Spring 2007


Snippets

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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CGIAR Knowledge Sharing Activities

The ICT-KM Program's Knowledge Sharing (KS) Project recently conducted a call for proposals to support 12 pilot activities that will give CGIAR Centers, Programs, and System Office Units new opportunities to develop, apply, evaluate and share innovative knowledge sharing approaches to make their work more effective.

Funds totaling US$255,000 will be applied to the following areas:
1) Research projects and activities
2) Institutional change management
3) Virtual, institutional and research teams and communities

The pilot activities will help bridge the gap between researchers and end users, thereby increasing the uptake of research outputs; introduce KS into organizational change management projects of CGIAR Centers, Programs and System Units; and strengthen the collaborative efforts of virtual teams and communities including CGIAR Center staff and partners in the area of administration, research, and research support.

The Program has received a total of 35 proposals: 26 for research activities, eight involving institutional change management, and one for a virtual team. The review process will take place shortly.

Further information can be found at the KS website: http://www.ks-cgiar.org.


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