- 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]
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- Incubation helps to increase business survival and growth
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- Business incubation mainly focused on ICT, manufacturing,
biotech, services..
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- What about agribusiness incubation? How do we help facilitate
more agri-incubators especially as the impact could be
enormous
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- Finland/infoDev co-operation agreement
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- Finalisation of the agribusiness work plan to focus on
innovation, value adding, and sustainability
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- Formation of the Agribusiness Community of Practice with 110+
members from 35+ countriesbuilds on learning from gender, ICT and
high growth CoPs
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- 1 stmeeting of the Community in Hyderabad Oct 10
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- Identification of what the Community needs to focus on (3-4
areas with support from infoDev)
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- Identification of how it will operate
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- Identification of the measures of success
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- Identification of champions
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- has a communication mechanism
- creates legitimacy (trust)
- creates community/identity
A Community of Practice 7.
- shared background or experience
- 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
- planning mechanisms that facilitate the adding of value.
- A failure to facilitate participation can
- a lack of benefit addition
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!