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...

Vietnamese Visions: An interview with Natasja Sheriff from the WorldFish Centre about the KSinR Pilot Project – ‘Applying KS tools to impact monitoring and evaluation’ Human beings have survived through adaptation. And for centuries people have come up with ingenious ways of coping with environmental...

Blueprinting priorities: An interview with David Raitzer from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) on the KSinR Pilot Project – ‘Shared learning to enhance research priority assessment practices’ Money is hard to come by – especially these days. So when you secure research funding...

Never underestimate a quiet farmer: An interview with Alessandra Galiè from the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) about the KSinR Pilot Project – ‘The International Farmers’ Conference’ They say you can learn a lot from sitting on a thorn. Apparently, when...

Journalist interviewing Alessandra Galie from ICARDA on the KSinR Pilot Project she has been working on During the Synthesis workshop for the Knowledge Sharing in Research Project held in November 2008, a professional journalist participated in the workshop to capture what was going at the workshop,...

I (Nadia Manning-Thomas, KSinR Project Leader) was amongst the many that participated in the recently convened CGIAR Science Forum, June 16th and 17th in Wageningen, The Netherlands. The Science Forum was well organised by the Science Council, The Alliance of CGIAR Centres, GFAR and Wageningen UR and...

Sharing knowledge can save lives: An interview with Phillip Amoah and Tonya Schuetz  from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) on the KSinR Pilot Project- ‘The Knowledge Sharing approach to safe food’ A lack of knowledge in Ghana can get you thrown in jail or even killed. Such are...

The CGIAR Science Forum was recently held in Wageningen, The Netherlands, 16th and 17th June 2009. As part of the Science Forum, a number of workshops were convened on key topics. This included: Workshop 3. ICTs transforming agricultural science, research and technology generation I (Nadia Manning-Thomas,...

Here’s a test: Take a look at the bookmarks of your favorite websites and blog sites, and tell me how often you browse them? If your answer is not often enough, allow me to let you in on a little secret – it’s called “RSS” in geekspeak, and “newsfeeds” in English. If you’d...

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...