Simone Staiger

Simone Staiger
Simone Staiger-Rivas is a Knowledge Sharing specialist. She is a trained social communicator with 13 years’ experience in the coordination of international communications projects. Her interest lies in the enhancement of collaboration in institutional settings that contribute to organizational learning and change in agricultural research for development. Simone is based at CIAT, Colombia.
Knowledge Share Fair: Latin America and ...
Posted by Simone Staiger in Events, Featured Articles, ICT-KM Program, Knowledge Share Fair Cali on 2 February 2010 | 1 Comment
We are pleased to announce the Knowledge Share Fair Latin America and Caribbean which will take place in Cali, Colombia, 25 – 27 May 2010. Focus In January 2009, Rome-based agencies working in agriculture, development and food security joined forces to co-organize the first Knowledge “Share Fair”...
New ILAC brief: Working in virtual envir...
Posted by Simone Staiger in CGXchange, Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Sharing in Research, Online Collaboration on 9 December 2009 | No Comments
by Simone Staiger-Rivas, Peter Shelton, Petr Kosina and Nancy White Download the brief from the ILAC Web site It was a great pleasure to work with Peter, Petr, and Nancy to produce this brief which is part of the Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) series. The brief was written during the Institutional...
ICT-KM knowledge sharing: scaling up and...
Posted by Simone Staiger in Knowledge Sharing on 20 November 2009 | 1 Comment
I haven’t been blogging for some time here at ICT-KM, but the recent excellent interview about our ICT-KM blog story reminded me that I really wanted to come back and talk about recent KS initiatives and interventions that are worthwhile mentioning. We haven’t been lazy over the last months. Some...
News from the Ongoing Social Media in In...
Posted by Simone Staiger in Events, Knowledge Sharing, Social Media, Social Media Workshop on 16 September 2009 | No Comments
Thanks to Nancy White, workshop facilitator for sharing this update. The “Social Media in International Development” Workshop kicked off on September 7th with four CGIAR members, two World Bank staffers, a representative from a Dutch NGO and from an Australian university. With this diversity,...
ICT-KM Supports the Global Conference on...
Posted by Simone Staiger in Events, ICT-KM Program, Knowledge Sharing on 25 August 2009 | No Comments
The ICT-KM Program is supporting the GCARD process, starting with the e-consultations that should contribute a great deal in enhancing the development value of research. Organized by GFAR, the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) is more than just a Conference – it’s...
Announcement: Social Media for Developme...
Posted by Simone Staiger in Events, ICT-KM Program, Knowledge Sharing, Social Media, Social Media Workshop on 9 July 2009 | 5 Comments
“Social media is using the Internet to collaborate, share information, and have a conversation about ideas, and causes we care about, powered by web based tools.” – [We Media] Background From the learnings from the successful pilot (See blog posts about the event), and second  Social Media Online...
Social Media Workshop Blog Outline...
Posted by Simone Staiger in Events, ICT-KM Program, KS Course, KS Workshop, Reports, Social Media on 23 June 2009 | No Comments
Here is the flow of blog posts that document our recent social media workshop: Workshop Announcement Introductions Summary: A Mind Map Conference Call 1A Summary Conference Call 1B Summary The Challenge of introducing new tools: About attitudes and preferences The web site is not the community: it’s...
Updates from Social Media Workshop 2 (VI...
Posted by Simone Staiger in Events, ICT-KM Program, KS Course, KS Workshop, Knowledge Sharing on 23 June 2009 | No Comments
You Mean Unfinished is Good? Yes! In the very recently released final Institutional KS Project report, one of the lessons I am sharing is the one about Facilitation: Facilitate: We are not experts, but facilitators for research for development. Hence, the effort to cultivate networks and relationships...
Updates from Social Media Workshop 2 (V)...
Posted by Simone Staiger in Events, ICT-KM Program, KS Course, KS Toolkit, KS Workshop, Knowledge Sharing on 19 June 2009 | No Comments
Social media workshop evaluation We, the workshop facilitators invited participants to review the activities through comments on the workshop platform, as well as through an online survey. We have set up surveys for all the workshops in the past. We did our own facilitator debrief as well. Here are some...
Institutional Knowledge Sharing Releases...
Posted by Simone Staiger in ICT-KM Program, Knowledge Sharing, Reports on 18 June 2009 | 1 Comment
As you can see from my previous three posts, I am wrapping up the Institutional KS project. This doesn’t mean that ICT-KM stops working on KS realted issues, far from that. However, as the project ended, we are going through a process of final evaluations, reporting and sharing of the results....

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