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Dear Colleagues,
Collaborate,
Create, Communicate..
This month has seen us busy with the planning and
preparation for the ICT-KM2 Online Consultation which is
scheduled to start on 28 February 2005.
Participants
will include individuals from: Science Council;
Challenge Program; System Office; CSI; SINGER; IT
Managers; ICT-KM Advisory Group; researchers;
scientists; external experts; and others. For more
information please view the webpage http://ictkm.cgiar.org/html/GPGInvitation.html.
Interested
and ready to actively participate? Just send us an email
with your name, organization and title at ictkm@cgiar.org
and we will add your name to our participation list.
Further information and materials will be sent to all
participants in mid February.
We look forward to "seeing" you online in late
February and March.
ICT-KM
2004
INVESTMENT PLAN UPDATES
Consortium
for Spatial Information
In
response to the
Indian Ocean
tsunami, many of the CGIAR Centers working in the
affected regions are now actively involved in providing
assistance.
The CSI
Project has added a page to the CGIAR-CSI website with
links to the IWMI geospatial data, and other Tsunami
relevant geospatial information sources.
For more information, or specific data requests,
please contact csi@cgiar.org
or go directly to CGIAR-CSI Tsunami Info Page http://csi.cgiar.org/tsunami.asp.
Following
the request originating from the CGIAR Director
Generals' meeting held in
Jakarta
in January requesting CGIAR-CSI to coordinate the
development of a Tsunami impact assessment process, the
CSI global coordinator, Dr Robert Zomer and his team are
currently soliciting input to start the process of
formulating a joint approach to this.
Utilization
of Intelligent Information Systems for Plant Protection
The
implementation of this project began in January. The
project leader and his team are currently preparing for
its kick-off meeting which will be held on 9 and 10
February at ICARDA.
Knowledge
Management and Sharing
In collaboration with the ILAC Initiative, this
project will organize a workshop on “Group
Facilitation Skills and Participatory Decision Making”
from 15 to 17 February at IPGRI headquarters,
Rome. This workshop will be led by Dr Sam Kaner, noted
trainer on group facilitation and senior author of
“The Facilitator's Guide to Participatory
Decision-Making”. The project is also currently
developing a Knowledge Sharing Tool Kit and will review
HR policies and procedures related to KS and ILAC in
CGIAR Centers.
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ICT-KM
2
Starting
28 February 2005 the ICT-KM Program will begin an
exciting process that builds on earlier investments
made, and further improves the way in which the Global
Public Goods held by the CGIAR are managed, accessed and
shared for the benefit of all. A two-week online
consultation for ICT-KM2 will start on 28 February 2005.
Participants will include individuals from:
Science Council; Challenge Program; System Office; CSI;
SINGER; IT Managers; ICT-KM Advisory Group; researchers;
scientists; external experts; and others.
We are
inviting you to participate in this online consultation,
28 February to 11 March 2005. You
will have a unique opportunity to contribute to a new
way of doing business. You can learn from on-line
presentations, demos, and interviews with diverse
constituents. You can participate by logging on to our
consultation website or by giving us your feedback by
email.
Your
participation will contribute directly to the
elaboration of a project or projects designed to address
the challenges and opportunities identified during the
dialogue.
A few
hours of your time can make a difference for the whole
CGIAR! More importantly, it helps take steps so that the
work of CGIAR and National Partner scientists can be
accelerated and applied in the hands of farmers across
the world.
Interested
and ready to actively participate? Just send us an email
to ictkm@cgiar.org
with your name, organization and title, and we will add
your name to our participation list. Further information
and materials will be sent to you in mid February.
We look
forward to "seeing" you online in late
February and March.
