GAN-Net Going to Scale
2008 is a year of transformation for GAN-Net, that will result in "GAN-Net V2.0" launch in January, 2008. The transformation builds upon five years of creating clear concepts, building strong relationships and identifying a core strategy, to developing activities that will bring value to GANs and build the field of GANs through significant projects. As part of this transformative year, GAN-Net is reorganizing into three sets of activities:
Read more...
Time for a Global Finance GAN?
A year ago, well before the current global finance crisis, GAN-Net began planning an investigation to asses the potential for developing a GAN focusing upon finance. In August, GAN-Net developed a $165,000 project proposal which received funding from the Ford Foundation for a year-long 2008 project. The central questions: What is the current multi-stakeholder activity in the finance arena? Is there something that GAN-Net can support that will significantly advance that activity?
Read more...
Eigen Becomes Sr. Steward - IT
Tobias Eigen has been familiar to ComCoP participants for over a year, in the role of Co-Lead Steward for the CoP along with Steve Waddell. He is now also Senior Steward - IT on a half-time basis. Tobias is leading the development of GAN-Net's on-line presence and creating and implementing a strategy for GAN-Net staff to use online collaboration and file sharing tools to work as a tightly integrated virtual organization. He comes with an impressive history as founder and executive director of Kabissa, a network of over 1100 African NGOs.
Read more...
Associate Focus: David Bonbright
New funding also allows David Bonbright to participate more actively as Co-Lead Steward (along with Sanjeev) of iCoP. Bonbright is one of the world's leading experts on measuring social change in networks. He is also CEO of Keystone, a London-based citizen organization focused upon enhancing the effectiveness of organizations working in the social change field.
Read more...
ComCoP: Meeting Focuses Upon Strategy Development for Communications
Co-sponsor of the June 2-3 meeting of the Communications Community of Practice, ISEAL Communications Director Lucy Glover, sees strategy development a priority. "Multi-stakeholder networks' communications strategies are quite different than in less complex organizations. It's very hard to create messages that appeal to all stakeholders," she commented.
Read more...
ComCoP: Three Years, $1 - $1.5 Million ComCoP Plan
Over the past year GAN-Net has initiated two face-to-face ComCoP meetings and facilitated numerous virtual exchanges, surveys and conversations going back over four years. This has resulted in a three year draft proposal for ComCoP, aiming to raise $1 - 1.5 million. The draft is now being circulated for comment by ComCoP participants, and will be presented for approval at their June 2-3 meeting.
Read more...
iCoP: Three-Year Plan Gets Funding
A three-year, $1.85 million proposal for iCop has already received $700,000 in commitments. "For GANs," observes iCoP Co-Steward Sanjeev Khagram, "this means that we can vastly increase our activities to develop the type of impact assessment methodologies that their complex work require."
Read more...
iCoP: August 26-27, The Hague
The next iCoP face-to-face meeting will be co-sponsored by the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict. The agenda is still being developed. However, it will advance the three-year plan to develop methodologies for GANs and review the GKP evaluation.
Read more...
iCoP: Global Knowledge Partnership Gets Evaluation
Through iCoP, GAN-Net and Keystone partnered with the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) to design and develop a system for improving monitoring and assessment of GKP's network learning and effectiveness. The focus of the evaluation was three fold:
Read more...
SSGCop: August 28-29, The Hague
The next SSGCoP face-to-face meeting will be co-sponsored by the Copernicus Institute at the University of Utrecht and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict. The agenda is still being developed. However, it will include presentation about the mapping methodologies being developed in three projects.
Read more...
SSGCoP: Mapping: A Critical Tool for GANs
Being able to clearly, accurately and simply describe the complex issue arenas that they work in is critical to GANs' success. It would be difficult to take truly strategic action without such an understanding. GANs will be unable to create clarity amongst stakeholders about their respective tasks and roles. They will be unable to communicate shifts in their issue arenas - hindering their ability to describe impact and heightening the danger of working on old problems rather than current ones.
Read more...
SSGCoP: 3-Year SSGCoP Plan Drafted
Drawing from projects, discussions and SSGCoP meetings, GAN-Net has drafted a three-year plan to raise $1.5 million for work on GANs' SSG challenges. The plan divides the CoP's activities into six thematic areas, each designed to address a key issues:
Read more...
|
