Knowledge platforms and local-level knowledge sharing - IISD

Abstract

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) advances policy recommendations and uses communications technologies to promote sustainable development. Using the Internet, IISD’s report on international negotiations and shares knowledge from collaborative, global research and development projects. This papers, however, focuses on how locally-generated knowledge can be shared at the community level and it provides three case studies of how local actors are using traditional and online approaches. It identifies eight lessons from local knowledge sharing that are also applicable to web-based knowledge management, as well as further reflections after the IDRC Learning Forum.