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KDMD

History

2002 -

2012

2002

Bush announces New Compact for Development

USAID initiated AMAP

AMAP IQC awarded

www.usaidmicro.org existed as the original MD office site

Also in 2002:

US invades Afghanistan

New England Patriots win the Super Bowl

Spider Man rules the box office

2003

Knowledge Management

and Communications Task

Order Awarded

Training and Admin Task

Order Awarded

The first Scholarship Fund

designed and launched

FRED designedAlso in 2003:

SARS spreads across Asia, North America,

and Europe

US and Britain launch war against Iraq

Norah Jones wins five Grammy awards

2004

Technical Assistance developed for MD modules for EG

training

microLINKS created

Communities Of Practice are designed

Connections newsletter starts

Microenterprise Results and Accountability Act passes

Congress

AMAP PASSN awarded

Also in 2004:

George W Bush re-elected

9/11 Commission report released

Indian Ocean tsunami

Martha Stewart goes to jail

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2005

microLINKS shut down (3 months) over 508 compliance

and Privacy and PRA

Poverty Frontiers launched

Value Chain Workshop Ethiopia

Breakfast and After Hours begin

Speaker's Corner established

First Seminar Innovations: Participants conference call into

seminars

Notes from the Field start

AARs begin Also in 2005:

Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast

Iraq holds elections

Million Dollar Baby wins best picture Oscar

2006

MD Learning Conference

First Road Show to

Sanabel (Morocco) and

MFC-Romania

Poverty and Conflict event

Microlinks Refresh

Connections rebranding

RAF training

MRR awarded

Field Support Launched

IRG staff co-located at QED

Also in 2006:

Saddam Hussein is executed

Donald Rumsfeld resigns

Steve Irwin is killed by a stingray

2007Henrietta Fore becomes 15th USAID administrator

AMAP VC Workshop (Cairo)

PASSN Conflict symposium

E-Gov KM Award win

ED Communications Strategy

AMAP BDS, FS, & EE end

Team starts using Basecamp

Team Wiki launched

Scholarship Fund ends

SAGA Series

Also in 2007:

Housing bubble bursts

Final Harry Potter book published

An Inconvenient Truth wins best

documentary

2008

KDMD begins

VC Workshop (Tanzania)

MIKAL CoP

GoTo Meeting replaces

conference calls

CIP meetings

E&E buy-in

EG buy-in

Grants Under Contract

Program Initiated

Also in 2008:

Obama elected

China hosts summer Olympics

Wall Street crashes

2009Raj Shah sworn in as 16th USAID Administrator

MFC Serbia pilot for video media capture activities

Decision to move to Drupal open source Software

GROOVE Network

Poverty in Conflict Learning Network

Micro Risk Alliance Learning Network

FS Share launches under FS BPA

AG/BFS buy-in

First EG training

Rice Study eConsultation

First Drupal sites launched

Also in 2009:

Miracle on the Hudson

Justice Sotomayor sworn in

Michael Jackson dies

2010

USAID Forward announced

PPL Bureau launched/ buys in

KMIC launched

WH, State, and USAID launch FTF initiative

Microlinks 2.0 and KDID Launched

Ag training begins

Share Fair (Addis)

Jamaica CoP launched Also in 2010:

Earthquake devastates Haiti

US forces withdraw from Iraq

Chile miners rescued

BP oil spills in Gulf

2011

Agrilinks launched

FTF website redesign

launched

USAID releases new

Evaluation Policy

GenDev buy-in

MFS Seminar Series

First Greenroom Interview

Diaspora Seminar series

begins

Ag Tech Evidence Summit

PPL Complexity Event

PPL Futures Symposium

Microlinks 2.0 roadshow:

MFC Prague, Sanabel,

Cracking the Nut, Making

Cents, SEEP

Also in 2011:

Arab Spring

Tsunami hits Japan

Osama bin Laden is killed

Prince William and Kate Middleton wed

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