1. KDMD
History
2002 -
2012
Presented by:
The QED Group, LLC
August 8, 2012

2. 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

3. 2003
Knowledge Management
and Communications Task
Order Awarded
Training and Admin Task
Order Awarded
The first Scholarship Fund
designed and launched
Also in 2003:
FRED designed SARS spreads across Asia, North America,
and Europe
US and Britain launch war against Iraq
Norah Jones wins five Grammy awards

4. 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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7. 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

9. 2006
MD Learning Conference
First Road Show to
Sanabel (Morocco) and
MFC-Romania
Poverty and Conflict event
Microlinks Refresh
Connections rebranding
RAF training Also in 2006:
Saddam Hussein is executed
MRR awarded Donald Rumsfeld resigns
Field Support Launched Steve Irwin is killed by a stingray
IRG staff co-located at QED

10. 2007
Henrietta 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
Also in 2007:
SAGA Series Housing bubble bursts
Final Harry Potter book published
An Inconvenient Truth wins best
documentary

11. 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 Also in 2008:
Obama elected
Program Initiated
China hosts summer Olympics
Wall Street crashes

13. 2009
Raj 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 Also in 2009:
Rice Study eConsultation Miracle on the Hudson
Justice Sotomayor sworn in
First Drupal sites launched Michael Jackson dies

14. 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

16. 2011
Agrilinks launched PPL Complexity Event
FTF website redesign PPL Futures Symposium
launched
Microlinks 2.0 roadshow:
USAID releases new MFC Prague, Sanabel,
Evaluation Policy Cracking the Nut, Making
Cents, SEEP
GenDev buy-in
MFS Seminar Series
First Greenroom Interview
Also in 2011:
Diaspora Seminar series Arab Spring
begins Tsunami hits Japan
Osama bin Laden is killed
Ag Tech Evidence Summit Prince William and Kate Middleton wed

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