Workshop report - weADAPT

Climate Knowledge Brokers Workshop 2013
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Closing remarks
We left with a definite spring in our step, a renewed commitment to work together, and a
clear call to raise out sights as a group to help tackle the challenges that information users
face. Some of the closing remarks from participants are captured below.
“There’s so much work taking place at different levels and not enough synergies... I
have learned there is a passionate community here and hope it can be consolidated
and taken forward.”
“I really enjoyed it … on the downside, we are on the status quo minus train at the moment –
we all need to take a step to get to status quo plus.”
“It would be great if everyone can recommend 3 additional knowledge managers
to let know about this group; we are going to need that additional diversification of
the group to keep the momentum growing”
“I really enjoyed the workshop. I’m still a bit worried about end users, end users, end users!
We need to think about what is the best structure to support them. We really need to work
more on that”
“The thing I’m most excited about as we move forward is this idea of common
standards, ideas and frameworks.”
“Everything was useful as we are so new to this topic. I found especially the case study and
the knowledge clinic was really useful as we are just starting. This idea of the geek squad
would be very ,very useful; being based in Bangladesh, capacity building is really needed.”
“I was really delighted I could attend this. I felt really isolated last year; I am quite
new to the climate sector… I feel less lonely now suddenly; I wish I was aware of this
group last year so I wouldn’t have wasted so much time trying to reinvent the
wheel!”
“A fantastic group of people to work with; I had a great time. My takeaway is that the group
is inherently online and we really need to kick it into gear offline more too.”
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