21 - 24 September 2005, Bonn, Germany


Timeline:
  • Abstract submission:
    31 March 2005 (closed)
  • Paper submission:
    30 June 2005
  • (closed)
  • Poster submission:
    30 June 2005
  • (closed)
  • General Conference:
    21 - 24 September 2005

Conference host:
  • DIE
  • EADI
Media partner:
  • Deutsche Welle
  • Inter Press Service

Information Management Working Group

"Secure in the knowledge?": Managing information for development. Practical approaches to delivering and accessing information on human security issues.


Thursday 22nd September

14:30 - 16:30
Session 1 . Information Management approaches
  • Acquisition, aggregation and dissemination of information, Rutger Engelhardt, Contactivity, The Netherlands
  • Global management of Intellectual Property: a capacity divide?, Paul Engel, ECDPM, The Netherlands
  • Coherence in Agricultural Information Systems for Development Steve Katz, t.b.c, FAO/DFID
  • Online learning and the information manager - Dejan Dincic, Diplo Foundation, Switzerland
17:00 - 19:00
Session 2 . Services in practice
  • Workshop exchange on strategies for information service provision. Convened by Geoff Barnard IDS, Sussex, UK
  • Project system for food security WISARD,Koen Beelen, IAC Wageningen
  • The library, subject pages, and the CD project, Martina Gernet, BLDS, United Kingdom
  • The iManagement online community, Sarah Cummings, KIT, The Netherlands



Friday 23rd September
14:30 - 16:30
Session 3 . Workspace
  • Emerging Issues in Information and Knowledge Management and International Development: provisional proposals for a collaborative research and development programme, Mike Powel, United Kingdom
  • Working Group Sessions
  • Feedback and Summary



Saturday 24th September
11:15 - 12:45
Session 4 . Project proposals Business meeting
The conference is an anniversary of 30 years of EADI and the IMWG has a long history in this respect. As a result of a several threads of activity in the working group there are two project proposals for consideration. Also the business meeting is an opportunity to discuss the operation of the working group.


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Tel: (+49) 228 261 81 01; Fax: (+49) 228 261 81 03
Email: gc2005@eadi.org
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