Back from ICTD2010 - first debrief post (refs to sessions 4304 and 4108 ) December 17, 2010

Back home. Snow has just fallen again.

I won't try an overview of ICTD2010 yet. Instead I'll do my personal debrief and post to posterous now and again as I go along.

I'll be:

1. checking emails
2. working through the cards I collected from people
3. flicking thro' some odd notes I made
4. referring back to the program
5. checking some of the #ictd2010 tweets
6. remembering stuff
7. joining up the dots
8. acting on stuff - or simply noting to myself that I would like to act on it - if ever time/resources allow.
9. trying to add all names I mention to the dadamac network http://www.dadamac.net/Community/Network

Sequence

If there is any time sequencing it will probably be working backwards - from what is closest, most recent, like a twitter stream, the comfortable way to do it... but it'll jump about - as i connect ideas, sort out cards, follow twitter links

ICTD2010 sessions relevant to this post

• I'm thinking about my "appropriate de-briefing" and how "all over the place" mine may seem to anyone from an organisation with tighter structures and targets.Puts me in mind of session 4304 - where Mark Thompson was  talking about organisations as pseudopods, which made total sense to me.  The nearest thing I have for an "organisational diagram" of Dadamac is  an amoeba. I first drew it in 2004, with David Mutua in Ago-Are. It was for "Cawdnet" which then morphed into "Dadamac" - so despite the change in name the "fluid structure" is still completely appropriate. If I had time/resources I'd explain about that somewhere and illustrate it with decent diagrams. Better still - if  Mark Thompson had any research students looking into the ideas and realities of the pseudopodic organisation maybe they could include Cawdnet and Dadamac in their case studies. I wish something was written up already because I think it might reassure my friends and associates in Coalition of the Willing (CotW) as they grapple with deciding appropriate structures. 

• I'm also thinking about the fact that it will take time and effort to do my debrief to posterous - so why do I bother?  I try to do this "over the shoulder" view of what I am doing as it enables easy reference later on. I complements Nikki blogs of our weekly UK-Nigeria meetings - which pull in what is happening in Nigeria (the "Dada" side of Dadamac), and - also on a weekly basis - I gather up what I've been up to, mainly by pointing to my posts on posterous. This is all part of Dadamac's approach to visibility - which we do in order to enable easy collaboration. I hadn't previously thought of it as part of the "Open agenda". I know we use open source software and have connections with Open education resources etc, but I hadn't' thought of our "visibililty" policy as part of "Open" before. However when I was at session 4108 - which was about Open Development I began to see it in that context.  So - "Dadamac and Open Development" another "case study" for my list of things I'd like to share if I had time/resources to get it written up.

Hmm - now back to that list of 1-8 things to do during my debrief. I see I've already started " 6 - remembering stuff and 7 - joining up the dots".

Posted to  Dadamac's Posterous by Pamela McLean

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