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font-family:Arial'>The following may be of interest.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Steve</span></font></i></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>___________________________________</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Steve Walker</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Senior Lecturer, People & Technology Group</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Innovation North, </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Leeds</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Metropolitan</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>University</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Call for Papers</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>KM4Dev Journal Vol. 3,
Issue 1, June 2007</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>?Stewarding Technologies for
Collaboration, </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Community</span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Building</span></font><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
& </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Knowledge Sharing in
Development?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The ?Knowledge Management
for Development Journal? (KM4D Journal) is </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>an open access,
peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>management in development ? for
and by development practitioners and </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>researchers. The journal is
closely related to the KM4dev community </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>of practice, and can be read
and downloaded at: <a href="www.km4dev.org/journal">www.km4dev.org/journal</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Vol. 3, Issue 1, to be
published in June 2007, will focus on </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>innovative practices and
uses of ?technologies for knowledge </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>sharing?. This focus comes
on the wave of new web based tools and </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>processes supporting
knowledge sharing, knowledge management and </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>organizational learning that
have emerged. Sometimes called "Web 2.0" </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>technologies, these tools
allow people to collaborate over time and </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>distance in both new ways
and in new networked forms. It builds on </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>previous issues on the
importance of networks, working across </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>boundaries and even
sustainability.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Guest editors are comprised
of Nancy White, Beth Kanter, Beverly </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Trayner, Partha Sarker and
Brenda Zulu, in combination with Chief </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Editor, Lucie Lamoureux.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Rationale International
development has always had to work across </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>time and distance. With the
increased access to internet connected </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>computers and the
development of a wider range of web based </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>collaboration technologies,
sometimes called "social software," a new </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>practice is emerging of
stewarding technology for knowledge sharing, </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>knowledge management,
collaboration and learning. By stewarding, we </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>mean paying attention not
just to the technology, but how it usefully </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>applied by groups. Groups
from within, across and between </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>organizations can now work
together every day without being in the </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>same location. Collaborative
networks which were never possible due </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>to geographic limitations
are now sharing knowledge, collecting data </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>and doing team work.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The emergence and
application of tools such as blogs, wikis, tagging, </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>social search, web based
content and learning management systems, pod </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>and vodcasting intersect
with various forms of collaboration such as </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>distributed communities of
practice, networks, and online communities.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Attention to the useful
stewarding of technology is particularly </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>important. The market
changes rapidly. The accessibilty of the tools </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>means many people are
experimenting in diverse way. We are learning </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>new processes and practices
of technology in use and understanding </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>the implications of
technology on group dynamics. Sharing stories and </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>knowledge in terms of how
this technology is being stewarded is a </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>critical piece of increasing
both access to successful practices and </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>increased success in
collaboration. In this issue we hope to "shine a </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>light" on technology
stewardship for knowledge sharing and </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>collaboration in
development.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>This issue</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>It is easy to focus on the
technologies. They hype around "Web 2.0" </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>and the crowded market of
technology providers can make it easy to be </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>both distracted and
overwhelmed by the tools. But technologies alone </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>don't create change or
achieve goals. It is the people and practices </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>using the tools that matter.
This issue of the KM4Dev Journal will </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>address the question of how how
the international development </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>community is identifying
distributed collaboration opportunities, </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>picking and configuring
technology and developing practices to </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>support the collaboration.
The emphasis will be not just on the </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>technology itself, but the
processes of using technology to </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>collaborate. What have we
learned about what works, what doesn't work </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>and what is just another
distraction?</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The issue will include
papers from technology stewards and online </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>knowledge sharing
practitioners in the South and North. Of particular </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>interest are recent
experiences with both the the processes of </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>supporting distributed
collaboration and knowledge sharing, and the </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>use of web based tools in
that collaboration.</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>We invite technology
stewards and online knowledge sharing </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>practitioners, NGOs,
resource centres, research institutes, think </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>tanks, bilateral and
multilateral development agencies and other </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>organizations working in the
context of development cooperation to </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>propose papers covering
topics such as:</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> * Main challenges for
distributed knowledge sharing and </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>collaboration</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> * Preconditions, entry
points and strategies for using web based </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>technologies for
collaboration and KS</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> * Experience gained in
supporting adoption of distributed tools </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>and processes for
collaboration and KS (case studies featuring </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Dgroups experiences are
especially welcome)</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> * Specific approaches
adopting web based collaboration technologies</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> * Effective capacity
building practices ensuring the long-term </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>viability of distributed
collaboration and KS</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> * Considerations on how
to balance web based collaboration and </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>KS with more traditional F2F
approaches, including issues of </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>inclusion or exclusion with
both approaches</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> * Specific issues of
development cooperation to be considered in </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>capacity building for
distributed collaboration and KS such as </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>internet access, cost of
technology infrastructure, intercultural </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>communication, impact of
technology on power, gender, or learning </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>modalities</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> * Reflections on
capacity building for South-South distributed </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>collaboration and KS</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> * Future agenda for the
stewarding of technology for </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>collaboration and KS</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>About the team of guest
editors</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Nancy White is an
independent consultant from the </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>United States</span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
and a </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>KM4D Journal Editorial Board
Member.</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Beth Kanter is an
independent consultant from the </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>United States</span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Bev Trayner is an
independent consultant from </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Portugal</span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>.</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Partha Sarker is a
Researcher with Telecentre.org (</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Canada</span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>)
and Co- </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>founder of Bytes for All (</span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>India</span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>).</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Brenda Zulu is a Zambian
freelance journalist and OneWorld Africa </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>(OWA) volunteer editor.</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Proposed deadlines</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Submission deadline for the
title and </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>abstract
</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>28 February 2007</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Acceptance of paper </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>proposal
</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>15 March 2007</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Submission of </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>paper
15 </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>April 2007</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Peer-review </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>completed
</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>15 May 2007</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Author revision completed
and final version of paper submitted 31 </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>May 2007</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
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