capacity4dev DEVCO Knowledge sharing and collaboration for Staff and development practitioners DEVCO 06

What is capacity4dev ? DEVCO / EC’s Knowledge Sharing Platform on International Cooperation and Development First pilot Oct 2009 (Drupal 5) – JRC /ISPRA 2010 Rebuild in Drupal 6 by external contractor - Hosted by DIGIT in 2011 Since 2010 every year new release Sept 2016 delivery of rebuild in Drupal 7

What – the offering Publishing : Articles backed with video – Access to professional Video / journalist Team to help cover your events Collaboration and Knowledge sharing Internal and external : Groupware for the development community: Public, EU, EC or Private groups with: Group wiki, Blog, document library, events, members rooster, group taxonomies, powerful search.. Project Sites : share knowledge on projects / partner's project sites People: Find experts through People section Your profile page, mail notifications, personal recommendations Advanced permissions and administration features Secure hosting (EC Infrastructure)

Why – strategic objectives Consolidate knowledge and build Institutional Memory: high staff turnaround, short term contracts, increasingly outsourcing, mainly knowledge exchanged through email Support Thematic Expertise, Support good practice and innovation exchange / help identify specialists, bridge the silos – horizontal awareness Cross-learning among practitioners from EC, EEAS, MS, Donors, International Organisations, private sector, CSOs, Governments, Academia… Consolidate multiple tools and communities of practice around a common environment: EUWI, EUEI, ROSA Project sites : Capitalise on the huge knowledge and expertise that stems from the implementation of thousands of projects : today stays mostly with the consultants and NGOs implementing our programmes – economies of scale

Capacity4dev - An active community 19000+ Professionals from all over the world: 3500+ staff (EC/EEAS), 15500+ from Private Cos, CSOs, Government, Donors 450+ Articles / Knowledge pieces 33000+ Posts in 380+ Groups & 50+ Projects June 2015 – June 2016 : 700.000+ page views from 130.000+ users in the past 6 months 27 communities of practice / groups started 250 events / workshops shared 500 pictures shared 545 wiki / group pages added 711 Blog posts contributed 1895 documents uploaded  AND 1250 New members joined our community

New capacity4dev - Coming soon !

Key features of the new version >Q3 2016 More intuitive: improved navigation, quick post – post in the wall like Linkedin /Facebook, clean design, better taxonomy Personalised: show contents that is relevant for you Easier to share Knowledge between groups: brake the silos! Improved group functions Rebuilt of project functionality: fully customizable, template fit to each project visual identity, EC branding less "imposing" Mobile responsive design

Key features of the new version >Q3 2016 Create a site wide "Learning" section – Include learning events from across the site + Integrate with Moodle to deliver eLearning Rethink and Rebuilt of project functionality: project knowledge sharing sites, link & sync with corporate systems, fully customizable, template fit to each project visual identity, EC branding less "imposing" Improve Information architecture and the Taxonomies (site-wide, horizontal, strict tagging) – impact on better search

New capacity4dev - Future FUTURE Work ECAS for users behind the firewall Multilingual interface (EN, FR, ES) / explore MT@EC – Machine translation Link to DEVCO core business tool / back-office (OPSYS) Improve content Recommendation / social rating system / build incentives scheme Mail to Web functionality – participate to the discussion from your mail client … Many more