One Knowledge Café Vienna, Austria

20 – 22 January 2008FAO, Rome, Italy

Knowledge “Share Fair”

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Share Fair & the FAO Evaluation

KM : “High Priority” for resource allocation Need for a strategic vision on KM Share Fair is a first step to mainstream

knowledge sharing in FAO and its culture Similar objectives for the Rome food

agencies Concrete cross-agency collaboration

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Share Fair Aims

provide an interactive experience to: share and learn good practices experiment with KS tools and methods create linkages and networks for

collaboration develop ideas to enhance knowledge

sharing within and across organizations

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Participation and Outputs 700 registered, 1000+ attended 112 Sessions, 160 Contributions 400 people in 22 training sessions 70 video interviews 1000+ photos 350 real-time postings 200 people surveyed Cited in the Media

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KS Methods Used For Delivery of Sessions

Peer Assist Chat Show Fish Bowl World Cafe Videos

For Event Outputs Typo3 Content Management System (http://www.sharefair.net/) Blog (http://sharefair2009.blogspot.com/) Social Bookmarks (http://delicious.com/sharefair09) Twitter Feeds (http://twitter.com/sharefair09) Video Feeds (http://sharefair.blip.tv/) Flickr Photos (http://www.flickr.com/groups/sharefair09) FaceBook (

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Knowledge-Share-Fair/89154650252)

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What People Said “Knowledge sharing is the most effective way to learn” “Knowledge sharing connects people that work on the same

problems“ “Sharing is all about collaboration” “Knowledge sharing helps to improve our performance as an

organization” “Knowledge sharing is essential to develop projects that

work“ "Knowledge sharing helps us to get the story from the field“ “Sharing of ideas for improvement will certainly bring

renewal” “Preparing good projects/programmes requires us to take the

time to listen, carefully and intelligently, to all those we work with”

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This is just the beginning at FAO and not the end...

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Emerging Needs from the Fair

Need for informal fora to foster innovation Need for staff training in tools and methods Need to know who is doing what and where Need for a greater degree of collaboration and

working in partnership (to be more effective) between the departments; between headquarters and the decentralized offices; with external stakeholders; between staff

Need to show KS applied in real work on the ground

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Next Steps...

Circulate Share Fair Report Feedback for the IKM Strategy Training courses on KS tools Develop case studies FAO Knowledge Café online sharing

forum

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Next Steps... (continued)

On-going Share Fair events “Thematic” Share Fairs and seminars Focus groups with departments Create a Knowledge inventory of

expertise

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Considerations For Senior Mgmt

1. Encourage staff to explore KS tools and methods in their work and to partake in training courses

2. Identify challenging projects/programmes that could benefit from KS tools and methods

3. Encourage collaborative work in teams, across regions and in partnership with other organizations

4. Consider actively applying KS tools and methods in upcoming meetings and workshops

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Resources Materials from Fair:

90 Seconds Challenge: http://sharefair.blip.tv/ All Tweets about Share Fair:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23sharefair09 Blog: http://sharefair2009.blogspot.com/ Links: http://delicious.com/sharefair09/ Photos: http://www.flickr.com/groups/sharefair09/ Session reports:

http://sharefair2009.blogspot.com/search/label/session%20report

Share Fair Twitter: http://twitter.com/sharefair09/ Slide Share: http://www.slideshare.net/sharefair09 Web site: http://www.sharefair.net/

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Discussion and Questions

Thank you!