strengthen the South Asian knowledge environment. For the Co-production session these included linking academic research and practice by promoting demand driven research; Engaging the media and corporate sector in development outcomes and Promoting and developing open access data in an Indian and south Asian context. For the strengthening demand for knowledge group ideas were discussed around access to in...
This presentation by NR International focused on recent learning relevant to understanding the knowledge sharing landscape in India - drawing from an evaluation of ELDIS. It also highlights some gaps and opportunities for future work.