1. capacity4dev
DEVCO Knowledge sharing and collaboration for Staff and development practitioners
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2. 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

4. 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)

6. Why – strategic objectives
Consolidate knowledge and build Institutional Memory: high staff turnaround, short term contracts, increasingly outsourcing, mainly knowledge exchanged through
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

7. Capacity4dev - An active community
Professionals from all over the world: staff (EC/EEAS), from Private Cos, CSOs, Government, Donors
450+ Articles / Knowledge pieces
Posts in 380+ Groups & 50+ Projects
June 2015 – June 2016 : page views from 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

8. New capacity4dev - Coming soon !

9. 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

10. 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

11. New capacity4dev - Future
FUTURE Work
ECAS for users behind the firewall
Multilingual interface (EN, FR, ES) / explore – 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