Wondering how high resolution imagery can help smallholder farmers? The SIBWA – Seeing is Believing West Africa, one of the AGCommons quick win projects, blog series can help you find the answer. VHRIex2: Mindsets & Skillsets to entrust smallholders with Very High Resolution Imagery- A manifesto against top-down approaches REMEMBER ROME? They conquered Greece (with their…
Archive for September, 2009
ICT-KM Newsletter: Results of external review, new ways to access our research and much more
The ICT-KM Newsletter for 4th quarter of 2009 is now online. Winds of change are blowing everywhere these days, and in this newsletter we tell a few stories of change. Enjoy! In the 4th quarter issue: Nemo Profeta in Patria… Results of Our External Review We wanted a bicycle, so we have to get pedaling!…
A fusion of iTunes and Last.fm: can Mendeley change the face of science?
AAA is not a new concept to those who read our blog, nor our tireless efforts to increase the availability of and access to our research. Just today here in Cali, at the CIAT campus I have been discussing a paper written by our colleague Edith Hesse about CIAT’s efforts to increase the availability and…
We’ve come a long way – An interview with Shwu Jiau Teoh
In the beginning … Way back in the early 1980s, there was no email in the CGIAR. When scientists wanted to collaborate with each other, they did so using the technology available at that time: phone, fax, telex and cable. Some of these communication methods were often slow and unreliable, and always expensive – factors that…
Francesca Pelloni – Returning with a Passion
Life is a balancing act. Finding an equilibrium that works for you, your family and your friends is often difficult to achieve. And no one knows this better than AGCommons Project Officer Francesca Pelloni. After a five-year hiatus of sorts from the hectic world of IT project management, she is back with a well-grounded enthusiasm…
News from the Ongoing Social Media in International Development Workshop
Thanks to Nancy White, workshop facilitator for sharing this update. The “Social Media in International Development” Workshop kicked off on September 7th with four CGIAR members, two World Bank staffers, a representative from a Dutch NGO and from an Australian university. With this diversity, the group was off to a great start in their work…
What makes us proud this month?
Well, while the summer heat was blessing the northern emisphere, and many were enjoying some well deserved rest, the ICT-KM program team continued to work…. and I wanted to share some of the things we did in the month of August that make us very proud! Reshaping Agricultural Research and Innovation Our Simone Staiger-Rivas is…