Online collaboration brings us access to richness of diversity in every sense: culture, ideas, information, knowledge, experience, and diverse perspectives. This richness allows you to both develop and share new ideas and knowledge, and achieve things that would be impossible alone.
This collaboration is realised by people joining one or more communities. Communities can also be defined as "knowledge networks", when they build and share knowledge with each other, and care about learning and sharing to increase and make knowledge useful for a purpose.
Online Communities have many uses:
- help disseminate, filter and evaluate materials, spreading the work over the network and providinging easy access to information
- foster and strengthen partnerships with clients, suppliers and other organisations
- provide the foundation for virtual collaboration, meetings and communication
- offer new and diverse perspectives that can assist in problem solving and innovation
- build and share knowledge
- connect people and groups that would not have met otherwise
- help find people we need in our work
- allow groups to create and deploy advocacy action across time and with a wide variety of participants
How do we use our online communities for development? How can they advance our development work? Getting information is good, but meeting our goals and creating change is better!
QEB provide a suite of prebuilt business tools which can be deployed to create online communities which help you meet your goals.
