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Development of a virtual
knowledge network
Geraldine Velandria
Social Affairs Officer
Division for Gender Affairs
1 December 2010
Objective
Development of a national and
subregional knowledge network for
sharing information and good
practices in data collection and
programmes to promote evidencebased policies to eradicate violence
against women
Project framework
Interregional project “Enhancing
capacities to eradicate violence against
women through networking of local
knowledge communities.”
Virtual communities
of knowledge
Sustainability of the project depends in
great measure on the commitment of
stakeholders toward the building of a
community of exchange and
dissemination of knowledge, whereby
information absorbed, understood,
interpreted and used as a basis for
action.
Wiki platform “Confluence”
 Gateway to access the technical and sharing
tools produced by the project.
 Sharing space to encourage networks of
exchanges between counterparts of the
international project.
 Support of communities of practices and
project management, collaborative document
preparation, real-time collaboration, web
conferencing, application sharing, document
repository, blogs, etc.
What is Confluence?
 Confluence is a wiki (Enterprise wiki)
– Wiki- is simple and quick web publishing
 Developed using HTML standards and is
tested with all major browsers (Internet
explorer, Netscape …)
 Runs on all operating systems/ Hardware
Platforms (Windows …)
Aim of Collaboration
 Share information and knowledge
 Access to experts and their expertise
 Facilitate the relationship building
between individuals and communities
 Improve productivity
Why wiki?
• Manages textual and graphic content
• Provides tools for editing and authoring
the content
• Allows users to view the content on their
web browsers
• Fine grained security with space and page
level permissions.
• Creates a blog in every space with 'News‘
• Pages, comments, blogs and attachments
are all searchable.
• Email integration PDF exporting, and
more...
Features of Confluence
Types of space
 Global spaces: areas which allow you to
group content items (pages, attachments,
news, etc) and create separate areas for each
group of users or each project within the
network platform.
 Personal spaces for the particular users:
They can contain pages and news items, be
searched and browsed. Each user may decide
to keep it private or to share it with every user
of the platform, in which case the type of
access will depend on the permissions granted
by the administrator, just like global spaces.
Evolution of the collaborative space
 Started as a project management collaborative
space.
 Second phase: community building to
encourage networks of exchanges between
mechanisms for the advancement of women,
statistical offices and producers of
administrative records.
 Each country has now a specific page to share
statistical data, substantive documents,
meeting reports or any other national
information on the situation of violence against
women.
Getting started
• Username and
password
• Quick and
extended user
guides
• Pedagogical video
(CD)
Related web pages
 Interregional website:
http://www.eclac.cl/mujer/cepal/
 Wiki restricted platform: http://wiki.cepal.org
 Gender Equality Observatory for Latin
America and the Caribbean:
http://www.cepal.org/oig/