“Experiments are used by everyone, all the time; whether it’s testing the effects of a drug, or trying to make a new relationship work” (Wikipedia)
The Challenge Program on Water and Food is carrying out an experiment in making the relationship between research and development, often referred...
The Challenge Program on Water and Food of the CGIAR is trying to do something different.
In their words “through the paradigm of water productivity – developing ways to produce more food within limited water availability – it offers a new approach to natural resources management research...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there
These wise words were spoken to Alice by the Cheshire Cat when she was trying to move around in Wonderland, but serve as a good addage to many of us when we are thinking about the future.
For the Consortium for Spatial Information...
Experts Meet in Nairobi to Explore How Smallholder Farmers across Africa Can Benefit from High-Tech Geospatial Mapping Technologies
Geospatial experts from the world’s largest alliance of agricultural research centers will gather in Nairobi from 8-12 June to develop new strategies for using high-tech...
All the geeks among you will rejoice at this feast of data collected by our ever so resourceful Antonella ….. a more in depth after-action-review is being carried out and I will get back to you with more qualitative data, but for now, sit back, relax and enjoy this data galore….
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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.
