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The Knowledge Programme has a worldwide outreach. Different thematic programmes have different regional foci. Please find below a short description of activities per region. Hivos works in more countries, for all Hivos activities see www.hivos.nl

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Exporting Censorship and Surveillance Technology

Western companies turn a healthy profit by exporting their surveillance technologies and equipment to repressive regimes. This is what Ben Wagner concludes in the Hivos-commissioned report “Exporting Censorship and Surveillance Technology”.Wagner interviewed dozens of people from Europe and North Africa and found that governments there have relied heavily on Western censorship technologies in an attempt to quell the civil unrest during the Arab Spring. Earlier reports had already established...

Can Knowledge Trigger Change?

This Briefing Note argues that there is an acute and pressing need for new perspectives and knowledge on the changing terrain and dynamics of development and social change. It contributes to the debate on knowledge and change by sharing and discussing the insights emerging from Hivos’ experiences. Furthermore, it positions Hivos’ knowledge endeavours in the aid and knowledge for development  discourse, drawing on a mix of Hivos practice, policy and Knowledge Programme research.

Like a Bridge over Troubled Waters

Author: Wenny Ho
Publisher: Hivos and IKM Emergent
Date: 2011
In the Think Piece LIKE A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS: Dialogues of policy, practitioner and academic knowledges the author Wenny Ho deals with Cross-domain Knowledge Integration (KI) in International Development Cooperation (IDC). KI is understood as processes of knowledge co-creation linking domains particularly those of policy-making, science and practitioners.

Like a Bridge over Troubled Waters

In the Think Piece LIKE A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS: Dialogues of policy, practitioner and academic knowledges the author Wenny Ho deals with Cross-domain Knowledge Integration (KI) in International Development Cooperation (IDC). KI is understood as processes of knowledge co-creation linking domains particularly those of policy-making, science and practitioners.

'Power, Knowledge and Pluralism' with Robert Chambers (IDS)

On Monday January 23, Robert Chambers, world renowned international  development scholar and research associate at IDS, discusses how power, professionalism, funding, methodologies and mindsets, influence and can distort and constrain the creation of knowledge.
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The Netherlands, Knowledge Management
Date: 23 January : Location: Centraal Museum, Agnietenstraat 3, Utrecht

New Donors – New Investments – New Development?

How do new donor relations and emerging economies influence the notion of development? What are the geopolitical implications of the new South-South and South-North relations? And, how to deal with these new realities in a post MDG world, do we need new development goals? These questions serve as the starting point of this year's Knowledge for Development Conference on January 27, organised by IDS, Hivos, FNV International, IOB, SID and LANDac. 
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The Netherlands
Date: 27 January : Location: Academiegebouw, Utrecht, The Netherlands

When Civics go Governance

Author: Ria Brouwers
Publisher: ISS/Hivos
Date: May 2011
In ‘When Civics go governance’ Ria Brouwers analyses the stormy ascent of African NGOs in the field of good governance. Tracing the tracks of the NGO-boom in Africa, Brouwers brings together key academic writings with ISS led field on NGO interventions in Zambia, Uganda, Kenia and Tanzania conducted under the banner of the Hivos/ISS Civil Society Building Knowledge Programme.

Social Movements and Citizenship in Central America: The women’s movement and the struggle for their rights in Nicaragua

Author: Elvira Cuadra & Juana Jimenez
Publisher: Centro de investigaciones de la Communicacion (CINCO), Nicaragua
Date: July 2010
The belligerence with which the women’s movement has defended its rights during the last ten years has made it to stand out as one of the main political actors of the country. Its level of development and articulation permitted the realization of systematic actions of denunciation, demands and mobilization on behalf of women’s rights, in particular, sexual and civil rights all over Nicaragua’s territory. Specially important has been the struggle developed during the last three years in order...

Unpacking Digital Natives from their Shiny Packaging

In this article, the writer supports that China, despite having a plethora of hacker talents, does not conform to the typical paradigm of liberal, usually anti-government, group of digital natives. She explains that the so-called “red hackers” are working hand-in-hand with the dominant ideology, fighting against the enemy abroad while hunting down the enemy within who disrupts the ‘harmony’ (of the nation). Focusing on China’s digital culture, Tsou demonstrates that digital natives, despite...

The State of the Art on Knowledge Integration across Boundaries

Together with some 20 experts (scientists and practitioners from different backgrounds and regions) we aim to reinvigorate thinking about knowledge integration in international development.
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The Netherlands
Date: 23 January until 24 January 2012 Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands
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