Dear Colleagues,

Collaborate, Create, Communicate..

Happy New Year to you all!

2005 has been a year of real advances for the ICT-KM Program, from the good progress made in the implementation of the projects in the 2004 Investment Plan, to the successful launch of CGXchange and all its components at the AGM 2005.  In addition, we also saw continuing collaborative activities with the IT Managers and Information Managers, significant financial savings from system-wide purchases, and strengthened communities of practice. An annual report is available on the ictkm.cgiar.org site at http://ictkm.cgiar.org/html/document.html.

2006 and Beyond

The most important objective at this point is to ensure that the Program continues to be relevant and consistent with our mandate and vision.

While 2006 will be a year of consolidation for many of the activities that we started last year, there are many areas we will start afresh: from expanding the membership and mandate of our advisory group, to continuing to extend our reach to the partners, to advocating the work of our projects, to getting ready for a whole set of new activities in 2007..

While launching and guiding such an ambitious and geographically dispersed initiative has not been without its challenges, we believe the significant progress made to date provides a solid foundation for our future plans. This progress is the result of the hard work of many individuals - CGIAR Management, the Advisory Group, Project Coordinators and project teams. We thank those who have invested so much energy into making our vision a reality. A 2006 Plan is available on our website at http://ictkm.cgiar.org/html/document.html.

ICT-KM 2004 Investment Plan Updates

The ICT-KM 2004 Investment Plan, which was launched in April 2004, has shown real progress in 2005. In 2006, the Program aims to ensure that the third year of implementation of the Investment Plan continues to show good progress while a number of projects will come to closure.

ICT-KM 2006 Investment Plan  

The ICT-KM 2006 Investment Plan proposes work in two areas: providing further support to consolidate the gains to date of activities started under the first plan; and extend its focus beyond the CGIAR Centers' infrastructure to improving broader access to scientific data.  

Active Directory deployment and Exchange 2003 Upgrade Project

All the 15 CGIAR Centers have successfully migrated to Microsoft Active Directory and upgraded to Exchange 2003.  This marks the successful end of our upgrade project.     

Upcoming Events

The Enterprise Security and Business Continuity Second Regional Workshop and the launch of CGXchange at ILRI and ICRAF coming up next...   

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Collaborate, Create, Communicate...

this is the motto of the ICT-KM Program. We believe that by expanding the CGIAR's opportunities to work together and communicate we will produce better science to help poor in developing countries.

Your comments are especially welcome. Please visit the Website, http://ictkm.cgiar.org/ or write to ictkm@cgiar.org with comments and/or ideas for the next monthly update.

Working together for a better future,

Enrica