Knowledge Sharing

The famous announcement from The London Underground- The Tube- tells people to “Mind The Gap” … But while this phrase is used for a very practical safety reason so that people don’t fall into the gap between the train and the platform-this could also be used to reflect other types...

Making waves – that is radio waves – was one of the pathways explored and made use of in the effort to make ag knowledge travel from the AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair. To continue making (radio) waves, it is good to reflect.  This post is based on a report by Gladson Makowa, Media and Communication...

Yesterday, as I boarded a flight to begin my 12th duty travel of the year, a thought crossed my mind… Do we do enough to limit our travels? Do we use the tools, the technologies in our hands, to reduce the number of travels we ourselves do but still allow knowledge to travel? Do we really need to...

How do you get more than 300 people to reflect on and share their thoughts on an event in a meaningful but fun way and in a short period of time? This was the question on the minds of myself, Peter Ballantyne and Tsehay Gashaw (both from ILRI KMIS) one day as we sat having coffee and discussing the...

According to the Mendeley blog,  ”Sharing knowledge and connecting researchers is what we do” — and this is exactly what we at the CGIAR ICT-KM Program do too! What a good match! We were, therefore, very happy to see one of our very own CGIAR staff featured recently on the Mendeley...

“ Somewhere over the rainbow, Way up high, There’s a land that I heard of, Once in a lullaby.” While scientific articles have been and still are the ‘rainbow’ for research and researchers, new and exciting approaches to research communication (such as social media tools)...

“It’s time to change the way we do research” -are you ready? do you know how? Register now for an interesting webinar! One way to change the way we do research is to improve the way in which we create, collaborate and communicate. We need to find ways to make our research data, information...

During the African Agricultural GIS Week (AAGW10), a compelling story emerged. On Day 2 of AAGW10 each of the CGIAR Centre representatives to the Consortium for Spatial Information (CSI) were given time to present. They were asked to tell their top three stories of what their centres have been doing,...

Day ‘Oh now I know how to…‘ (Day 0)- the learning and training day of the AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 18th October 2010, is now over and done, but we hope the learning that started there isn’t. And while we hope that the participants are learning,...

“Sometimes I liken my job to being a travel agent“, I shared in my interview in the new Growing Talents: Young Voices in Agriculture series when asked about my work on ‘making ag knowledge travel’. But why the analogy of travel? “The knowledge that exists within various institutions,...