Eldis 20th Anniversary Workshop: Learning from 20 years of digital knowledge sharing for global development

Thursday 15th September

The first day will be in seminar format with invited keynote speakers and panel sessions. The agenda will be framed around the broad question “What have we learned from 20 years of online knowledge sharing for global development and what does this tell us about the future?” See below for a more detailed outline of the topics.

An informal networking event (including dinner) and celebration of the Eldis 20th Anniversary will be held on the evening of the first day.

Friday 16th September

The second day will be facilitated in an “unconference” style format allowing participants to identify and explore in more depth some of the issues and opportunities that have emerged from discussions on the first day. The programme will be finalised during the workshop itself but if you have ideas for sessions you would like to run then please get in touch.

Parallel events

As part of the workshop we are also very pleased to be hosting the annual meeting of the EADI Information Managers Working Group and the partners meeting for DGroups. Both will be running sessions at the event that are open to any workshop participants who would like to find out more about these networks.

DGroups will also be holding their business meeting at IDS in advance of the workshop on Wednesday 14th September and will host an informal pre-workshop gathering for everyone arriving on Wednesday- details to follow.

A parallel “Share Fair” giving participants the opportunity to showcase their own work will run concurrently across both days of the workshop. If you have print materials, posters  or multimedia content that you would like to display as part of the Fair then please get in touch for more information.