Strategy (re)Development
As a librarian and knowledge manager, the "Information Steward" moniker grew out of information organization practices in academic libraries and international development nonprofit work. Examining who I am, what I believe, and my habits in vocational environments, I now recognize a broader scope of my work. The Information
Activity
Knowledge sharing values lived out as habits. How individuals and teams practice knowledge sharing emerges from the values and culture embraced by those individuals. Rules, processes, and expectations succeed or fail based on the energy embodied in the culture. What is the knowledge sharing culture of your team or organization?
Musing
Stewarding information across work departments and teams necessitates links, relationships, visibility, and lines of communication at the highest level of the organization. Consequently, Information Steward co-leads will report directly to the organization's leader (CEO, President, Executive Director). Visible Nexus - narration by author0:00/60.5518131× Given successful
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When two lead together, we, as a team, achieve a multiplier effect. Two co-chiefs multiply0:00/121.4693751× An Information Steward team achieves deeper impact when two co-lead. Why limit senior leadership to a single individual? How might we, as an Information Steward team, reach creative decisions with two co-chiefs
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Your organization may need an Information Steward team. Why would I form an Information Steward team0:00/140.8111871× An Information Steward team coalesces people, information, habits, and focused intended outcomes. The multi-disciplinary, cross-functional team of regular collaborators develop rhythms and create possible solutions to challenging problems or new opportunities.
Knowledge Mobilization
Introduction What could a Knowledge Stewardship team look like? Consider the foundational elements below from which a scenario is then briefly sketched. The new model may only be achieved over the course of a few years through multiple step-wise iterations. Multiple Facets Managing organizational knowledge for improved outcomes is a
Knowledge Mobilization
A reflection on the meanings and nuances of "knowledge management." The punch line: knowledge management (KM) is a mindset and process of collaboratively describing a desired future state of affairs, the required information needed to make decisions towards those desired outcomes, and the ecosystem of practices to collect,
Musing
Key questions that impact how I think and what I pursue in the false dichotomy of work-life (when, in reality, all is connected). * What does success look like? When I offer this up to an individual or a group, the responses are quite telling. People define "success" in
Networks
Scenario: multiple organizations connected through shared goals believing collaboration leads to greater impact on their constituents. These organizations are based in different countries around the globe, speak various languages, employ a range of people, and utilize myriad digital communication tools. Issue: these organizations recognize the importance of clear communication, information
occasional missives
A few thoughts on possible library transformations. Library from the Latin liber, bark. At what point do artificial intelligence and computer algorithms supplant the human editor and curator? Can the machine filter through all available data and select out that which is most appropriate to a user's needs?
As an analytical thinker, I ponder future outcomes in both home and work life, and the intermediate steps to see transformation from the current to the future state of affairs. The analogy I often use is that of directing a water craft from its current location to some desired location,
Humanity United funded a set of projects during my time at iScale on the issue of peace building, particularly around enhancing the network of organizations pursuing common goals related to peace and security.
Canada's international development organization funds research across the spectrum of issues. IDRC has funded the following projects where I have been a member: International Open Data Charter, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, and projects when I worked with iScale, largely on project monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
The Omidyar Network is a philanthropy that invests in both nonprofit and for-profit projects. My work on the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency and the International Open Data Charter received funding from the Omidyar Network.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation supports many grantees on an international scale and has supported several projects of which I have been a part. Projects: * Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency * Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
"The United Nations Foundation links the UN’s work with others around the world, mobilizing the energy and expertise of business and non-governmental organizations to help the UN tackle issues including climate change, global health, peace and security, women's empowerment, poverty eradication, energy access, and U.S.
The goal of the International Open Data Charter is to foster greater coherence and collaboration for the increased adoption and implementation of shared open data principles, standards, and good practices across sectors around the world. The Charter is a set of agreed-upon open data Principles, based on the G8 Open
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data is a global network of governments, NGOs, and businesses working together to strengthen innovative ways that data is used to address the world’s sustainable development efforts. The Global Partnership amplifies current efforts among its Partners and links Partners in new configurations in
With generous support from the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, the Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS (CEPA) focused on overcoming policy and implementation bottlenecks to scaling up prevention of parent-to-child transmission (PPTCT+) and pediatric diagnosis, treatment, and care programs in six focus countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Kenya, Tanzania,
For this project with the Gates Foundation in 2011, a small team from Innovations for Scaling Impact, with me as one of two lead researchers, aided the Foundation’s Global Health measurement, learning, and evaluation (MLE) and Malaria teams to finalize an MLE plan that specifies grant-level sources of data
In 2010, I, as part of Innovations for Scaling Impact, worked with the Packard Foundation on a social network analysis of grantee connections using web crawl techniques. The maps, showing linkages, were then used by Foundation staff in their review of their portfolios.
