Organisations all over the world are adapting to the pandemic by embracing remote work and virtual collaboration. But can you really hold effective online workshops and participatory meetings in this new environment? This series of videos on effective online meetings and accompanying article offer some helpful strategies, such as encouraging meaningful engagement and rewarding attentive participation, as well as a detailed guide with best practices for digital workshops.

With face-to-face interactions now increasingly difficult, and unlikely to be possible in the same way even after we get over the current crisis, we’re challenged to discover and utilize new ways of working. - Simon Cooper, Green Commodities Programme, UNDP

Click here to read the full article and watch the interview with Kal Joffres, an advisor on strategic communications at UNDP who also teaches Design Across Borders at Stanford’s d.school.