In 2024, a group I am involved with that is associated with the World Bank Group were surveyed for 100 topics of interest (for 2025) for building, maintaining, and growing Communities of Practice (CoP - post questions if you are not familiar with CoPs in practice)
My idea was how it might be possible to speed up the pace of achieving successful Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outcomes for the rest of this decade. (Is everyone familiar with the SDG Challenge (2015-2030) involving almost every country in the world?).
This morning (6/18/2025), my group of Community Builders met online to discuss Facilitation
Why? We believe that Good facilitation practices (convening methods, nudges, teaming across leaders) set the tone, build up a sense of belonging, and help the community/network attain its goals sustainably. We highlighted:
Incentivizing: Tools to incentivize knowledge-originators, and, generally, professionals to actively participate in a CoP and own it.
Inclusivity: Creating inclusive CoPs across geographies, languages, programs/departments and ways of knowing (diversity of experience, perspective).
Innovative approaches: Innovative ways to use technology during virtual events and asynchronous activities, such as online discussions, co-authoring, field trips.
With the 2025 ESRI User Conference happening now, I wanted to post this idea, hoping to bring together mappers and analyst seeking entryways for involvement in the SDG Challenge Soapbox to help improve SDG knowledge
Anyone interested in gaining real-time experience on SDG projects in the
