Online Competitions: Defining Success and Demonstrating Impact- upcoming event

A KM Impact Challenge Event hosted by the Society for International Development (SID) Washington DC Knowledge Management Workgroup

Date: Tuesday October 26, 2010
Time:  12:30pm - 2pm

Venue: International Resources Group (IRG) and Webinar (see details below)
Address: 1211 Connecticut Avenue NW; 4^th Floor; Washington, DC 

Online Competitions-also referred to as Challenges, Knowledge Fairs, and Innovation Markets-are gaining popularity and becoming a go-to knowledge management tool.  But how do we define (and achieve) success-and perhaps more importantly for continued investment, how do we measure and demonstrate their impact?  What can online competitions contribute to improve development effectiveness?

The event will feature presentations from a few practitioners including: Kris Herbst, Creative Manager and Alexa Clay, Knowledge and Learning Manager, Ashoka's Changemakers; Gail Davenport, the World Bank Institute; Daniel Munz, U.S. General Services Administration who will share insights and recommendations from their experience.  There will also be the opportunity for audience members to share and discuss their perspectives.

Join us to advance our collective understanding of this topic!

Moderators:

Stacey Young  Senior Knowledge Management Advisor at USAID and Co-chair of the SID KM Workgroup

Tony Pryor       Senior Manager at International Resources Group and Co-chair of the SID KM Workgroup

REGISTRATION:

Click here to RSVP for this event or visit www.sidw.org and navigate to the October 26 KM workgroup event page listed in the event calendar.

To register for the webinar, visit https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/917629656.

For more information regarding the event, or if you have a specific experience you'd like to share, please contact Marie-Ange Binagwaho, mbinagwaho@irgltd.com.  

About the Sponsors

The KM Impact Challenge is an initiative of the Knowledge-Driven Microenterprise Development (KDMD) project under the USAID Microenterprise Development (MD) office.

The Society for International Development-Washington Chapter is a diverse global forum of international development practitioners and serves as a knowledge broker for ideas and best practices.  SID-Washington is a leading global development membership organization that provides a space for dialogue and bridges a dynamic community of individuals and institutions working in international development.

Louise Clark organizes a successful KM Impact Assessment session at the AgKnowledge Africa

Louise Clark organized and co-facilitated the Knowledge Management Impact Assessment session at the AgKnowledge Africa event this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.   In this session, practitioners shared their experiences and discussed the challenges they face when trying to measure or assess the impact of their KM investments or initiatives.

There was great attendance and people were very energized during the session that used the open popcorn (brainstorm) and world cafe techniques, to facilitate the sharing and exchange of practitioner's experiences and knowledge in the topic. The discussion will also provide input to the Knowledge Management Impact Challenge initiative, that we are supporting, to ensure that it responds to the real issues that practitioners face.   

Watch the ShareFair's interview of Louise on the Knowledge Management Impact Challenge:

Joining the discussion about KM Impact Assessment

The Impact Alliance will be participating next week in the SID Knowledge Management (KM) Workgroup Event on Impact Assessment Methodologies for KM.

Participants will be sharing methodologies and approaches for measuring KM investments that will contribute to the discussion and also feed into the collaborative discovery and mapping process of the KM Impact Challenge initiative that the Impact Alliance is facilitating.

If you cannot make the event on October 12 in Washington, DC you can still actively participate via the webinar. To sign up for the Webinar click here click here.

Click here to read the event details and to RSVP

To submit your favorite methodologies contact click here.

The Impact Alliance partners with USAID in the Knowledge Management Impact Challenge Initiative

The Knowledge Management (KM) Impact Challenge will bring people together to develop better methods to meet the challenges of figuring out how to effectively measure the results and impact of investing in KM and learning, focus our efforts and resources, and make the case for KM to senior managers.

The Impact Alliance partnered with USAID to facilitate the KM Impact Challenge initiative that has three main components-- the Collaborative discovery, the Online Challenge, and the KM Share Fair-- where practitioners and organizations will come together to discover, document and share effective KM impact assessment practices.  This will be a collaborative learning process around what works and what doesn’t; identifying effective practical measurement tools for assessing the impact of KM investments and advance standards of good practice.

We invite you to share with us your favorite articles or web links to valuable resources on the topic.

For details about the KM Impact Challenge initiative and to learn more on how you can participate please read the Overview document.  Please consider that the KM Impact Challenge web site is still under construction and will be launching in the next weeks, so check back soon for updates on the date for its official launch. 

Make sure you are following us on twitter and on facebook where we will be sharing more information about the KM Impact Challenge initiative.