Recently, choosing a content management systems (CMS) has become a hot topic among the CGIAR digerati.
Discussions on Sharepoint vs Drupal, Drupal vs WordPress, custom-built solutions vs Joomla are blossoming in online spaces, like flower buds in the warm springtime sun.
We at ICT-KM are frequently...
As Google announced a few months ago, Google Apps users will have access to an expanded set of Google services. This means Google Apps accounts will work more like regular Google Accounts (i.e. more tools will be available).
CGIAR staff have access to the Google Apps platform at cgxchange.org.
The...
Updated 16 December, 2010
While my colleagues in IT are reading this post and, with mouths agape, thinking “WHAT, you giving a plug to Open Source CMS?”, I still remain a hardcore champion of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) to suit the right needs and when the right resources and commitment...
Over the last decade we have all witnessed the radical impact that ICT is having in our lives both at home, throughout society, and professionally in how organizations now carry out their work. The nature of the CGIAR as a decentralized global operation presents many challenges that result in high need...
The CGIAR Information Technology Managers have been working together for many years now to provide a common set of IT services to meet multiple needs while exploring ways of working together. The members of this active community recently came together on the campus of the International Livestock Research...
Having supported and actively used Google Apps for almost two years now, we believe that Google has gone a long way towards improving the Google Apps, but at the same time, we feel they injure themselves with their own products.
We really love Google tools, we extensively use Google Earth, Google...
Over the years, videoconferencing has evolved from a bandwidth-consuming unreliable technology to one that consumes less bandwidth and is much more stable. Video has become more and more utilized as bandwidth has increased and prices have come down. As part of the Strategic Technologies for the CGIAR...
Many are surprised by the rapid emergence of mobile telephony and generally connected populations across the globe thanks to mobile devices. There are so many possible applications arising, but as usual the challenge is in understanding what is the right place and role of the technology in social,...
Among the main themes of the IAALD Congress, a special track was reserved to experiences with new technology tools for agricultural information. On Tuesday 27 afternoon, three papers were presented and discussed at the IAALD Congress:
the use and management of RSS feeds by a network of agricultural...
It’s difficult to ignore Social Software these days. Everywhere you turn there’s evidence that it’s playing an increasingly important role, both at home and in the workplace. The CGIAR IT managers also confirmed this view when they ranked Social Software #3 in the Strategic Technologies for the...
The ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR promotes and supports the use of information and communications technology (ICT) and knowledge management (KM) to improve the effectiveness of the CGIAR System's work on behalf of the poor in developing countries.
