Tania Jordan

Tania Jordan
I'm a Computer Science Engineer with emphasis in Business Administration and specialist in Networks and Communications; currently working for the ICT-KM program as Technical Coordinator for the CIO and the CGXchange and CGMAP projects. Read more about me in my profile
Knowledge Sharing- Getting Together to D...
Posted by Tania Jordan in CGXchange, Events, Knowledge Sharing on 26 October 2009 | 3 Comments
The KM4DEV Rome group is organizing a one-day event on Thursday, October 29 (08.30 – 18.30), hosted at the Headquarters of the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), entitled ‘Knowledge Sharing: Getting Together to Do It Better’. There will be sessions on common issues related to Knowledge...
2nd Wiki Training session at FAO...
Posted by Tania Jordan in CGXchange, ICT-KM Program, Online Collaboration on 27 August 2009 | 1 Comment
Last week I blogged about the 1st Training Session at FAO and it was such a success that they repeated the training session on Wikis again yesterday for those people that didn’t get the chance to register last week. Tania Jordan, Gauri Salokhe, Romolo Tassone Usually after the training sessions,...
The question begs: GTalk, Skype or both?...
Posted by Tania Jordan in CGXchange, ICT Developments, ICT-KM Program on 10 August 2009 | 9 Comments
CGIAR staff frequently use online tools to communicate with colleagues and partners around the globe. Many of these tools have made a significant, positive impact on the way staff work by facilitating communication and information sharing. Until recently, some CGIAR Centers used Microsoft’s Live...
Useful Tips for Collaborative Writing wi...
Posted by Tania Jordan in CGXchange, ICT-KM Program, Online Collaboration on 3 July 2009 | No Comments
Lately, we’ve been receiving many requests from people who would like to write documents collaboratively. This is not the first time we write about this topic: Meena published a general overview of collaborative writing approaches, and Silvia Renn shared tips on writing proposals with Google Docs. Having...
CGIAR receives Google Earth Pro licenses...
Posted by Tania Jordan in ICT-KM Program on 16 March 2009 | 1 Comment
Towards the end of February 2009, the Google Earth Outreach grants program approved a number of Google Earth Pro licenses for the CGIAR Centers. This significant donation will facilitate the CGIAR Consortium of Spatial Information (CSI) group in communicating timely geographic information to the world. Thanks...
Dgroups 2.0 is here!...
Posted by Tania Jordan in CGXchange, ICT-KM Program, KS Toolkit on 12 February 2009 | 1 Comment
Dgroups is as an online platform for groups and communities interested in international development that allows users to follow email discussions either through email or by logging onto the website and accessing the ‘discussions’ area for a community. The CGIAR centers have been using Dgroups...
Spam/Viruses in the CGIAR dropped by 11....
Posted by Tania Jordan in ICT-KM Program on 21 January 2009 | No Comments
In the quarter of September 2008, approximately 29 million messages were processed at CGNET (our mail provider). 90% of those messages were spam and 5% were viruses (read more about the  Sept 2008 quarter), while in December 2008, more than 18 million messages were processed, and of these, about 90...
CGIAR Google Apps Case Study...
Posted by Tania Jordan in ICT-KM Program on 21 July 2008 | 1 Comment
In efforts to increase efficiency and innovation, the CGIAR decided to explore alternatives to our current email infrastructure through a Case study, starting with Google Applications. The case study was launched formally on June 24, 2008 and currently there are more than 300 participants from 14 CGIAR...