I haven’t been blogging for some time here at ICT-KM, but the recent excellent interview about our ICT-KM blog story reminded me that I really wanted to come back and talk about recent KS initiatives and interventions that are worthwhile mentioning. We haven’t been lazy over the last months. Some...

Klaus von Grebmer During the recent CGIAR Strategic Communications Workshop in Penang, Malaysia, Klaus von Grebmer, Director of Communications, IFPRI, spoke about the need to implement collective communications activities among the CGIAR Centers. In an interview conducted at the conclusion of the first...

IFPRI has recently issued a call for nominations for a new initiative on “Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development.” To submit a nomination or nominations, please visit www.ifpri.org/millionsfed. Also check out the flyer: millions-fed-nominations-flyer The Millions Fed project,...

This year we were 4 CG participants at the annual meeting of the Km4Dev Community: Andrea Pape-Christiansen from ICARDA. Her participation was sponsored by the Institutional KS project as a means to further foster the KM capacity of a KS workshop participant. Andrea was very interested in the KM strategy...

The Institutional KS Project is proud to announce supporting the participation of two CGIAR staff to attend the upcoming annual KM4Dev gathering. Andrea Pape-Christiansen, in charge of knowledge management at ICARDA, participated in phase 1 of the KS workshop and applied for sponsorship, an offer that...

As even the “older” generations are getting caught up in the Facebook and social networking mania, it might be interesting to highlight the possible uses of Facebook to the growing, though still dormant, CGIAR network which was set up within the CGIAR by Luz Marina Alvaré from IFPRI, who...

CG participants met on day 3 to digest the conference and jointly think about possible ways to move forward. Some ideas that were discussed: Look at the “IFPRI” model of training and guidance, which consists in once a week face to face and/or distance modules. Support through the Institutional...