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...

Videos are all the rage at the ShareFair 09. So it was an interesting experience facilitating a Video Presentation this afternoon. Three colourful videos that tell stories about innovation (Karim Hussein, Caroline Bidault and Chiara Calvosa from IFAD), best practices (Stefano Gavotti from FAO)  and traditional...

Summary of the 2.30 minute video: In this video Steve Song explains the most important points of his presentation for the Knowledge Management, Education, and Learning (KEL) Workshop in Maputo. The increasing density of connections in the world changes the way we work, the way we think in a fundametal...

Summary of the 1.15 minute video: In this video Prof Adipala (RU FORUM) explains the most important points of his presentation for the Knowledge Management, Education, and Learning (KEL) Workshop in Maputo. “The main thrust is that for Africa to participate in a global knowledge economy, it must...

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, or CGIAR, is facing unprecedented challenges. Today, rural communities across the developing world are suffering from sky rocketing food prices, the grave threat of climate change, energy shortages and unstable global financial markets. To...

As announced in a previous blog post, WorldFish delivered it’s storymercial, a short and punchy video that aims at attracting investors, partners and media to support research and apply its outputs. WorldFish now shares this innovative KS approach through a “how to” guide. See the guide ”How...

The Institutional Knowledge Sharing project is supporting three pilot activities in three CGIAR centers in order to contribute to institutional innovation, and learn about the effectiveness of KS approaches. Two of the pilots have now made available their products.   “Recovering from natural disasters”...

The Pilot Project run by The International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is focused on research/researchers recognizing the value of farmer knowledge, getting farmers to value their own knowledge and ideas, and finding ways to share farmers’ and other sources of knowledge...