(This post was originally published on the K4Health Blog)

Three senior Obama administration officials on Wednesday spoke at a policy forum held at the Kaiser Family Foundation on the Administration’s Global Health Initiative (GHI) – a six-year $63 billion proposed effort that will build on existing “disease-specific” initiatives and increase attention to other areas such as family planning, reproductive health, and maternal and child health.

(This post was originally published on the K4Health Blog)

One of our most critical outcomes from the three day meeting in Lilongwe, Malawi, with the District and National level stakeholders, was that the group no longer saw knowledge management as a problem that’s “out there” but rather began viewing it as a challenge that they wanted to take on as their own.
In our meeting, we continued to delve deeper into the challenge model process, we used the eight management and leadership practices that are outlined in the Managers Who Lead Framework to guide that process.

Thse two poems are just a sample of the Collence.T.Chisita collection of poetry works

1..IN MOTION

Strange how days swell
Morphs our world,
Through age ‘n’ place,
Yesterday winter had us helplessly incarcerated,
In the deep freezer of tropical winter,
Till this blazing summer heat,
shook away the, wintry pressure,
Only to have us scorched,
In the radiating summer sun.
Yes we are, dwellers in transient seasons,
Where dark vapors gather,
thundering ‘n’ brooding with rumbling echoes,
punctuated by outbreaks of lightning ‘n’thunder
Intermittently shaking’n’slicing mother earth,
into little islands.
Earth waltzes ‘n’ squirmishes,
To the celestial beat of heaven,
Knitting’n’weaving our dreams to nature,
From hotland to everglade,
Raindrops trickle erasing foot-prints,
Till the soil douses heavily soggy,
Ready for the hoe to muddy its edges,
In a new planting season.
On the bedside of hope,
hack it !muddle through!

The Functions of Current Local Legislation in Ensuring Compliance with Legal Deposit Requirements in the Context of Electronic Age: Case Study of Zimbabwe

By
Collence.T. Chisita 1
collencechisita@yahoo.com
zakstan@cooltoad.com
Collins.chisita@afritechno.com

Abstract

Sarah Cummings and I are writing a paper for the European Knowledge Management Conference in September 2010 with the ambitious title "Knowledge management for development: the “state of the art” and some crystal ball gazing." For both an analysis of the 'state of the art" and, of course, for the crystal ball gazing, we would really like to receive your input and help. Lots of the debates on this list are relevant to this (including the brown bag lunch one which is live at the moment) but we would particularly like your help in identifying literature and your opinions of the future of KM4Dev.

For the "state of the art", we have put together a list of the literature which we think is key to this - and we realise that we will need to make a distinction between this community and the field of KM4Dev - but you may know of the other things. In particular, we want to refer to literature which is looking at the broad field of KM4Dev and this community.