Cairo Concept: Village to Village Knowledge Sharing

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Cairo Concept Village to Village Knowledge
Sharing

• Web 2 for Development
• FAO, Rome, Italy
• 25-27 September, 2007

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What is the Cairo Concept?

• History and background
• Goal
• To bring together expertise, knowledge, and
  local experiences in a single, online, Virtual
  Development Neighbourhood that Empowers
  Communities across the globe to Create, Share,
  Store, and Use Knowledge for Sustainable
  Development.

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Concept

• Improving Lives
• Empowerment
• Learning
• Shared Value

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Design

• The first step is a Pre-Proposal Stage. This
  will allow the team to construct the Virtual
  Development Neighbourhood (VDN) in Beta (i.e.,
  test) form. The lessons learned in this
  four-month Pre-Proposal Stage will be integrated
  into the second phase.
• Secondly, an Initial Implementation Phase will
  develop this grassroots approach to sustainable
  development. Twenty Five local communities in
  different regions of the world (Africa, Central
  Asia, South Asia and the Pacific in the South
  and the Nordic region in the North) will be
  mobilised to participate in the pilot project.
• The final step is a Downstream Implementation
  Phase. Lessons learned in the first and second
  phases will be used to ensure that the network
  remains relevant and accessible to all users, and
  downstream opportunities will be investigated.
• But most importantly, the Virtual Development
  Neighbourhood should be sustainable beyond the
  end of this three-year project achieving this
  will require all project partners to contribute
  their expertise and knowledge and this knowledge
  must be used if it is to be effective.

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Network Concept
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Why I am here
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Our Questions to you

• How to lead the establishment of the website in
  Beta form,
• What Physical infrastructure (computers, internet
  connection) and Human Infrastructure (training)
  for three pilot villages as the first part of
  the Virtual Development Neighbourhood is
  required?
• Feasibility?

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Next Steps

• Engage with communities and build infrastructure
• Find opportunities to create shared value
• Collaborate and Co-operate

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Cairo Concept Team