On the day before the conference was a workshop on Participatory Methodology run by Robert Chambers. I had the benefit to come into the workshop unaware of Robert Chamber’s celebrity status in development circles.
He certainly was an interesting man. Although he was at least 70, he went jogging each morning (and was impressed by the [...]...
As part of Robert Chamber’s Workshop on Participatory Methods at the DevNet Conference, people were invited to speak on their participatory experiences. I was already thinking about the “participatory” approach I had taken with developing the ProLogs software, and somewhat hastily decided to share my experience.
For those of you who don’t know, ProLogs is a [...]...
There were a number of interesting sessions during the conference. Although there were a great deal of speakers who talked about a variety of development/poverty/aid topics, these are the session which I attended AND remember 3 weeks on from the conference:
Stephen Haslett, a statistician, gave an interesting talk on small scale estimation of poverty. The [...]...
The highlight of the conference was meeting people in the development sector, and the conversations we had. Robert Chamber’s Workshop presented some really interesting ideas, which flavoured the conference, and stimulated some interesting thoughts for me. Being in a conference environment, surrounded by academic types, absorbing new information, really inspired me to do more study [...]...
These are links which I have collected from a number of hand outs from the conference. Some of the summaries have been copied from the hand outs.
DevNet
The Aotearoa New Zealand International Development Studies Network, the organisers of the conference.
www.devnet.org.nz
Dev-Zone
A New Zealand based development resource centre.
www.dev-zone.org
Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA)
VSA were out in force at [...]...