Communications and knowledge sharing strategy | The Global ...

This post was co-written by Christine Prefontaine & Melody Clark.

The Global Impact Study?s approach to communications and knowledge sharing has been evolving since the project started in 2007. Initial efforts focused on building a list of people and organizations who might be interested in the project, laying out our research design, and keeping folks up to date about new studies, early research outputs, and where we are in the process. You can download a current snapshot of the strategy.

Now it?s time to start thinking about how we?re going to package and disseminate findings. Specifically what types of formats and products are useful for donors, decision-makers, practitioners, and other researchers. At first glance, there are three broad categories of outputs, all of which will appeal to different people:

1. ?Meta? & Process ? Updates about how we?re working, why we made the decisions we did, etc. This content often remains invisible but it?s really important because it captures learning about how to design, implement, and get the most out of a project of this scope. And sharing this stuff is a key to doing open research. [This post falls into this category.]
2. Assets ? A lot of good tools, instruments, protocols, and methodologies get created when doing research. Again, important to the ?how,? to learning, and to building research capacity. These are practical outputs that can be adapted to conduct future research efforts.
3. Findings ? These are the research outputs. They come ?raw? (data) and ?value added? (articles, reports, presentations) ? with analysis and recommendations. This is the new knowledge generated over the last five years. Our goal will be to present this in a way that?s useful ? for decision-making, for advocacy, as a basis for more learning.

We?re going to stop developing our strategy as a document and will post it in a new Knowledge Sharing section on this website. We hope that you?ll take a look and provide us with feedback and suggestions. And, as always, we encourage you to use what we?ve created and build on it.

Stay tuned, we?ll let you know when we launch the Knowledge Sharing section.

?

communications & knowledge sharing, open research

About the author

Christine Prefontaine

Christine facilitates the Global Impact Study's knowledge sharing and communications efforts. With 10 years of international development experience, she has worked on ICTD, health, governance, and economic growth projects ? helping them tell their story, improve collaboration, and build community. Christine writes about social technology and things open, delicious, and participatory at Facilitating Change, dabbles in a remix publishing experiment called Artefatica, and is involved in the coworking movement. Prior to working with TASCHA, she worked for Canada?s International Development Research Centre, the University of Maryland, and Deloitte's Emerging Markets Group. Christine has an MA in Public Communication from American University.

Contact the author

Source: http://www.globalimpactstudy.org/2011/10/communications-and-knowledge-sharing-strategy/

clemency us supreme court cameron todd willingham death row naacp cheryl cole x factor forgetting sarah marshall