In November 08 I posted: CGIAR, Change and another way to look at it! where I used Wordle to give an visual representation of what people were discussing in the CGIAR Change management blog. I thought I would use Wordle again and use the feeds from the ShareFair blog on ICT-KM A picture is worth…
Archive for January, 2009
ShareFair 09 is over….first impressions.
The ShareFair 09 has just come to a close. Months of preparations, negotiations, discussions, worrying whether this was a good decision, will people come, will they understand?…. When Mrs. Williams, Assistant Director General for the Knowledge Department in FAO declared the ShareFair closed, I had shivers down my back, and more so when the crowd…
Share Fair Session On: KS for Teams
I presented the KS workshop at the session on KS for Teams. I was surprised and perhaps a bit disappointed that the session focused so much on tools and less on KS and teamwork as a process and the principles of it. Here is a summary of the session: The first presenter, Benoit Thierry from…
Facilitation buzz
After a mad dash through the Colosseo to get into FAO this morning, I barely have time to acknowledge that this will probably be the last time I use this route for this week anyway – Sharefair 09 ends today. On that note, my first task is to facilitate discussions on ‘Assessment Methodologies and Learning for Policy-making’. A quick check-in with the FAO presenters…
Share Fair comes to an end: Notes from the Closing ceremony
Peter Ballantayne, given the honour of leading us through the closing to this exciting event, told us that we will be getting an idea of what information is already available on the Share Fair and then we will have a conversation. He started by running through some key highlights (on powerpoint!) from the Share Fair:…
The FAO Official Representatives Website: A KS Workshop Outcome and Achievement for One of Our Alumni
I was very happy to attend the Share Fair session where the FAO Official Representatives Web site was presented. Not that I have much to do with its content. But the person who designed and developed the site, Maria Grazia Bovo, was one of our alumni in the first KS workshop. When we started the…
The Naked Truth about Knowledge Management….
Call me old-fashioned…but if there is something I want to know…I ask the expert. I always believe there is someone out there who has an answer to my questions! So here we are at the Knowledge ShareFair, an exceptionally succesful event (forgive my biased views!) where there are lots of people I could ask help…
Learning for Policy-Makers – a Peer Assist
In a Peer Assist facilitated by Meena Arivananthan (ICT-KM/WorldFish), FAO staff shared their experiences on how they’ve worked to translate global climate change models into adaptation activities at farm-level in Bangladesh, and asked workshop participants for their input. Stephan Baas, Claudia Hiepe and Selvaraju Ramasamy described the basic project Livelihood Adaptation to Climate Change in…
Exploring 'Toolkits for Capacity Building on the Ground' at the Share Fair
In this session two toolkits are being presented: The Education for Rural People Toolkit (FAO) RuralInvest (FAO) Starting with 10 minute showcase of each of the toolkits. The Education for Rural People Toolkit (ERP): many people are illiterate little formal education possibilities around the world, especially with rural populations want to empower rural people to…
Day 3 of the Share Fair-looking at "Assessment methodologies and learning for policymaking'
Today is Thursday 22nd January- and the third and final day of the Share Fair. For the first session of the day I am attending the session on ‘Assessment methodologies and learning for policymaking’ being convened in the India Room. The session invovles the presentation of a group from FAO including Stephan Baas, Claudia Hiepe…