ICT-KM Program

How your work gets richer with Social Media: the case of “Millions Fed”

Submitted by ICT-KM on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 11:11

Antonella’s post on the experience of the CGIAR at COP 15 documented how social media helps your communication efforts.
Key message: if you want your work to reach wider audiences, to get enriched by their contributions and to be as visible as possible- You can’t go wrong with social media; something the ICT-KM Program has been actively promoting for a while now. And there’s a battery of tools out there that can help you get the job done. But you need to use them in a smart way….

Virtualization 2.0 (#2 CGIAR Strategic Technologies Series)

Submitted by ICT-KM on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 03:00

As I said when I posted the Top#1 Strategic Technology post on Storage Infrastructure a few weeks ago, a properly functioning Storage infrastructure goes hand in hand with an efficient ‘Virtual‘ environment, so it actually makes sense that the Virtualization 2.0 topic ranked #2 in the Strategic Technologies for the CGIAR in 2010.

Call for proposals for the Knowledge Share Fair in Cali, May 2010

Submitted by ICT-KM on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 05:21

[Post disponible en Español]
The call for proposals for the Knowledge Share Fair, to be held in Cali, Colombia, 25-27 May 2010, is now open.
Applications should be submitted in Spanish or English. In case of submissions in Spanish, we encourage you to provide an abstract in English.
Download the call for proposals:

Social media and institutional communications: the CGIAR experience at COP15

Submitted by ICT-KM on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 18:01

When I blogged about social media and agriculture at COP15 back in December, the adventure of the CGIAR and its partners at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen had just begun. It was an exciting time with the tag “Copenhagen” gaining the top 10 trending topics on the opening day of the Conference. In the following days, sitting in Rome and watching the #cop15 tag on Twitter was like being in the middle of the crowds demonstrating in the streets. But there was a lot going on behind the scenes and away from the TV cameras.

Google Maps, Open Source and Plotting Ongoing Research: Demonstrating Innovation

Submitted by ICT-KM on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 10:59

It is the perfect time to celebrate CGX 2.0’s birthday by talking about the tangible differences made by ICT-KM’s choice to shift away from proprietary technical architectures and move towards a more ample and sustainable technical landscape. This technical landscape is epitomized by what is called Enterprise 2.0, “a system of web-based technologies that provide rapid and agile collaboration, information sharing, emergence and integration capabilities in the extended enterprise” (

Storage Infrastructure (#1 CGIAR Strategic Technologies Series)

Submitted by ICT-KM on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 06:27

We recently published the results of the Strategic Technologies for the CGIAR in 2010, so as promised; this article is about the Top 1 Strategic Technology selected by the IT Managers and the Chief Information Officer for 2010: Storage Infrastructure.
But what is Storage infrastructure and why was this technology selected as Top 1?

Show me the goods! The Research map is out!

Submitted by ICT-KM on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 04:32

If by “goods” you mean our Global Public Goods, and more specifically, the research projects of the CGIAR in Africa, the CGIAR Research Map for Africa – does just that!

That’s the way I like it!

Submitted by ICT-KM on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 08:50

Well, well, well… It seems that our efforts to encourage people to learn more about what we do are starting to pay off…
A sneak preview of last month’s analytics for some of the sites we manage?

And take a look at the interest AGCommons , our “location intelligence” program is generating!

Feria del Conocimiento América Latina y el Caribe – en Cali, Colombia, 25-27 de mayo del 2010

Submitted by ICT-KM on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 12:08

Enfoque

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

Submitted by ICT-KM 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.