ADB’s Community of Practice (CoP)

Induction ProgramBy Daan BoomRSDD KM Center15 November 2006

Outline of Presentation

• Historical Perspective

• ADB’s New CoPs

• C Cube: IT tool to support 3C

Historical Perspective

• 2001 Creating RSDD– Establishment of Committees and Networks

• 2003/4 Internal Review of reorganization– Issues with respect to sector and thematic

committees raised– Quality assurance vs operational support

• 2004 Approval of KMf and ISTS-II

• 2005 Approval of CoP

ADB’s New CoP

• New Functions – CoPs as think tank on:– Future directions of sectors and themes – ADB-wide sector/thematic work. – Sector/Theme-wide HR Issues – Knowledge Sharing

KMf and ISTS-IIKnowledge applications

• C-Cube (Communication, Coordination and Collaboration)

• Skills database

• Document Repository

• Internet/Intranet harmonization

• Search and Retrieval

Features of C-Cube

What is it?• A collaboration tool

– Internet-based– Real time– Password-protected– Accessible to invited

members– “Point and click”

method

Who can use it?• Any community in general

– Communities of Practice (formal)

– Other formal “communities” (e.g. project teams, divisions, task forces, etc.)

– Informal networks

How can C-Cube benefit you?

• COMMUNICATE ideas and insights through publishing, chat, discussion forums, and online meeting/conference tools

• COORDINATE tasks and events through project management tools such as calendar and tasks tools

• COLLABORATE with members in different locations through document sharing and online meeting/conference

• Hence 3C

Key Features• Discussion Forums (for both internal / Discussion Forums (for both internal /

external partners)external partners)

• Managed access from in- outside ADBManaged access from in- outside ADB

• On-line Newsletter On-line Newsletter

• Document Sharing (Who has the current Document Sharing (Who has the current version of the report?)version of the report?)

• Information sharing (publishing)Information sharing (publishing)

• Email notification when content is added Email notification when content is added to communityto community

• Electronic meetings (chat / web Electronic meetings (chat / web conferencing)conferencing)

CoP-MfDR

https://cop-mfdr.adb.orghttps://cop-mfdr.adb.orghttps://cop-mfdr.adb.orghttps://cop-mfdr.adb.org

CoP-DMC

https://cop-dmc.adb.orghttps://cop-dmc.adb.orghttps://cop-dmc.adb.orghttps://cop-dmc.adb.org

CoP-Water

https://cop-water.adb.orghttps://cop-water.adb.orghttps://cop-water.adb.orghttps://cop-water.adb.org

CoP-FM

https://cop-fm.adb.orghttps://cop-fm.adb.orghttps://cop-fm.adb.orghttps://cop-fm.adb.org

CoP-IEI

https://cop-iei.adb.orghttps://cop-iei.adb.orghttps://cop-iei.adb.orghttps://cop-iei.adb.org

WG-OIST

https://wg-oist.adb.orghttps://wg-oist.adb.orghttps://wg-oist.adb.orghttps://wg-oist.adb.org

WG-OED

https://wg-oed.adb.orghttps://wg-oed.adb.orghttps://wg-oed.adb.orghttps://wg-oed.adb.org

WG-SARD

https://sard.adb.orghttps://sard.adb.orghttps://sard.adb.orghttps://sard.adb.org

C-Cube (KM Center)

https://c-cube.adb.orghttps://c-cube.adb.orghttps://c-cube.adb.orghttps://c-cube.adb.org

How do I get engaged?

• Visit http://c-cube.adb.org

• E-mail kmcenter@adb.org