kdmd history - 2012
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2002
Bush announces New Compact for Development
USAID initiated AMAP
AMAP IQC awarded
www.usaidmicro.org existed as the original MD office site
Also in 2002:
US invades Afghanistan
New England Patriots win the Super Bowl
Spider Man rules the box office
2003
Knowledge Management
and Communications Task
Order Awarded
Training and Admin Task
Order Awarded
The first Scholarship Fund
designed and launched
FRED designedAlso in 2003:
SARS spreads across Asia, North America,
and Europe
US and Britain launch war against Iraq
Norah Jones wins five Grammy awards
2004
Technical Assistance developed for MD modules for EG
training
microLINKS created
Communities Of Practice are designed
Connections newsletter starts
Microenterprise Results and Accountability Act passes
Congress
AMAP PASSN awarded
Also in 2004:
George W Bush re-elected
9/11 Commission report released
Indian Ocean tsunami
Martha Stewart goes to jail
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2005
microLINKS shut down (3 months) over 508 compliance
and Privacy and PRA
Poverty Frontiers launched
Value Chain Workshop Ethiopia
Breakfast and After Hours begin
Speaker's Corner established
First Seminar Innovations: Participants conference call into
seminars
Notes from the Field start
AARs begin Also in 2005:
Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast
Iraq holds elections
Million Dollar Baby wins best picture Oscar
2006
MD Learning Conference
First Road Show to
Sanabel (Morocco) and
MFC-Romania
Poverty and Conflict event
Microlinks Refresh
Connections rebranding
RAF training
MRR awarded
Field Support Launched
IRG staff co-located at QED
Also in 2006:
Saddam Hussein is executed
Donald Rumsfeld resigns
Steve Irwin is killed by a stingray
2007Henrietta Fore becomes 15th USAID administrator
AMAP VC Workshop (Cairo)
PASSN Conflict symposium
E-Gov KM Award win
ED Communications Strategy
AMAP BDS, FS, & EE end
Team starts using Basecamp
Team Wiki launched
Scholarship Fund ends
SAGA Series
Also in 2007:
Housing bubble bursts
Final Harry Potter book published
An Inconvenient Truth wins best
documentary
2008
KDMD begins
VC Workshop (Tanzania)
MIKAL CoP
GoTo Meeting replaces
conference calls
CIP meetings
E&E buy-in
EG buy-in
Grants Under Contract
Program Initiated
Also in 2008:
Obama elected
China hosts summer Olympics
Wall Street crashes
2009Raj Shah sworn in as 16th USAID Administrator
MFC Serbia pilot for video media capture activities
Decision to move to Drupal open source Software
GROOVE Network
Poverty in Conflict Learning Network
Micro Risk Alliance Learning Network
FS Share launches under FS BPA
AG/BFS buy-in
First EG training
Rice Study eConsultation
First Drupal sites launched
Also in 2009:
Miracle on the Hudson
Justice Sotomayor sworn in
Michael Jackson dies
2010
USAID Forward announced
PPL Bureau launched/ buys in
KMIC launched
WH, State, and USAID launch FTF initiative
Microlinks 2.0 and KDID Launched
Ag training begins
Share Fair (Addis)
Jamaica CoP launched Also in 2010:
Earthquake devastates Haiti
US forces withdraw from Iraq
Chile miners rescued
BP oil spills in Gulf
2011
Agrilinks launched
FTF website redesign
launched
USAID releases new
Evaluation Policy
GenDev buy-in
MFS Seminar Series
First Greenroom Interview
Diaspora Seminar series
begins
Ag Tech Evidence Summit
PPL Complexity Event
PPL Futures Symposium
Microlinks 2.0 roadshow:
MFC Prague, Sanabel,
Cracking the Nut, Making
Cents, SEEP
Also in 2011:
Arab Spring
Tsunami hits Japan
Osama bin Laden is killed
Prince William and Kate Middleton wed