Global Impact Study
Impact Indicators Workshop
Montpellier, France
March 2010
Christine Prefontaine

• share our strategy: outline role of researchers in communications & knowledge sharing
• get feedback & ideas from the group
• ensure everyone comfortable creating updates & coming to Christine for help
• focus now on website, later on creating publications

• overall approach
• selected tools & tactics
• a few practical tips

• position the project as a source of rigorous, reliable research
• produce a consistent flow of information about project activities and outputs
• make it easy for others to use and build on our work
• create resources that can be used to influence policy, practice, program design, and investment decisions

• privileging public communication
• working transparently public, named authorship
• using a creative commons license that makes it easy for others to build on our work for research outputs & communications content only, not raw data

• embed knowledge-sharing
& communications people closest to the work are the best suited to document it
• get the basics right leaving traces, producing documenting the project’s evolution and milestones, sharing internally
• create materials for others to use
• communicator as facilitator & curator setting up and maintaining systems, supporting researchers, highlighting “best of” project content, packaging and promoting key findings

• communication materials will be produced in english
• french, spanish, portuguese versions of basic project information
• website in english, no language switcher
• others will localize to reach influentials

• research partners (research working group, country-based researchers)
• project sponsors
• TASCHA team

• given our distributed approach we need mechanisms to share internally
• adopt practice to read and publicly comment on each other’s updates

• library & telecentre communities
(practitioners, program designers)
• academic community
• funders & policymakers

• progress update once per quarter
• research output update one per intermediate output
• event update once per event

• researchers post interim content
(reports, working papers) directly, no quality check
• there will be a review process for final reports

static: basic about info dynamic: categorized, tagged, featured

home page of website follow, re-tweet!

• “push” communication tool designed to increase awareness and interest
• TASCHA team selects the top four or five updates to feature in the newsletter
• title & teaser to entice people to go to website to learn more
• micro-updates, latest publications

• flickr.com/groups/globalimpactstudy
(must request to join)
• metadata : descriptive title, tags with
"globalimpactstudy", photographer, location, date, link to your URL
• need IRB approval

• Dgroup list to broadcast messages to research partners
• PBwiki for internal logistics
• Redmine for database development and maintenance
• executive committee space on Global
Libraries toolkit (document repository)
• contacts database (CRM)

• working papers interim documents with authoring institution branding + plus standard global impact branding elements
• research reports final reports from individual components
• instruments & methods
TBD
• final project report big analysis piece
• advocacy materials

• guidelines provided online but no editorial or formatting support for working papers or research reports
• TASCHA to package final project report, instruments, advocacy materials

teaser custom URL tags category

• answer questions
• help you set up your account
• help you post an update
• create content about this event pref@uw.edu