Tag: digitalhumanitarian

  • Technology Stewardship, is it for the Sahana Habitat?

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    Last week, I was part of a Research Team that pilot tested a training course designed to build Technology Stewardship capacity in support of knowledge mobilization. The concept originates from Wenger, White, and Smith’s work on Communities of Practice, published in the Digital Habitat. From a Digital Habitat perspective the research team would be classified…

  • Using Sahana to Support Volunteer Technical Communities

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    Michael Howden
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    There’s a lot of similarities  between traditional disaster management organizations and volunteer technical communities such as Sahana’s – especially when you look at our operations from a information management perspective. We collaborate on projects with partner organization, often breaking the work down into tasks that are worked on by numerous people. For this reason we’ve been…