Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net): About, Overview, Challenges

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Challenges

There are several challenges with preparing, implementing and maintaining a complex, multi-page, and extensive portal website for CBNRM knowledge management and knowledge sharing. As a user of CBNRM Net, you may consider evaluating the website in light of the following questions and challenges:

How broad to define CBNRM - and CBNRM knowledge management and knowledge sharing - for the purposes of this website? That is, what to include and what not to include? A corollary is how to link with existing Internet resources?
How to divide the overall field of CBNRM into smaller parts that are concrete and practical, that is, manageable? As discussed above (see Page Knowledge management and knowledge sharing and Page Architecture and content), CBNRM knowledge is organized hierarchically in: (1) Sections, (2) Categories, (3) Groups, (4) Items, and (5) Pages. Is this a useful way of identifying, organizing and structuring CBNRM knowledge?
How to integrate the various parts of CBNRM Net, and create a seamless way of navigating the website? Are there other ways of doing this, in addition to, for example, hyperlinks, navigation bars, a search function, a table of contents, and as CBNRM Net is, at present, aimed at those that have a certain understanding of CBNRM, or that are a CBNRM practitioner. At the same time, those who want to learn about CBNRM should also be targeted. How to cater to their needs? What about organizing training and capacity building in CBNRM? Could such training become part of CBNRM Net, that is, an online CBNRM training and capacity building capability?
A key feature of CBNRM Net is the parallel and mutually supportive emphases on user involvement and management, on the one hand, and knowledge management and knowledge sharing, on the other hand (see Page Rationale and Page Knowledge management and knowledge sharing). This is realized through, among others: (1) users submitting CBNRM knowledge, and (2) users being responsible for CBNRM content provision and management. What are your views on this? How to achieve the separate but connected goals of user involvement and user management?
How to link the use of CBNRM knowledge with the production of CBNRM knowledge?
What is the need for technical advice on doing CBNRM? How to structure CBNRM Net in order to achieve optimal sharing and exchange of CBNRM knowledge?
What about languages? That is, how much of the website should be available in languages other than English? Which parts of the website? Which languages?
The aim is that CBNRM Net members - and members of the CBNRM community of practice more generally - can communicate in a fast and cost-effective way. The available means of communication are, mainly, email and the Internet. How to balance these means of communication, and when to use what form? Are there other ways and means of communicating that should be explored? What should CBNRM Net's overall communication strategy be?