Knowledge Based Development Community (KBD Community)

I hosted a session called "Future Collaboration of the KBD Community" as part of the open space event entitled "Designing the Global KBD Agenda" at the the Global Knowledge Based Development Week. We discussed how collaboration of the KBD Community in the physical space could be supported in the virtual space. We came up with three action items:

1. We set up the KBD Mailing List on google groups that is open to everyone interested in KBD. You can join the mailing list by sending an email to "kbd-community-subscribe(at)googlegroups.com" (note: replace "(at)" by "@" when sending the email). Please do that until 2007/11/02 (november 2nd). After joining please send a short email to the mailing list ("kbd(at)googlegroups.com") explaining what your background and your interests in KBD are. 
2. We will set up a KBD Wiki and send an invitation to the mailing list at 2007/11/02. There are two options:
   1. we will ask the KM4Dev (Knowledge Management for Development) Community if we could join forces and open a section in their KM4Dev Wiki (remark: in case you don´t know the KM4Dev Journal have a look!).
   2. If this will not work we will open a wiki at wikispaces.com.
3. For having transparency about KBD Events in different knowledge places, knowledge streets, knowledge neighborhoods, knowledge villages, knowledge cities, knowledge regions and knowledge nations, every member of the KBD Community should publish all related events in the KM group on upcoming.org.

Other ideas we had in the session but decided to not to implement them in the first phase were:

• Start the group weblog KBD Weblog on blogger.com an invite all community members to publish their ideas, activites etc. there. The Weblog should become the public space for the KBD Community.
• Using Yellow Paging and Social Networking to keep the KBD Community together (Facebook? LinkedIn? XING?).
• Collecting high quality KBD Weblinks using del.icio.us as a social bookmarking service.

If you have any questions or problems or ideas or anything else just send an email to "simon.dueckert (at) cogneon.de". If anyone of you is interested in the weblogs I wrote during the Global Knowledge Based Development Week they are all filed under the tag global-kbd-week-2007.