Who am I? I am Barry (hear me roar) Used to be in EWB Cardiff, did the whole branch president thing etc. Got a Vodafone Foundation World of Difference Award to work full time for 2 months for a charity of my choice. Can you guess which one I chose? 6 weeks down, 3 weeks remaining

What have I been doing? Knowledge Management: Looking at how the 6 Communities of Practice are disseminated throughout each of the Programme Areas Introducing two new Communities based on Healthcare and Mobility Technologies, and Food and Agriculture

What are 6 CoP? Water and Sanitation Energy Habitat ICT Industry Transport

What did I find when I arrived? They weren’t used for much The general enthusiasm was there but technical problems surrounding the organisation and definition of the Communities impeded things Communities = Groups of people. There were none

How could they be used? Organise ourselves Knowledge sharing – Internally and externally Website structure Quality control on placements, research, training Organise contacts etc. Fundraising

Chief Executive Officer Placements Co-ord. Training Co-ord. Research Co-ord. Bursaries Co-ord. Outreach Co-ord. Education Co-ord. Water Co-ord. Energy Co-ord. Habitat Co-ord. ICT Co-ord. Transport Co-ord. Industry Co-ord. HMT Co-ord. Food & Agriculture Co-ord. Placements Team Training Team Research Team Bursaries Team Outreach Team Education Team

Time to enter a new plane of thought...

Have I missed anything? Any further thoughts?

Healthcare and Mobility Technologies Why? – It’s a neglected area in international development – Leads to social exclusion – There are numerous organisations that could benefit from an engineering input

Go back to that other plane of thought...

HMT Workshop Saturday June 5 Imperial College. Tell all your friends Jump-start session to enable collaborations between ourselves and other groups/organisations – Placements, research, training etc.

We are faced with a series of options Option 1: Alter the organisational structure of EWB-UK Thematically as opposed to programmatically

Chief Executive Officer Placements Co-ord. Training Co-ord. Research Co-ord. Bursaries Co-ord. Outreach Co-ord. Education Co-ord. Water Co-ord. Energy Co-ord. Habitat Co-ord. ICT Co-ord. Transport Co-ord. Industry Co-ord. HMT Co-ord. Food & Agriculture Co-ord. Placements Team Training Team Research Team Bursaries Team Outreach Team Education Team Current Structure

Chief Executive Officer Placements Co-ord. Training Co-ord. Research Co-ord. Bursaries Co-ord. Outreach Co-ord. Education Co-ord. Water Co-ord. Energy Co-ord. Habitat Co-ord. ICT Co-ord. Transport Co-ord. Industry Co-ord. HMT Co-ord. Food & Agriculture Co-ord. Alternative Structure Water Team Energy Team Habitat Team Information and Communications Technology Team Transport Team Industry Team Healthcare and Mobility Team Food and Agriculture Team

What say you?

Case Study: ISF France Each branch is independent which takes care of their own programmes ISF France is a federation which provides guidance to the branches This guidance and resulting framework is in the form of Communities of Practice – Water; Energy; Agriculture; Engineering citizen

Branch Projects Community of Practice structure would be beneficial to EWB-UK branch projects which are happening overseas Hybrid structure, cos everyone loves the word hybrid, has benefits

Have I missed anything? Any further thoughts?

Option 2 Annual Review – Arranged programmatically? – Or thematically?

What now? Presuming that you all booed and hissed at everything suggested so far, here is what I propose...

Community of Practice Co-ordinators Co-ordinators or points of contact for each Community of Practice – Preferably 2 per community

What would they do? There needs to be a project or task As a counterpart to “Engineering in Emergencies”, I am proposing that we, as EWB-UK and anybody else that wants in at some point, develop a counter-part “Engineering in International Development”. It will be released under Creative Commons license

Why? Most of the knowledge and experience of EWB-UK is in people’s heads The purpose of this is not to write a book, but to disseminate everything we collectively know It will give the PN something to do – Generally have more experience to impart than time to do actual overseas work

How do we go about it? The Community co-ordinators task is to distil the knowledge within their community Wiki-like structure where anybody can edit, but co-ordinators and any other admins they appoint can approve Google groups under google apps used for entire mailing list to discuss topics – All s archived back to a central point for later reference

Each community can develop organically, and split into sub-communities as necessary – i.e. Energy splits to wind, hydro, stoves etc.

Your thoughts please? Do we go ahead with CoP co-ordinators?

Do we use wiki-like structure?

Do we use google groups structure?

Do we aim to do the “book”?

Everyone should be involved, but should it be spearheaded by the PN? – “Get Creative Campaign”

Challenges Creative Commons licensing current online material Revision control – “LIVE” revision – Minor revisions – Major revisions Food and Agriculture Community

Development/Citizenship CoP?? Micro-enterprise Education and training of partners Participatory processes Security Personal health General cross cutting themes

The most pressing issue of the day New CoP logos

Thanks for coming