Social reporting at the Global Development Network conference

We have been working with CommsConsult to support GDNet at their 12th Annual Conference in Bogota. Together we provided training for GDNet Awards and Medals Finalists in presentation skills and the use of social media before the event so they were among the contributors to the conference reporting blog.

This followed our collaboration at the AgKnowledge Africa ShareFair in October 2010. We are plan to use that experience to review approaches to evaluating the impact of social reporting at events as well as their longer term impact in supporting communication programmes such as R4D, on which we also collaborate.

Natural Resources and Development - 10th GDN Conference

Six pre-conference workshops, four plenary sessions, some twenty parallels, and over four hundred participants: these are the impressive numbers of the 10th GDN Annual Conference taking place in Kuwait City, 1-5 February 2009.

The main theme of the event is "the crucial relationship between natural resources and development", and delegates will address this by discussing the political economy aspect of the issue, its the relations with sustainable development and the management of natural resource.

Among others, speakers include Ernesto Zedillo, Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization at Yale University, Justin Lin, World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Paul Collier, Director for the Center for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford. See the complete agenda on the conference website.

Euforic's Chris Addison and Pier Andrea Pirani are participating in the conference and working with GDNet colleagues to 'blip' participants and to collect impressions, reactions and opinions on the issues discussed.

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