Enrica Porcari

Enrica Porcari
When the CGIAR's first Chief Information Officer moved into her new office at The WorldFish Center in Penang, Malaysia, she felt an acute sense of isolation. Twelve time zones away from the USA and South America, the CGIAR newcomer felt cut off from the System that employed her. Far removed from her native Italy, temporarily computerless and with no colleagues at her host Center, she knew getting through the first week would probably be a challenge. Read more
I simply could not resist…....
Posted by Enrica Porcari in ICT-KM Program on 19 November 2009 | 1 Comment
… showing you the power of this image. I am totally convinced that “a picture is worth a thousand words”, I blogged about it recently. But this picture by Neil Palmer at CIAT is a real must-see. We talked about Neil’s talent as a photographer when we reported from the Knowledge...
AGCommons and RCMRD Announce Partnership...
Posted by Enrica Porcari in AgCommons on 18 November 2009 | No Comments
AGCommons (Agricultural Geospatial Commons) and RCMRD (Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development) are pleased to announce their partnership to establish AGCommons as an Africa-based initiative and jointly promote the use of geospatial information technology for the development of Africa. The...
Flipchart? No thanks! A picture is worth...
Posted by Enrica Porcari in AgCommons on 13 November 2009 | No Comments
Seeing is believing is the name of one of our AGCommons supported projects, one that seeks to demonstrate the value of very high resolution imagery to help scale up a few quick-win productivity enhancement technologies in 10 smallholder communities across Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali and Niger. The project...
Check out our new AGCommons Video...
Posted by Enrica Porcari in AgCommons, ICT-KM Program, KS Workshop, Knowledge Sharing on 1 November 2009 | 5 Comments
AGCommons a CGIAR-delivered project using maps and other local information to help farmers in rural Africa In Africa, for Africa, with Africa.
NEW! A tangible help to improve access t...
Posted by Enrica Porcari in ICT-KM Program, KS Course, KS Toolkit, Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Sharing in Research on 25 October 2009 | No Comments
The AAA concept is not new to the readers of our blog. We have been committed to increasing availability, accessibility and applicability of our research, what we call our Public Information Goods (PIGs) in many ways. From developing a framework, to working with centers to benchmark their current “AAA...
Welcome to our new Home...
Posted by Enrica Porcari in ICT-KM Program on 20 October 2009 | 1 Comment
Welcome to the ICT-KM Program’s shiny, new website! It’s been months in the making and has involved many hours of hard work from a team of dedicated individuals, but we have achieved what we set out to do: create an interactive, easy-to-navigate, content-centered site.  Whether this is your...
How will information, knowledge, ICTs an...
Posted by Enrica Porcari in Featured Articles, ICT-KM Program, Knowledge Sharing on 11 October 2009 | 2 Comments
We just concluded the CGIAR ICT annual meeting and the Alliance Deputies meeting on the shape of the Shared Services in the new consortium… . More on the results of these meetings later… To prepare for the meetings, I looked at the proposed “Strategy and Results Framework” to...
Hats off to Andy Jarvis and his team: Go...
Posted by Enrica Porcari in Geospatial Information, ICT-KM Program on 10 October 2009 | No Comments
Andy Jarvis is not a new face on our blog or with our program. Andy is a young scientist who leads the CIAT’s Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) program, he is an active member of the CGIAR-Consortium for Spatial Information (CSI) and a self-professed “promiscuos geographer” Not...
Nemo Profeta in Patria… Results of...
Posted by Enrica Porcari in Featured Articles, ICT-KM Program, Knowledge Sharing on 9 October 2009 | No Comments
Finally, I’m happy to share with you the results of the ICT-KM Program’s recent external review. Although I was a little nervous about the actual review process, not to mention the review report itself, I feel my team and I have all benefited from having outsiders look at our work. We have been forced...
ICT-KM Newsletter: Results of external r...
Posted by Enrica Porcari in ICT-KM Program, Newsletter on 30 September 2009 | No Comments
The ICT-KM Newsletter for 4th quarter of 2009 is now online. Winds of change are blowing everywhere these days, and in this newsletter we tell a few stories of change. Enjoy! In the 4th quarter issue: Nemo Profeta in Patria… Results of Our External Review We wanted a bicycle, so we have to get...

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