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Mon, 07/28/2008 - 16:00 — Chriswaterguy

Being interviewed with Mark Charmer (@charmermark) I learnt a lot about Akvo & that I didn't know until the interview started. He expressed very well the issue of organizations each having their own silos of knowledge, and the potential that arises from opening them up.

Akvo is a NGO focused on water, working in the Netherlands, and they are developing Akvopedia. Akvo and Appropedia are discussing how we can best work together. It's unfortunate that the names are so similar - it gets confusing - but the main thing is to work out the best way to share content, to collaborate rather than duplicate our efforts.

Watch the video at Global Swadeshi Dialogs - Mark Charmer of AKVO and Chris Watkins of Appropedia - you can leave comments there or here. If I seem a bit quiet, it's partly the 36 hours' travel from Australia, arriving in the Netherlands the day before the interview.

Or download the rather large MP4 video file (250 mb). An audio-only file isn't available yet (we're just all very busy).

Originally posted, by the same author, at Pablo Garuda.

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