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Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon: Position Papers
The Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon conference co-organised by Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society is being held from 6 to 8 December at the Hague Museum for Communication. The position papers are now available online.
Call for short-term research projects on global governance
The point of departure for the small grants of 2011 is the rush for acquiring land and natural resources that appears to accelerate in the global South, and how land governance can contribute to maximizing opportunities for sustainable development. Land governance is about managing and reconciling, competing interests, claims over land or natural resources. Land governance related policy choices and processes needs to strike a balance between protecting rights and promoting the most producti...
Climate Smart Development in the South
The next few years will be crucial for determining the policy response to climate change. Whereas mitigation of climate change and adaptation to its consequences have become important issues in the international policy arena, they have yet to become major policy issues within most developing countries, especially amongst the LDCs – countries that are actually amongst the most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. Until now, just a few countries have formulated adaptation progra...Knowledge & Change Spotlight: Launch Development
Development vol 53 no 3 on sustaining local economies was launched at the Hivos dialogue ‘Knowledge & Change, Theory and practice of development dilemmas’ in The Hague, 29 September 2010. The launch was one of two parallel events on the first day. At the launch Hivos programme coordinator Josine Stremmelaar, journal author Alec Balasescu, Editor of Development Wendy Harcourt and Development Analyst and Editorial Board Member of the Development Journal Shobha Raghuram laid out some of the...
Knowledge & Change Spotlight: Gender, knowledge and change
When social change movements of all kinds are under attack, progressives need to build coalitions and to talk to one another as never before. Feminist models and methodologies can enrich every social change movement. A good question is worth its weight in answers. Good questions provide a framework to explore issues. Good questions determine answers.
Knowledge & Change Spotlight: Video
For the Knowledge and Change Dialogue correspondents of Metropolis TV explore with you the impacts and politics of knowledge on the ground. What does it mean when a country is dominated by coloured information? What does it mean when you change the dynamics of information by crowd sourcing it and giving people a voice? See the video here.
Knowledge and Change Dialogue: Speech Michael Edwards
Michael Edwards spoke about Know-How’, ‘Know-What’ in his lecture entitled ‘Know-How’, ‘Know-What’ and the Politics of Knowledge for Development at the internationale dialogue Knowledge & Change: Theory and practice of development. Michael Edwards is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on civil society, philanthropy, and social change. In his speech he addressed particularly the politics of knowledge, which determine how thinking is translated into action of variou...
Knowledge and Change Dialogue: Rumble in cyberspace: perspectives on civic engagement through the Internet
Today’s session on civic engagement through the Internet touched on three important concepts for the Dialogue: knowledge, communication and social change. Around these concepts, presentations sparked off a debate on the use of Internet for today’s civil society movement.
Knowledge and Change Dialogue: Which change agents really matter?
Who bring about real change? New actors? Old actors? Or perhaps old actors that are just recently recognized as “actors”? These were some of the questions that have been asked to several participants on the second day of the Knowledge and Change conference.