An interesting discussion was started last week by ILRI’s Peter Ballantyne. Peter is not new to the reader of this blog or anybody who has an interest in agriculture and information. Peter, now Head of the Knowledge Management group at the CGIAR’s Livestock Research Center, is also president...

We just concluded the CGIAR ICT annual meeting and the Alliance Deputies meeting on the shape of the Shared Services in the new consortium… . More on the results of these meetings later… To prepare for the meetings, I looked at the proposed “Strategy and Results Framework” to...

On January 22, Peter Ballantyne, president of IAALD will host a session exploring the future of libraries. Libraries and library-like services have powered agricultural information and knowledge sharing for decades. In a ‘googling’ world, however, where information and knowledge sharing...

The IAALD Africa congress will be held in Accra, Ghana in 2009 (13 – 17 July). People from Africa or working in Africa are particularly encouraged to submit papers and posters, before the end of October please. More information can be found here: English: http://www.iaald-africa.org/chapter_conference2009_en.html Français...

e-Agriculture at the IAALD-AFITA-WCCA World Conference (24-27 August 2008, Atsugi Japan) Plenary session, Wednesday, 27 August, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will facilitate an e-Agriculture panel to deliberate issues of ICT as enablers in various critical areas...