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HIPNet Meeting Minutes, April 16^th, 2010

11am-3pm, Capitol Room, Abt Associates Inc.

11:00 – 11:15 Welcome and Introductions, Laura Raney, FHI and Neha Suchak, Abt Associates Inc., HIPNet co-chairs

11:15-12:00 Global Health Initiative at USAID - Christopher Bonner (USAID/GH/HIDN)

Significant Investment in Global Health Has Improved Outcomes

-U.S Governments’ Global Health initiative

Global Health Initiative (GHI) promotes a new business model-based on core principles:

            -Support country ownership

            -Implement a woman and girl-centered approach

            -Increase impact through strategic coordination and integration

-Strengthen and leverage key multilateral organizations, GHC partnerships and private sector engagement

-Promote research and innovation to identify what works

GHI Initiatives Targets by 2015 (aggregate goals)

-HIV/AIDS, Child Health, Maternal Health, TB, NTDs, FP, Nutrition

GHI New Business Model

-Collaborative for impact, expand existing platforms to foster stronger systems and sustainable results

-Focusing on USG Investments to support goals, strategies and approaches, including strategic investments for GHI

-Working with government and partners to assess existing plans, health systems, financing gaps and capacity to identify gap needs

Conclusion- GHI has the opportunity to move USG global health programs to a new level of effectiveness, with a vision of long-term sustainability led by partner countries

12:00-12:45 Knowledge Management @ USAID - Peggy D’Adamo (USAID/GH/PRH/PEC)

-KM function based in Management Bureau > CIO office> KM Division

            -Development Experience Clearinghouse

            -KM Services Group

            -Library and References Services

Business Transformation Executive Committee (BTEC) developed KM strategy and IT strategic plan - empowered to meet and make decisions, has representatives from all bureaus

-Global Development Commons (part of original vision, envisioned to be a portal)

No KM culture at USAID; working on electronic management rules and regulations or agency-wide standards

Working on consensus about what should be collected and saved; no system of tools around the agency that everyone can use (case of funding)

A New Focus on KM
Internal wikis (Developedia); Internal blogs; new extranet (USAID AllNet)-portal to invite sharing; New DEC; Re-designed Intranets, Access to State Dept. Intranet (GHNET);

blogs; Intelink (Interlink.gov)-for partners to join the community - Not run by USAID, KM in the bureaus; Projects with KM mandate

Blogs @ USAID (uses Drupal software)

            -Change management

            -Multilateral approaches

            -Aid effectiveness

Thought on Development & KM

            Knowledge Management can support USG:

                        -exploring new organizational

KM @ USAID’s Global Health Bureau-Projects

            -Aim Project                                                   

            -Knowledge for Health

            -Environmental Health Task Order

KM @ USAID’s Global Health Bureau-Internal

            -Journal/book club group

            -Collaboration with KSC on access to journals

            -GH 360 and GH Notices

            -Brown bag (other)

12:45 – 1:00 Presentation on C-HUB, Communication Materials for Development - Sandra Kalseheur, Tammy Loverdos, C-Change, AED (see C-HUB Online)

-Media Materials Clearinghouse (MMC) converted to open source software called, e-prints

-Marketing as a collection of development materials: communication materials through various sectors

-Must log-in and register materials, users will be prompted to complete fields: title, subject, date, etc. (Submission process completely electronic)

-Aiming to preserve and share materials submitted (PDF and .jgp formats for submission)

-Process materials uploaded by users and approved by CChange for publishing (interim process)

-Preserve materials beyond the life of the project, not a requirement like DEC is a requirement, way to disseminate your materials

2:00-2:45 iCohere Technology – Ways to communicate, connect, and share information online across the globe - Lance Simon, VP Business Development, iCohere Inc.

iCohere Worldwide Virtual Conferences for 2010

-Virtual Conference Technologies

            -Media Player

            -Link Libraries

            -Section 508

-Recipe for a Successful Virtual Conference:

            -“Larger Purpose”

Mobile Conference Access

            iPhones, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Droid

-Supporting Virtual Conferences

2:45-3:00 Other announcements, updates from members, materials sharing, and choosing the topic, date and venue for the next meeting

The next HIPNet meeting will be held in September. We are looking for a venue as well as topics and speakers. We welcome your suggestions! Please contact HIPNet Co-Chairs Laura Raney, FHI, lraney@fhi.org and Katherine Williams, Population Council, kwilliams@popcouncil.org.

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