[Network-Centric Resources] Notes from Human Centred Design and Sharing Ownership Skillshare

[Dirk Slater]

Hello Everyone,

We had an online skillshare yesterday and it was awesome. In attendance were Heather Leson, Kaustubh Srikanth, Kristin Antin and Myself.

Some top level bullet points:
- Sometimes branding can get in the way of sharing ownership (and also branding can get in the way of achieving the mission behind the resource)
- it’s critical to understand how knowledge sharing happens within a community or network, especially in situations where that community or network is pretty diverse.
- Interviewing network members in order to create profiles that will inform content development is a great way to begin the process of sharing ownership.
- Providing easy guidelines on collaboration and sharing goes a long way (i.e., its more than okay to share content outside of a network as long as appropriate credit and attribution is included).

What people are working on:
- Heather is developing a bunch of resources for the International Federation of the Red Cross to further Data Literacy within the network (which is huge and diverse)
- Kaustubh is working on Totem, Greenhost’s initiative to develop a digital security MOOC
- Kristin is working on the Collaboratory, Huridoc’s initiative on sharing knowledge between human rights defenders.
- Dirk is working on the network-centric resources project.

Other network centric resources that people are learning from and being inspired by:
- The Sphere Handbook - http://www.sphereproject.org/handbook/ Standards in Humanitarian Response
- Mozilla's Digital Literacy - web literacy - https://learning.mozilla.org/en-US/web-literacy
- World Economic Forum's Digital Literacy Curriculum- SDG’s https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/8-digital-skills-we-must-teach-our-children/
- EFF’s SSD Guide - https://ssd.eff.org/en
- Security First Umbrella App - https://secfirst.org
- Monitor and Evaluation Training Guide - https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/monitoring-and-evaluation-training/book241043

Dirk’s Interview Questions to Develop Profiles for the Network-Centric Resources Project
* What is the problem that your organisation/effort is trying to solve?
**How does your role contribute to that?
**What are your biggest challenges in your work?
* What challenges would you be looking to this resource to solve for you?
**How could this help improve your work?
**What are critical topics that you think should be addressed in this resource?
* What platforms/tools are you currently using to develop resources in a collaborative way?
* What questions would you ask others who might be using this resource to improve their own work?
* Where do you currently get support/knowledge on these topics? What other resources are helpful?

What Dirk has learned so far about members of this network need:
- case studies and real stories on developing successful network-centric resources
- opportunities to access other network members for peer knowledge exchange on overcoming challenges (and this might be more important than developing content)
- examples of different governance models that effectively share ownership and enable people to contribute.

Dirk's next steps:
- Compiling a list of Network Centric Resources (please send Dirk any NCR resources you find informative/inspiring!)
- Conducting research with successful NCR projects to build case studies and understand governance models
- An upcoming blog post on how to develop and use profiles to share ownership and use as a foundation to build resources.

Think that’s it for now. Heather, Kaustubh and Kristin - please feel free to correct or add anything to this! And thanks again for a lovely Skillshare.

Cheers,

Dirk


Dirk Slater
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