CoP

Community of practice (CoP), according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave andEtienne Wenger, is a term that describes a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. The group can evolve naturally because of the members' common interest in a particular domain or area, or it can be created specifically with the goal of gaining knowledge related to their field. It is through the process of sharing information and experiences with the group that the members learn from each other, and have an opportunity to develop themselves personally and professionally (Lave & Wenger 1991). CoPs can exist online, such as within discussion boards andnewsgroups, or in real life, such as in a lunchroom at work, in a field setting, on a factory floor, or elsewhere in the environment.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Not exactly tracking aid

But this is a tool to track a lot of public data: http://www.google.com/publicdata/home

Data include:

World Development Indicators (subset), World Bank

and that includes a whole lot of data, like net migration, and ratio of boys to girls in primary and secondary education.

Check this one out, on poverty per household: http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&ctype=l&strail=false&nselm=h&met_y=si_pov_nahc&hl=en&dl=en#ctype=c&strail=false&nselm=s&met_y=si_pov_nahc&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&idim=country:DZA:ALB:BGD:AZE:BOL:BIH&ifdim=country&hl=en&dl=en
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