Context

Assisting international cooperation agencies and their local partners in transferring knowledge has often been connected to consultancies for elaborating technical requirements analyses and interventions for organizational development for government institutions and non-profits in Central Asia and Africa.

Description

The K-Link Network is an Open Source software platform that allows controlled sharing of structured and unstructured data from different sources and thus builds up a common, but decentralized knowledge network. To facilitate access to the K-Link, we developed a Document Management Solution, called K-Box. It allowed organizations and teams to jointly manage documents, images, videos and geoinformation.

The Document Management System - K-Box

We built the K-Link Network, an open initiative where representatives from different organizations, governmental, scientific and educational institutions, civil society and international organizations came together to promote Sustainable Land Management in Central Asia. We produced, collected, shared, distributed and made accessible knowledge materials (methodologies, best practices, project results) and worked towards improving access to these materials for land users.

Community activation workshop in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

We provided the network and DMS instances as a service hosted on a suitable server infrastructure. One of the biggest roll-outs of the K-Link network and related K-Boxes was for a video platform project on Sustainable Land Management in Tajikistan, realized for the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan and financed by the World Bank.