Invitation to a discussion of work-in-progress on the management of knowledge for

development:

Discussion: Who owns the truth? The role of different types of

knowledge in development

Location: Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague

Date: Wednesday 24 June

Time: 13.30-17.30 followed by drinks in the ISS bar

Programme

13.30 A short introduction to IKM Emergent (Mike Powell, IKM Emergent) and an

overview of the afternoon’s programme (Sarah Cummings, IKM

Emergent/Context, international cooperation)

13.45 Who knows?

Who owns the truth? Different validations for personal, community, specialist, organisational

and holistic knowledges (Prof. Valerie E. Brown, Australian National University)

Translating the truth in ethnographic research: who knows? (Dr Martha Chinouya, London

School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)

Discussion in groups

14.30 Recent research (3 presentations, 10 minutes each, with discussion in World cafe)

The link between knowledge and policy (Simon Hearn, Research and Policy in Development

(RAPID), Overseas Development Institute, UK)

The state of the art of organisational knowledge management (Ewen Le Borgne, IRC

International Water and Sanitation Centre)

Knowledge management & multiple knowledges: a multi-case study within the development

sector (Paula Zirschky)

Working Group 3 of the Information and Knowledge Management Emergent

Research Programme (IKM Emergent) is critically examining the role of information

and knowledge management practice within development organisations.

The Working Group (Valerie A. Brown, Julie E. Ferguson, Simon Hearn, Ewen Le

Borgne, Kingo Mchombu and Sarah Cummings) would like to present some of the

research that we have undertaken to date and, with you, examine our plans for

research and collaboration in the coming period.

15.15 World café… (with coffee and tea)

16.00 Fish bowl on the evaluation of knowledge management

Complexity and the implications for evaluation of knowledge management: the case of the IKM

Emergent Research Programme (Dr Chris Mowles, Red Kite Partners/Complexity and

Management Centre, University of Hertfordshire, UK)

Discussion in a fish bowl

16.30 IKM’s plans for the future

Development of knowledge management activities in Namibia (Prof. Kingo Mchombu, Dean of

Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Namibia)

An introduction to scientometrics and possible implications for development (Dr Iina Hellsten,

Athena Institute, VU University and Sarah Cummings)

Other developing plans on corporate epistemologies, informal organizations and networks,

evaluation of knowledge management etc.

Discussion in three groups

17.30 Close (and drinks in the ISS bar)

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