mozfest
(Mozilla Festival)
October 14, 2019, 5:18pm
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This session is facilitated by Dirk Slater
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About this session
Participants will share their challenges and experiences in enabling knowledge sharing and collective impact. We will then look at examples of materials, resources and tools, co-created within networks and communities that have supported learning and capacity building. We will then create a list of best practices for supporting this work.
Goals of this session
To create best practices for enabling knowledge sharing that supports networks and communities.
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FabRider
(Dirk Slater)
October 26, 2019, 11:20am
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Thanks for a great session everyone. Here’s the notes:
Ways we have experience knowledge sharing.
Methods
Learn from experts
Understanding theories
Reviewing documentation / Creating documentation
Case Studies
Learning by doing (practicals)
Hand holding people in experience sharing
Observing
Community facilitator makes connections / sees opportunity
Self (personal) skill development
Leveraging Skills in the community
Relaxed conversations within communities.
Communications
Online publications
Informal messaging groups (w/ friends)
Regular group calls
Community Radio
Interactions with people from diverse backgrounds
Multi-point engagement on a new topic
Listen to others (online or personally)
Events
Hackathon with gov agencies and community orgas
A network event over dinner
IRL Informational event\
Grassroots communities events, eg. Meet-up groups for certain tech skills
At a presentation on race and tech
Best Practices to support knowledge sharing
Provide sustainability and structure
Support champions, people who are invested
Have Routine Comms
Make sure your content is local and relevant.
Co-create knowledge resources and assets
Use clustering to gather relevant people together
Know your community
Understand Barriers to Participation
Make the most out of events to generate trust
Have governance so people can understand processes and how to contribute and then what happens to their contributions
Make the most out of events, ensure you are provided lots of ways for people to interact with each other
Take people out of their comfort zones (in a good way)