Last week I was in KL with my colleague Charlotte, Dr Mangstl Director of FAO’s Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division, and about 1700 other great people dedicated to KM/IM/IT for development.The meeting brought together all levels and focuses in development, or as the program said, GK3 sought to explore issues of emerging people, emerging markets, emerging technologies, and emerging solutions.
My congratulations to GKP and all those involved in organizing what came together as one of my “top 10” events for this year. The conference was well organized, dynamic and diverse, full of people with enthusiasm and a will to get things done.
Some conference highlights for me were:
- the e-Agriculture forum (of course!)
- catching up with the "new generation" who make up Thai RuralNet and similar organizations - they give me hope for the future (yes, I am getting older myself…)
- meeting so many great people from industry, governments, NGOs, CSOs and other organizations that share a vision
- playing with a OLPC laptop and learning more about the potential this offers
- the infectious enthusiasm of the GKP staff that really made this event so great
- the GKP 10 year anniversary party!
- many more things, but this list has to pause somewhere…
There were many new friendships made and networks established and expanded. So many good ideas came up I think 2008 is going to be a very busy year! Stay tuned for more about what develops here :-)
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