Knowledge Sharing To Strengthen Communities and Networks

Mozilla Festival Sessions
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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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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)