Barbara Schelkle

Manager, Knowledge Sharing Systems, UNDP

Biography

Barbara Schelkle

Barbara is the Manager for Knowledge Sharing Systems at UNDP – the United Nations Development Program. She manages various CMS and Knowledge Management projects in UNDP globally and advises Country Offices and Regional Centers on their web based collaboration and content management projects. Barbara coordinated the corporate Intranet Task Force in 2009 and currently manages the Intranet Implementation Project, based on MS SharePoint. Additionally, she has driven various outsourcing projects for the organization and oversees third-party developer resources in Canada, India and Slovakia.

Barbara has vast project management experience in the private and public sector in the fields of Knowledge Management, Enterprise Application Integration, System Development and Quality Assurance. She holds a diploma of computer science from the Technical University in Berlin and various other certificates, including Prince2 Practitioner.

UNDP

UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.

World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP's network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. Our focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of:

* Democratic Governance

* Poverty Reduction

* Crisis Prevention and Recovery

* Environment and Energy

* HIV/AIDS

UNDP helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women.

Presentation

A new intranet for a highly decentralized international organization

Case: UNDP

Intranet, Conference Day #2, Thursday May 6th, 1.00 pm - 2.00 pm

UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) is an intergovernmental organization with about 10,000 staff worldwide: 1,500 in HQ in New York, and more than 7,500 staff in 166 Country Offices around the world. The current intranet situation is fragmented, with a mix of technologies (open source and proprietary) and many different entry points on the corporate, regional and country office level.

In this presentation you will learn how UNDP approaches the challenging task of creating a better intranet environment in such a disparate environment, from the first inception of the Intranet Task Force to the Intranet Implementation Project with these four outcomes:

  • Corporate SharePoint platform
  • Corporate Governance framework
  • User Interface redesign
  • Solutions for local office intranet implementations

Expert panel discussion

Conference Day #1, Wednesday May 5th, 2.30 pm - 3.30 pm