So you may have heard of Open Access or even open access, maybe the Open Access movement or open access publishing–but what about ‘Open Access Agriculture’?
When I first heard the term ‘Open Access Agriculture’ I imagined farms with gates wide open in which I could go visit,...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — A first of its kind event in Africa, the “AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair,” will bring together 300 innovators and leaders across the continent to share promising methods, tools and approaches that help stimulate and propagate Africa’s agricultural and rural development...
By crawling and extracting information from a user’s library, Mendeley creates a directory of research for all users to search. In doing this, Mendeley is working to organize the world’s research papers and facilitate collaboration among interested parties.
If you would like to learn more...
It is great and surprising to see how a good thing, born out of enthusiasm, can take off and start leading a life of its own…
I am sure the team organising the Rome Share Fair back in January last year, had no idea where they were going to end up… How the concept, the mechanics, the spirit...
As new Megaprograms were being finalized, research defined, new partnerships forged for a new more impactful agriculture research agenda… as the texture, the vital structure of the new CGIAR was being defined it became apparent that communication and knowledge sharing related issues were...
Join us in Addis Ababa on 18-21 October 2010 for ‘AgKnowledge Africa’ Share Fair : a new event to showcase the ways agricultural and rural knowledge in and of Africa is created, shared, communicated, and put to use.
Like the 2009 edition in Rome, and the recent edition in Cali, this event...
On July 12th 2010, an innovative new project hosted at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) held a one day workshop on ‘developing index-based livestock insurance to reduce vulnerability due to drought-related livestock deaths’. The project -Index-Based Livestock Insurance-,...
They say ”a picture is worth a thousand words” and I have always been intrigued by pictures, images and visuals and their production as tools for knowledge sharing and learning. The field of ‘graphic facilitation’-in which the creation of graphics are a key part of the facilitation...
On 5th July 2010, I posted a blog entitled “How to motivate more knowledge sharing in research: using the carrot or the stick?” to explore what makes or would make researchers and research projects share their agricultural research knowledge. This received some interesting responses.
This...
As the CGIAR moves ahead with its change process, it is continuously being told that it needs to do a better job at sharing its vast wealth of research-generated knowledge, so that this knowledge can be applied to solving real problems.
While the publications written-the major output of most projects- are...
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.
