This Community of Practice has been up and running for three months now! An evaluation was conducted in July to see how it is going and where it might head in the future.
“This is a very good community and a very good start. I don’t think the interest in this group is going to go away.”
Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, and the engagement so far shows great promise. More than 120 people are signed up and a strong core group of members have been using the platform, commenting on the guidelines and participating in the regular virtual meetings.
Improvements are most needed on the platform and the weekly meetings can be less frequent. There were great ideas for restructuring the work around topics and smaller working groups.
Good communities of practice typically go through a natural evolution with more work needed at the start until the community matures and becomes self-sustaining.
Ideas for the future include:
- Use this as a platform for furthering regional work on data integration
- Focus the work on topics/areas of interest – deepen discussion
- Continue to be clear on the purpose and specific tasks of the community
- Invite more participation and external views
- Look more in-depth at real case studies and the costs and benefits
- Empower members to be more active
- Maintain informality and collegial environment
The full evaluation report will be made available to DI-COP members once finalized.
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