Competence areas: Communications & Teamwork - Knowledge Translation - Listening Attitude - Skills

The practical and effective use of this knowledge depends on people who have skills to find and access content that is pertinent to problems that must be solved.

The knowledge translation skills that atria.us seeks to support and further develop for you is related to your skill level (we aim to provide a tool to help you in self-assessing your skill level). Also we want coaches to be guided by trainee skill levels.

By documenting development cases, and the fact-finding and learning paths of stakeholders (trainees, coaches, third parties) solving them or journalists commenting on them, we also want to contribute to improved knowledge translation practice in development initiatives, journalism, education and (open) government.

Trainee: if you have a low skill level

• Get to know your literacy level (tool to be constructed);
• Take the online training material that takes into consideration your skill level, and supports you in acquiring a higher skill level in an area that is of interest to you, for instance agriculture, health, education, …

In the near future, we want to estabilish a community of coaches with high literacy level that is willing to coach you in your literacy learning paths, addressing the development problems that you face.

Coach: If you have a high skill level

• It is also valuable to know your literacy level, and know the implications of audience literacy levels for communication channel choices.
• Knowledge of systematized content commons as a means for capturing (externalizing) knowledge of concrete development problems and possible solutions in a comprehensible manner: how to create comprehensible content that can easily be found and understood by persons with a certain literacy level?
  • Concepts to know and steps to follow when planning for the use of internet-based services to support development initiatives.
  • For a new development initiative, determine which available content it can reuse, and which "new content" must be codified and added to the content commons, without creating duplications or rewording.