ICT-KM Program


I simply could not resist….

I simply could not resist….
… 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...

Blogging in real life: an interview with ICT-KM at Blogtips.org

Blogging in real life: an interview with ICT-KM at Blogtips.org
Peter Casier, the relentless mastermind behind Blogtips.org, interviewed Enrica and myself about our Website revamp. The history, the team, the decisions, the challenges… it’s all in there. And it was great to have the opportunity to reflect on the project and how we went about it. So enjoy...

Want your research outputs to fly?

Want your research outputs to fly?
It’s been awhile since my last blog post – been playing detective in a very interesting work task. Early this year the ICT-KM program offered CGIAR centers the opportunity to have their research outputs put to the test. What test, you wonder? When we in the CGIAR say the work we do, belongs to everyone...

Check out our new AGCommons Video

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 to our research: or how to make our pigs fly!

NEW! A tangible help to improve access to our research: or how to make our pigs fly!
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...

The Community Knowledge Workers model – A success story

The Community Knowledge Workers model – A success story
“Melinda and I believe that helping the poorest smallholder farmers grow more and get it to market is the world’s single most powerful lever for reducing hunger and poverty.” – Bill Gates. One of the five AGCommons’ Quick Win Projects, Community Level Crop Disease Surveillance,...

Welcome to our new Home

Welcome to our new Home
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...

AGCommons at Africa GIS Conference 2009 in Kampala

AGCommons at Africa GIS Conference 2009 in Kampala
AGCommons, the program led by the ICT-KM Program to provide location-specific (geospatial) information to smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa with the goal of improving productivity and livelihoods, will be present at the Africa GIS Conference 2009 in Kampala, Uganda (25-30 October), to inform...

How will information, knowledge, ICTs and related areas fare in the new CGIAR?

How will information, knowledge, ICTs and related areas fare in the new CGIAR?
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: Good scientists, decent human beings

Hats off to Andy Jarvis and his team: Good scientists, decent human beings
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...

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