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ShareFair Cali Roundup

Posted on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 00:46

The recently concluded ShareFair in Cali was a huge success and generated a number of posts on the ICT-KM Program’s blog. To help give you a more complete picture of this week-long event, we’ve consolidated the various posts for easy reading.

New publication: Learning to share knowledge for global agricultural progress

Posted on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 10:04

In 2008 the ICT-KM Program’s Institutional Knowledge Sharing project led by CIAT undertook the design and delivery of a series of successful knowledge sharing workshops.
Together with Nancy White, we conceptualized a 3 phase event (online, face-to-face, online) with the ambition to help CGIAR and partner staff to reflect, learn and practice knowledge sharing principles, methods and tools. A group of participants of the very first edition of this workshop wrote this paper in order to document, share and analyses the experience.

Knowledge Share Fair: Latin America and Caribbean at CIAT, Cali, Colombia, 25 – 27 May 2010

Posted on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 07:51

We are pleased to announce the Knowledge Share Fair Latin America and Caribbean which will take place in Cali, Colombia, 25 – 27 May 2010.

CIAT’s Knowledge Sharing Week 09: A Social Media Kick-off

Posted on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 17:02

This year CIAT’s annual meeting, also known as KS Week is … unfortunately a 6-day power point event but I must admit that the level of discussion is good and that people seem engaged.
The innovation comes this time from the documentation and reporting side. The visit from ICT-KM’s Enrica Porcari and Peter Ballantyne to promote availability and accessibility of research results came timely to get CIAT’s communications unit started in the use of social media tools.

CIAT – AA and social media gain momentum…

Posted on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 16:15

I write this from CIAT, where at the Knowledge Sharing Week of the Institute we have been presenting approaches to increase availability and accessibility of CIAT’s research outputs. CIAT was the second center where we carried out AAA benchmarking.

CIAT: Knowledge sharing weeks goes Web2.0

Posted on Mon, 05/18/2009 - 12:18

CIAT’s Knowledge Sharing Week (KSW09) started today here in Cali, Colombia. This is one of the Center’s most important annual events, gathering scientists from Africa, Asia, and Central America, and providing a unique opportunity to exchange and discuss experiences with colleagues at headquarters.

The promiscuous geographer….an interview with Andy Jarvis

Posted on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 08:18

Andy JarvisAn interview with Andy Jarvis, agricultural geographer, CIAT and Bioversity
Q: You say you have two “mantras.” What are they?

Google Maps, Africa, farmer productivity, land ownerwhip, transparency…

Posted on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 00:58

Google Maps has just arrived in Kenya, where it’s feared that mapping the region could inflame inter-tribal tensions over land ownership.
That’s one of the issues that came out of our meeting in Kenya last week: WhereCampAfrica.. But there is a bright side to this!

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