The INFO Project Blog

The next session I attend at the ScienceBlogging conference is Overcoming Obstacles to Open Science in the Developing World. Conversation on connectivity and access pings back and forth. Discussion leader: Vedran Vucic. Join the discussion online.

Participant (working in DRC on bonobo research): My main function is to get information out to rest of the world. Our researchers don’t have access to computers. Terrible war. Extreme poverty coupled with extreme wealth. Congolese people [we work with] doing extraordinary amount to keep orphans alive. The solar panel breaks, wireless is supposed to hook up to satellites. Rain comes six months a year and you’ve got nothing. How can we get information in–reliable information. Sitting in café you don’t want to be reading something with false information. Read the rest of this entry »

At the 2008 Science Blogging conference in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Dr. Hemai Parthasarathy is leading a discussion of the flawed but enormously exciting concept-in-practice that is Open Science.

Four laptops in a row are open in my row–facts being checked, backgrounds googled–and Hemai’s presentation is becoming a conversation. Participants add lessons learned (in italics).

Hemai: This is my first “un-conference”. I’m a scientist. Used to talking to scientists. Studied neuroscience at MIT.

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Photoshare manager/maestro David Alexander just announced the winning images for the 2007 contest.  

A striking black and white image of a Filipino farmer set against a background of rice fields won 1st Place/Best of Show at the 5th Annual Photoshare Photo Contest. Sam De Leon submitted the winning photo in the competition sponsored by The INFO Project at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP).

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Drs. Julie Ferguson from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam emailed the KM4Dev Listserv today with the following survey announcement.

I am conducting research on knowledge management in development organizations (after a number of years as a knowledge management for development practitioner at among others IICD and Hivos). In this context, I would like to make a quick inventory of development networks (or ‘communities of practice’).

Click here to take the survey.

Findings will be posted on The Giraffe, a blog dedicated to exploring the use of knowledge in development-focused organizations, and circulated throughout the KM4Dev community.

I’m not speaking another language.  I came across a thread in the Knowledge Management for Development list-serve discussing dimdim.  Dim dim is an open source web meeting tool.  No software is required.  Users can request an invitation to the service upon visiting the site. Read the rest of this entry »