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Improving
Existing Products and Lines Financing Innovative Products
on Demand
Supporting Analysis
Improving
Existing Products and Lines: 
Projects
in this area will follow from existing Bank and other donors’
knowledge and experience. Thus, typically, they will tend
to follow existing trajectories suggested by the experience
of recent and current efforts at developing governance/public
sector reform tools. Current priorities are to:
Build
on early donor efforts
This
will emphasize the improvement of existing websites and
toolkits that the Bank and other donors have developed to
share governance knowledge via improving existing major
governance knowledge (GK) websites, creating local-content/local-language
websites attached to the existing major websites, providing
better links between major GK websites, and developing better
GK tools.
Develop
mechanisms for sharing knowledge between practitioners
Much
discussion of governance is abstract and theoretical. This
priority area will encourage the development of mechanisms
for practitioner-to-practitioner dialogue on what really
works in improving governance via preparing internet-based
case-study material, and Internet-based discussion groups
and moderated debates on key governance topics.
Financing
Innovative Products on Demand:
Project proposals are encouraged from outside partners, as
well as Bank staff, which are consistent with the program’s
criteria of new tools, media and learning, but which are more
experimental than typical projects financed under ‘Improving
Innovative Products and Lines’. A proposer from outside
the Bank is expected to have a sponsor inside the Bank.
Supporting
Analysis:
Given
the innovative and experimental nature of the GKSP, a series
of activities will be undertaken under a third focus area
that explores what information is out there? and how we learn
Studies
planned within this focus area include a paper on how new
media and new tools interact with the way people and organizations
learn, and a paper on the use and limitations of web-based
and other communications technologies and appropriate marketing
strategies and tools, in the context of developing countries.
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