Learning Café HUM57
Cross-fertilisation of Ideas and Peer Learning at/for the Humanitarian Sector
Date Thursday, Dec 6 Time – Room Schöneberg
There are numerous UN initiatives to improve organisational culture in the humanitarian sector and create timely, flexible mobile learning. In this Learning Café we will share information about these activities and learn from each other as a group, so that we can cross-fertilise ideas about how to link into them.
Chairpersons
Abel Henry
UNICEF, USA
Abel is Learning and Technology Officer for UNICEF, coordinating the development of content, implementation of systems and promotion of innovative practices.
UNICEF's elearning initiatives are now hosted on Agora, which offers a number of services and courses for free to external audiences.
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Tom Wambeke
ITC-ILO, Italy
Tom Wambeke, Belgium, is graduated in Educational Sciences and holds a Master in Cultural Management and recently finished an Executive Business LEAD degree in Innovation at Stanford University.
Before joining the International Training Centre of the ILO he was assistant Professor at the University of Leuven and innovation coach at Open Higher Education.
He is currently Programme Manager of DELTA which specializes in providing sustainable learning solutions with the objective to generate impact and organizational change.
The unit he is leading has a double mandate: to strengthen the Centre’s in-house capacity to apply state-of-the art learning and knowledge sharing methods and technology, and to provide (e)-learning services to outside partners on a global scale. In this context he works closely together with UN agencies, development banks, international organisations, governments and NGO’s.
As a certified international facilitator (IAF) he’s actively involved in strategy facilitation, participatory knowledge sharing, networked learning and ICT4Development. This he combines with a passion for complexity adaptive thinking, foresight analysis and futures exploration.