1. Knowledge Centre Platform
Purpose, expectations and next steps

2. Plan of Knowledge Centre – as of July & now
A closed castle or an open interaction?
A Regional Center of Excellence is
to build capacity in public authorities in their dealings with IFIs in preparation, procurement and implementation of infrastructure projects, notably through public-private partnership (PPP).
It was decided to create a Knowledge Centre Platform
which is a virtual online Centre with
strong content facilities and
strong communication facilities
This brings a number of advantages!

3. Our Knowledge Centre Platform
Has chances and risks
CHANCES:
Spatially independent
Political independence
Accessible more easily even without a travel, at any time
Informal access will be possible
Time-efficient
Independence of financing of office infrastructure
Can be more easily handed over to another institutional carrier
RISKS:
after a first peak of downloading, it might remain silent due to lack of interest – a stillborn child
CA representatives are still hesitating to provide to provide their views
Solution: we foresee a stepwise structure of growing attractiveness to participate

4. The scope of work to do
Terms of Reference (ToR)
The Knowledge Centre will be a specifically designed web portal that puts together and incorporates relevant content from a number of available systems and servers.
Functionalities which may arise in the future must be foreseen.
The following IT functionalities are needed:
Content management system, allowing to be easily filled & maintained by Wecoop2
Accounts for project members and CA project partners, to be managed by Wecoop2
Public sections of the website and account-related internal sections of the website
Communication functions such as discussion forum manageable by Wecoop2.

5. Communication on websites
2 decades of experiences …
Experiences show that
websites may lead to enhanced group formation among spatially distributed persons,
if (and this is an important criterion)
the group meets face-to-face sufficiently often to build trust and partnership on the personal level – as is done among all humans
the group processes occurring online are managed.
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6. Our anticipated communication …
… On the web platform may have 2 forms:
“Regional cooperation”
type
communication
“Bankomat” type
communication
We will start with “download only”
true dialogue & interaction will increase
reflection (of project proposals) will come at the end, if successful.

7. Some “wireframes” (= mockup, first sketch)
Of the main page:
2 languages: ru & en
Login option
About page
Most consulted documents
Content area
Communication area

8. Project map type proposal
Georeferencing of projects, with filters:

9. Project & IFI description proposal
+ communication facilities for dialogue during project development

10. Anatoly Pichugin & Aida Yassine & Gilbert Ahamer
Your WECOOP2 team
Anatoly Pichugin & Aida Yassine & Gilbert Ahamer
will be pleased about our joint discussion
@wecoop2.eu