“Open Space is mysterious, chaotic — we are stepping into the unknown. How will we organize ourselves? What will we accomplish? We won’t know until it’s over, and maybe not even then.” I said something like this to a group of international development professionals, members of the Bond T4D and MEL communities of practice, on Tuesday the 27th of January, 2015.

I often say this sort of thing when introducing the Open Space method of organising events, and it is true. But...

Technology for monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL): we need to address complexity, interoperability and affordability.

How do we get people involved in the end product? How can end users be part of creating the product? and How do we add participation into an Agile process?