Opening Session of the Knowledge and Change Dialogue

09.45 - 11.00 29th of September

Tags: Knowledge Platform

Knowledge and Change two very powerful words that can mean a variety of things, for instance; changing what you know or knowing what you change or changing what you change or knowing what you know or changing the knowledge that you know. With the Knowledge and Change Dialogue we would like to contribute to the debate on knowledge and change by sharing and discussing some of the emerging insights from our experiences. On the 29^th of September the Knowledge and Change Dialogue will be opened by a word of welcome from Manuela Monteiro, followed by a short video and an introduction of Micheal Edwards

Manuela Monteiro is since 2002 Executive director of the Dutch development organisation Hivos, Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation. She is also member of the board of WOTRO (the science division within NWO which supports scientific research on development issues), member of the South-North Commission of the Dutch Labour Party, member of the Taskforce Biodiversity and vice-president of Partos (platform for Dutch civil society organisations in the international development cooperation sector). She was born in Portugal, studied English and German in Lisbon and graduated in non-western sociology at the Free University of Amsterdam.

The short video Knowledge & Change is made by Anne, Berthe and Stef, three young moviemakers, talented video bloggers and citizen journalists from Kirgizia, Kenya and Nicaragua. They will explore the impacts and politics of knowledge on the ground together with you. And try to answer what it means when there is a lack of information, when you change the dynamics of information by crowd sourcing it and give people a voice or when a country is dominated with coloured information.

Michael Edwards will give the opening address. Michael Edwards is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading authorities on civil society, philanthropy, and social change. For the past thirty years, he has worked to strengthen the contributions of ordinary citizens to their communities as a grant giver, writer, advocate, organiser, and activist across five continents, and has lived and worked in Zambia, Malawi, Colombia, India, the UK, and the United States.

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