The session will explore the role of leadership in leveraging knowledge and learning tools to introduce or sustain organizational change.  Taking  the experience of the World Bank – where knowledge management and communities of practice have been used to mobilize radically new ways of working and innovating – as a conversation starter, facilitator and author, Dr. Monika Weber-Fahr will engage with and interview her guests.   Together they will explore and debate the both the practical and the conceptual side of opportunities and hurdles emerging when an organization takes the knowledge domain as the entry-point to introduce, sustain or complete a change process. 

Join us for a special “Learn KM with Us” session with guest speakers who will share the story of how knowledge management and communities of practice have been used at the World Bank to introduce a radically new way of working and innovating.

The speakers are a former World Bank Senior Director, a former World Bank Director and former CEO Executive Secretary of the Global Water Partnership (GWP), and a former World Bank knowledge and learning lead. ⁠

Here you can find more about them and the book “⁠Communities of Practice at the World Bank,” where the whole story is captured.

This is a great opportunity to invite your manager(s) to hear about the value of KM from other managers!

Thanks to all of you who joined the Cultivating Communities of Practice session, as part of the FITO Networks Festival with Dr. Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Philip Karp, and Dr. Monika Weber-Fahr, authors and editors of the recently launched book Communities of Practice at the World Bank. We would like to thank them for generously sharing their rich experiences and lessons, as well as to the KM4Dev community for co-hosting with us, and to the FITO Network for welcoming us to their Networks festival!

Session resources:

🗂️ Collective harvest: You can find the collective harvest with various nuggets and lessons in this Google doc
🎬 Session Recording: Watch the session recording, including the recording of the two “fireside chat breakouts” with Ede and Phil!
🎤 Virtual Interview with Ede: Watch this follow up conversation with Ede in which he answers questions that we did not have time to go through during the session.

This session was hosted by the Community Builders Community of Practice, a global network of professionals who work in the design or management of Communities of Practice in the international development, peacebuilding, and humanitarian sectors. You can learn more and join us through this form. We also invite you to engage with us on LinkedIn and YouTube.

A 30 Minute live Video-Blog in the form of an Ignite Talk and a short interview with Barbara Bitondo, host of the “KBreak” series at the World Bank Group on March 6 2024 at 9:30 EST

In mobilizing interest for the formal book launch at the World Bank, one of our editors – Monika Weber-Fahr – was interviewed by Barbara Bitondo, host of the “KBreak” series. The Ignite Talk and Interview targeted knowledge workers from KM+L, IM & Comms Spaces and discussed HOW to use KM to improve operational client services; WHAT to pick from the KM “software” menu – e.g., communities, culture, & collaboration across internal silos – to create value and joy, and what leaders – at any level – should KNOW about KM tools & what these tools can do for staff development and growth.

Click to see the presentation. The recording will be added shortly.

Book presentation to the Middle East and North Africa Sustainable Development Team at the World Bank

In our first dissemination event for the Communities of Practice at the World Bank book, we had a seminar on February 1, 2024, with the Sustainable Development team of the World Bank working in the Middle East and North Africa region. This team has started a new set of communities of practice to tackle some of the most difficult sustainability challenges in the region. They are looking to break silos across the technical disciplines they cover: water, agriculture, cities, environment, and social development.

Click to view and watch our presentation and recording.

We want to invite you to two events at the World Bank related to our book.

The first one will be a general book launch on March 7, 10 AM-11:30 AM EST in hybrid format (connection information below and in person at the WBG Library, room MC C3-214). Qimiao Fan, Director of Strategy and Corporate Initiatives at the Sr. MD for Development and Policy Office, will give opening remarks. Please feel free to share the information to your colleagues and contacts.

The second event will take place at the same location in the afternoon (March 7, 3:30PM – 5:00PM EST) and it is more geared towards a practical discussion on KM tools and approaches for building communities, driving innovation, and mobilizing in-country institutions to share their experiences.