- CG-MAP: Easing Center Workloads
- Consortium Opens up Journals
- Extended Projects Fulfilling Objectives
- IP06: The Way Ahead
- CGIAR Knowledge Sharing Activities
- Web2ForDev 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 by clicking here.
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
Events in Detail 
ICT-KM Homepage
Welcome to the first quarterly issue of ICT-KM News!
Based on feedback from the readership of our old monthly newsletter, we are supplementing our new quarterly updates with short, community-specific, monthly news items. These will ensure that you are kept informed of developments that are relevant to you and your community while also receiving an overall picture of the Program’s progress.
In this issue, you can read about an application that will make the development and submission of MTPs as easy as ABC, learn about the latest plans for the Program, and find out about new Knowledge Sharing activities, and collaborative efforts involving CGIAR Information Managers.
We also highlight a few conferences and workshops that will see professionals from across the CGIAR coming together to share ideas and look at new ways of working together.
Enrica Porcari
Chief Information Officer
CGIAR
Main News
CG-MAP: Easing Center Workloads
What if your Center didn’t have to spend precious hours inputting information related to projects and plans just to have to do it all over again next year? What if generating reports about the research being carried out in your Center was as easy as ABC? What if your Center could also have instant access to information and reports about the research being undertaken across the CGIAR System?
And what if your Center could have all of that at no extra cost?
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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.
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Extended Projects Fulfilling Objectives
Of the 14 projects under the ICT-KM Program’s 2004 Investment Plan, ten came to a successful conclusion in 2006 and the others continue to be implemented. These four projects have all faced various challenges including: changing priorities at the Centers; having to find a single IT solution for multiple locations; different needs and approaches to business practices across the CGIAR System; transient project leaders; and changing timelines.
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IP06: The Way Ahead
The ICT-KM Program’s 2006 Investment Plan (IP06), which covers Phase II of the Program, focuses on providing follow-on support for several critical, System-wide activities that were started under the 2004 Investment Plan (IP04). Only by consolidating the gains of these activities can all CGIAR staff and partners benefit from their potential returns. Efforts have also been initiated to ensure that the necessary human resources are in place to enable the Program to effectively fulfill its objectives and plan for future investments.
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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.
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Web2ForDev 2007
Although Web2ForDev 2007 isn’t due to kick off until September 2007, the initial response to the international conference has been overwhelming. As a result, it has been necessary to extend the closing date for the submission of proposal papers for conference presentations by several weeks.
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