1. 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

2. 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

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

4. 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

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

6. 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

7. Time to enter a new plane of thought...

9. Have I missed anything? Any further thoughts?

10. 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

11. Go back to that other plane of thought...

12. 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.

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

15. 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

16. 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

17. What say you?

18. 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

19. 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

20. Have I missed anything? Any further thoughts?

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

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

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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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 emails archived back to a central point for later reference

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

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

31. Do we use wiki-like structure?

32. Do we use google groups structure?

33. Do we aim to do the “book”?

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

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

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

37. The most pressing issue of the day New CoP logos

38. Thanks for coming