Agribusiness Community of Practice Hyderabad, October 2010 Steve Giddings Regional Facilitator: Africa infoDev, World Bank [email protected]Heidi Humala Project Manager infoDev, World Bank [email protected]
1. Agribusiness Community of Practice Hyderabad,October 2010
Steve GiddingsRegional Facilitator: Africa infoDev, World Bank
[email_address] Heidi Humala Project Manager infoDev, World
Bank[email_address]
2.
The Seed
Incubation helps to increase business survival and growth
Business incubation mainly focused on ICT, manufacturing,
biotech, services..
What about agribusiness incubation? How do we help facilitate
more agri-incubators especially as the impact could be
enormous
3.
Germination
Finland/infoDev co-operation agreement
Finalisation of the agribusiness work plan to focus on
innovation, value adding, and sustainability
Formation of the Agribusiness Community of Practice with 110+
members from 35+ countriesbuilds on learning from gender, ICT and
high growth CoPs
1 stmeeting of the Community in Hyderabad Oct 10
4.
Growth?
Identification of what the Community needs to focus on (3-4
areas with support from infoDev)
Identification of how it will operate
Identification of the measures of success
Identification of champions
5.
Where to?
6.
has a communication mechanism
creates legitimacy (trust)
enables participation
enhances learning
creates community/identity
A Community of Practice 7.
a common language
a common purpose
evolution
shared background or experience
dynamicism
creation of new knowledge
the fact that the Community facilitates more than simply
interaction
[1]Seely Brown J. and Duguid P. 2000. "The Social Life of
Information." Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Communities of Practice facilitate this through : 8. Creating
legitimacy and trust How do we create legitimacy? How do we grow
trust across cultures, languages and distance ? 9.
the internet as a starton-line CoP
workshops
planning mechanisms that facilitate the adding of value.
A failure to facilitate participation can
lead to:
a lack of benefit addition
withdrawal of support
mistrust in the process
Facilitating participation 10.
What do we want to learn about?
Are we prepared to share our experiences?
Will we engage in vigorous debate?
Learning is an active process!
Enhancing learning 11. It is why we are here Participate! Share!
Make friends! Learn! Have fun! Follow up and continue to grow the
community when you leave.! Creating community!