What Are the Challenges for KS Within and Among our Organizations?

We started day two of our workshop with a conversation about KS within and among development organizations: What are the challenges? We used a fish bowl dynamic for this session and here are some of the issues that came up:

• How can we know what Knowledge we need to share in order to “get it right” and avoid information overload?
• The importance of partnerships to reach farmers
• The potential of FAO / FARA collaboration to facilitate use and access of information
• KS with farmers: Most of us work for level of extensionists and policy makers, or universities. Dady from FARA shared their beginning experience with Innovation Platforms, CIFOR on conflict resolution
• How to measure impact of KS? Partially through SNA
• What are the incentives for KS and the important role of KS champions.
• Obstacles to KS: Evaluation and impact measurements based on publications, internal competition. There is a paradox with our mission to produce Global Public Goods.
• About creating a KS culture: We share more outside our organizations than inside (result of a FAO study)