Spring 2007



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A Symantec Success Story

Symantec, a global company that provides organizations and businesses with online and IT security solutions, is featuring the CGIAR on its website as one of its success stories. Read how the company's services have helped Centers block more than 55,000,000 spam and 1,200,000 viruses per year by clicking here.

New Team Member

The ICT-KM Program is happy to announce that Shawn Landersz has recently joined the team as a part-time Program Assistant. While continuing his work with Bioversity's Administration Group, Shawn will assist the team in implementing System-wide projects. More about Shawn in the next issue of ICT-KM News.

CGVlibrary Makes Ex Libris News

The CGVlibrary continues to make waves with a mention in the Ex Libris newsletter. Find out what the global pioneer in software solutions and information centers has to say about the CGIAR's System-wide library at http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/ newsletter/?cat=113&parent=103

ICARDA Awards

The recipients of ICARDA's "Staff of the Year 2006" awards include Hashem Abed, Scientific Databases Specialist, and members of the Network & Desktop Support Team (Colin Webster, Michael Sarkisian, Mousa Tawaifi, Basel Gozem and Waddah Khairallah), some of whom were also actively involved in the ICT-KM Program's Enterprise Security & Business Continuity Project. Kudos to all!


Upcoming Events

KM4Dev Workshop

Egypt-Bound

G&D Get-Together

ICTD Conference in Bangalore


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Consortium Opens up Journals

Collaborative efforts involving Information Managers from the CGIARLIS Consortium have resulted in joint subscriptions that give participating Centers access to 98 journals and one agricultural database. Purchased separately, these journals would have cost the Centers an additional US$1.4 million. As it was, each Center was able to stay within its library budget for 2006.

Publications include CABDirect, Science Online, Plant and Soil, and Theoretical and Applied Genetics, to name a few. To access these publications, please go to the CGVlibrary.


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