OUTLOOK: Edition three, June 2012
CDKN's Climate and Development Outlook newsletter brings you news of selected results from our worldwide programme in the last quarter, including disaster risk reduction and cross-agency initiatives on low emissions development.
Feature
22nd May 2012
Trains or ponds - pick your metaphor for knowledge sharing
As he prepared to convene climate knowledge brokers in Bonn, CDKN's Geoff Barnard found himself searching for a metaphor for the online world of climate and development knowledge.
Feature
22nd May 2012
What makes web users 'tick'?
Climate knowledge brokers convened by CDKN and GIZ in Bonn this weekend were interested in ‘what makes web users tick’. Mairi Dupar of CDKN took part in the discussions.
Feature
20th May 2012
Changing context for climate knowledge brokers
CDKN and GIZ are convening a meeting of climate knowledge brokers in Bonn, Germany. Participants are mapping new trends in climate politics and action, and what it means for digital communicators.
Event
16th May 2012
Highlights from the Climate Knowledge Brokers' Workshop
The Climate Knowledge Brokers Workshop was convened in Bonn from 18-20 May. Geoff Barnard and Mairi Dupar blogged from the workshop - read on to find out whether knowledge infrastructure is more of a pond or a network, and what makes web users tick.
This project aims to foster the creation of a global network of journalists and media organisations in the developing world that are capable of reporting on climate-change adaptation and other aspects of environmental finance for both a general and specialised audience.
The InfoAmazonia GeoJournalism Platform builds on existing simple yet effective mapping and visualisation technologies, such as Google Earth, to help journalists and other knowledge brokers increase the Latin American public’s awareness about climate and development issues in the Amazon region.
This joint initiative between three knowledge brokers aims to advance the user demand-driven development, refinement and cross-linking between weADAPT, the Climate Information Portal (CIP) and AfricaAdapt.
This project focuses on two priorities: integrating heterogeneous and globally distributed information sources, and tailoring data into relevant content that can be communicated in a way that allows stakeholders to find sector-specific knowledge.
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Institute of Development Studies (IDS), together with partner knowledge networks, are trying to address the climate change knowledge gap through an in-depth analysis of how different user groups of climate knowledge broker services assess, access and apply knowledge from these services.
The Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) and reegle, a unique clean energy information portal, are working with three partners (weADAPT, Eldis and OpenEI) on a project that aims to drastically improve the efficiency of tagging and categorizing clean energy documents with a new user interface.
IDS, UNEP, the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre and REEP are developing a web-based interactive tool – the Climate Change Knowledge Navigator – to guide users through to appropriate climate change information and knowledge brokers. The tool will be embedded in existing websites and portals as a widget.