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ICT-KM
PROGRAM MONITORING AND EVALUATION PLAN
The
ICT-KM Program is currently developing its first
Monitoring and Evaluation report documenting the lessons
from the Program activities and practical applications,
communication and learning that are central to the
ICT-KM Program’s efforts to encourage a System-wide
culture of learning and knowledge sharing. The
Program Evaluation team is coordinating with individual
projects in the development and implementation of their
own internal evaluation plans which will be documented
in the Monitoring and Evaluation report as well. The
report is scheduled to be completed in mid March.
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OTHER
ACTIVITIES
Future
Harvest Centers Tsunami Website
In
response to the call of Dr Dar in his capacity as CDC
Chair in January 2005 for Centers to get together in
responding to the
Indian Ocean
tsunami, a list server has been set up for Centers
staff.
This
list server is for the exchange of tsunami impact and
reconstruction information and is opened to all inside
the Centers. Interested to join? Please write to ictkm@cgiar.org
or Dr Meryl William at m.j.williams@cgiar.org
and your name will be added.
ICT-KM Website
From
Anthony's grand piano, to Ian's love for Africa, to
Edith's enthusiasm about how people are now
communicating more, to Michael's excitement about his
role... the ICT-KM Program is proud to introduce to you
the people "Behind the Scenes",
those who make the ICT-KM Program, and the change it
brings about, a reality!
These
are people you know, people you work with, people like
all of us: enthusiastic about their jobs, driven by
passion, and with a real life story to tell!
With
more profiles added regularly, remember to visit the "Behind
the Scenes" section of the ictkm.cgiar.org
website http://ictkm.cgiar.org/html/behind%20the%20scene/b-scene.html#
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TECHNICAL
CORNER...
Active
Directory and Exchange 2003
We now
have 8 Centers migrated to Exchange 2003.
The next two centers scheduled to migrate to
Exchange 2003 are IFPRI and CIMMYT.
A
4-member team of IT Managers has been appointed by the
IT community to lead the discussion on behalf of CGIAR
centers on the Exchange 2003 Global Address List issue
with CGNET to find the best solution for making external
addresses available to users in the CGIAR forest.
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DID
YOU KNOW THAT…..?
Mail Travel Access
The
latest TAS rates are now available for the CGIAR. Click
here to upload file on current TAS rates which also
include the premium and broadband services http://ictkm.cgiar.org/newsletter/Rates
- CGNET TAS Rates 1 Dec 2004.xls.
A
special discount to these rates is applied to support
tsunami relief efforts. The hourly dial-in
rate in
Malaysia,
Indonesia,
India,
Sri Lanka
and Thailand
in February and March will be USD2.
Open-Source Biology Evolves
Follow
the link http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,66289,00.html?tw=wn_story_mailer
to view an interesting article on open-source approach
to biology...
Can a
rebel band of scientists pool patented innovation
techniques and give them away through the internet? By
David Cohn
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TECHNOLOGY
WATCH
This
column is dedicated to keeping a regular watch for
emerging ICTs of potential interest to the CGIAR.
Symantec,
a company in information security providing a broad
range of software, appliances and services, has prepared
a press release which will hit the wires soon to
announce their new spam control system. The CGIAR which
uses the system through CGNET was considered an
excellent show case. This article provides the CGIAR as
a whole a good level of visibility and shows our
commitment to research and excellence.
Please
click here to view the article http://www.cgnet.com/about/casestudies/gatekeeper-cgiar.htm.
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UPCOMING
EVENTS
ICT-KM
2 Online Consultation
The two-week online
consultation for ICT-KM 2 will start on 28 February
2005. If you are interested in participating, please
contact the ICT-KM Program staff at ictkm@cgiar.org.
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Collaborate,
Create, Communicate...
this is the motto of the ICT-KM
Program. We believe that by expanding the CGIAR's
opportunities to work together and communicate we will
produce better science to help poor in developing
countries.
Your comments are especially
welcome. Please visit the Website, http://ictkm.cgiar.org/
or write to ictkm@cgiar.org
with comments and/or ideas for the next monthly update.
Working together for a better
future,
Enrica |
