- CGMap: A New Revolution in Knowledge Management and Sharing
- The Triple-A Framework to Make Research Available and Useful
- Collaborative, Flexible and Fun
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- Knowledge, Education, and Learning Workshop, Maputo, December 08: Social Report Outline
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"ShareFair around the Corner"
The ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR, Bioversity International, FAO, IFAD and WFP are jointly organizing a three-day event entitled Knowledge Share Fair for Agricultural Development and Food Security to be held at FAO Headquarters on 20 - 22 January 2009.
ShareFair is divided into eight KS themes that participants can explore, from "K for influence and advocacy" to "K for me", and includes approximately 20 presentations on KS techniques and methods from CGIAR staff. The keynote speaker for the KS Fair is Geoff Parcell, co-author of "Learning to Fly" and considered by many to be the father of Knowledge Management.
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More than one year after the Inception workshop for the ICT-KM Program’s Knowledge Sharing Project, many of the Knowledge Sharing in Research (KsinR) Pilot Projects have completed their activities and piloting periods. From 17 to 18 November 2008, a synthesis workshop for the KSinResearch Project took place on the ILRI Campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and brought together all six Pilot Project Leaders to discuss their activities and capture lessons from their piloting activities.
The workshop used a number of key approaches to help facilitate review, discussions, evaluation and documentation. Day One of the workshop focused on review and reflection, while Day Two was aimed at a much more defined and in-depth evaluation process of the Projects and other KSinR activities towards learning.
The Projects were examined in terms of what happened, what didn’t happen, what went well, and what didn’t go well in terms of the changes planned and the strategies (KS approaches) used. Experiences were as diverse and as interesting as the Projects’ initially proposed approaches.
The Projects presented their most significant changes that had occurred while using knowledge sharing in their research projects or domains. The changes ranged from "improved links between hygiene and wastewater use in agriculture" to "empowerment of women farmers through the KS process" to "increased and improved interactions with user groups".
The review and selection of these stories were carried out by two people outside the direct KsinR Project using the fishbowl method.
Reports on all Synthesis Workshop exercises are available on the KS blog.
The above article was compiled from entries in the ICT-KM Program’s KS blog. Thanks to KSinR Project Leader Nadia Manning-Thomas for the original text.
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