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Piers Bocock recounts a recent MDLP presentation at the Henley Forum. (Crossposted from the Acute Incite site)

A little more than two years ago, a small group of knowledge management (KM) and organizational learning (OL) leaders and practitioners in some of the world’s most influential sponsors of international development, met in a generously windowed conference room in Stockholm. 

Working in the knowledge management and organizational learning spheres of international development can be tremendously daunting because there is so much at stake. The same mistakes are repeated over and again when we fail to learn, rendering development initiatives less effective, or worse, harmful. All of this at considerable cost to the poor and vulnerable people we are meant to serve.

During a recent conversation amongt MDLP members, it became evident that for those who are responsible for helping development organizations maximize the ways in which they capture, share, synthesize and use data, information and knowledge, this dramatic shift in our operating context could be viewed from two very different perspectives: “a perfect storm,” or “the moment to shine.”