At the recent CSI-AGCommons-WhereCampAfrica event in Nairobi we interviewed some of the participants to get their perspectives on why maps are important, on their role in the response to climate change, on their use in recent crises…. Why maps? is a video produced by a Nairobi-based crew to help...

    CJ Terborgh An interview with Carmelle J. Terborgh, Federal/Global Affairs team lead, ESRI at the Africa Geospatial technology for Agriculture week in Nairobi Context: Launched 40 years ago as a consulting and research firm, ESRI created the first commercial geographic information software, ArcInfo....

A conversation with Meshak Nyabenge, GIS Unit Manager, WorldAgroforestry Center (ICRAF) Nairobi at the CSI-AGCommons meeting in Nairobi Q: What sparked your interested in GIS? A: As a kid, I was always imagining I could develop a boundary map of my village. I don’t know why–maybe ‘cause I...

We want to make sure we let you know what is happening in Nairobi. We are twittering from the AGCommons meeting at www.twitter.com/ictkm and we are preparing a number of interviews with the participants. We want to hear from ‘those around the table’, we are giving them a space to talk…....

On the third day of the joint CSI and AGCommons workshops is AGCommons Day. Today the focus shifts from looking mainly at the CSI community to looking at the broader AGCommons project. On the agenda will be: Presentation on Program goals, objectives, governance [Srikant Vasan, BMGF]; Phase 1 activities...

In April 2008 we held a very interesting CSI meeting . Here is the group picture we took then CSI meeting 2008 Yesterday we took a group picture for the CSI meeting in 2009 CSI meeting 2009 No…location is not the difference..both are taken in Nairobi… so…what is the difference?

The second day of the CSI and AGCommons workshop is now underway with a theme of  ‘Spatial Solutions’. The day will involve presentations from almost all of the CGIAR Centres plus other organisations who have come to participate in this event-all presenting the work they are doing in terms...