Information Management for Development Organisations

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Oxfam, 2003 - 294 pagina's
If information flows well between and within organizations, it empowers people by enabling them to make evidence-based choices; it promotes efficiency; and it enables creativity. Information does not flow well by chance, the process needs to be managed - by everyone concerned. This book introduces tools to analyze how information is used in an organization. It discusses both strategic and practical options for improvements, in the context of the broader information-related changes and debates currently taking place in the world.

This edition covers the major developments in these external debates since the first edition was published in 1998. The aim remains the same: to strengthen the effectiveness of development organizations and their interaction with the communities which they exist to serve. Discussions of knowledge management, capacity building, institutional learning, evaluation and impact assessment, research, information products, and evidence-based work have been added to this edition or considerably extended, together with a number of new case studies.

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Pagina 43 - Knowledge is a fluid mix of framed experience, values, contextual information, and expert insight that provides a framework for evaluating and incorporating new experiences and information.
Pagina ii - ... and the general public, as part of its programme of advocacy, education, and communications. Oxfam GB is a member of Oxfam International, a confederation of 12 agencies of diverse cultures and languages, which share a commitment to working for an end to injustice and poverty - both in long-term development work and at times of crisis. www.oxfam.org.uk...
Pagina 268 - In addition, and especially in the four years since the first edition of this book was written, there has been a deluge of material on the 'digital divide', ICT and development, and knowledge management and development.
Pagina 164 - The discovery of pulsars is [18]: the best example of 'serendipity' defined as the faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident...
Pagina 261 - The Struggles Continue: Evolving Land Policy and Tenure Reforms in Africa - Recent Policy and Implementation Process
Pagina 31 - ... emergence of a global economy has led to a greater variety of goods and services being available to more and more people, processes that have also contributed to an ever-greater interdependence among groups and societies. On the fragmenting side, the globalization of national economies has also served to widen the gap between rich and poor both within and between countries. It has also highlighted the role of transnational corporations, thereby generating conditions for a wide variety of fragmegrative...
Pagina vii - Preface In the four years since the first edition of this book was published, the importance accorded to knowledge and to information and communications technology (ICT) as drivers of the world economy and key factors in development has accelerated apace. Terms like 'the digital divide...
Pagina 90 - Its relation to purpose means that it must be fit for the purpose for which it will be used.
Pagina viii - In this edition, the content has been expanded significantly to consider the information-based components of many activities in which development organisations engage.
Pagina 41 - Sometimes qualitative information can be expressed in quantitative terms: for example, 60 per cent (quantitative) of women in the village felt (qualitative) that the wells had helped them.

Over de auteur (2003)

Mike Powell has worked on rural health programmes and emergency programme management in Latin America and Africa.

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