Net-Map is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes. More
This is what our participants in Nigeria asked. Clare Narrod (IFPRI) and Paolo Duarte (ILRI) asked people involved in the poultry sector in Nigeria to draw a net-map about how suspected cases of avian flu are communicated to the respective authorities and how the reaction (i.e. eventually quarantining and culling birds) goes down to the [...]
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I love Ghanaians anyway. But if I didn’t already, then their creative use of the English language would definitely convert me. After a hot net-map session about risk communication in the context of avian flu, one participant from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture introduced me to this Ghanaianism: “We only jaw-jaw!” Meaning: “Man, we [...]
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If you want to read about the case of the White Volta Basin Board in Ghana in more detail and have a more research oriented view of Net-Map, check out our new discussion paper: “Tracing Power and Influence in Networks; Net-Map as a Tool for Research and Strategic Network Planning” (by Eva Schiffer and Douglas [...]
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Patrice Chollet asks in his comment, whether he can adapt and use Net-Map in his training for small enterprises to become aware of the potential of collaborative work to further their development. He writes: “I found a reference to Net-Map last month and have been impressed by the structure and potential of the toolkit as [...]
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So what do you do if you are interested in understanding the structure of a network of individuals and the network is too big or your resources too small, to interview each and every one of the 500 members as to who they are linked to? Sometimes, for getting a bigger picture of the structure, [...]
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I’m just coming out of an intense session with 70 or so members of the KM4Dev community, mapping out the networks that members of the community have with each other. It was intense because of the size of the group (we worked in sub-groups) but also because we experimented with the format and came up [...]
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While I am packing my bags to fly to Portugal to map out the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community and from there to Ghana and Ethiopia, to understand communication flows in the context of avian flu, I am also packing my bags in a bigger sense. I am leaving the safe haven of being [...]
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Those of you who clicked on my link to get a download of the computer program that I use to visualize influence networks, might have been confused, because it was a rather generic link that just led to the main page of the software company. The following comment will help you to get there more [...]
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Now I’m not talking about a rural village but a community of practice. Today I had a great discussion with some of my colleagues of Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) about how to best map out this community of practice at our annual meeting in Lisbon next week. Who are we, what are the roles [...]
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At our last workshop in Bolgatanga, Ghana one of the participants, the regional head of office of the Red Cross, walked up to me with a beaming smile on his face: “Eva, the thing you taught us last time you where here [meaning: Net-Map], we are now using it with our community groups! It’s working [...]
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