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Communication and facilitation at the heart of Africa RISING meetings
Workshop participants sharing lessons From September to late October 2012, the Africa RISING program held a series of review and planning workshops. These followed a series of other inception, design...
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Co-creating knowledge vital in research for development
Local, indigenous, knowledge is essential in any country. It is a crucial asset that people can tap into in their struggle for survival. Local knowledge is meeting renewed interest in multi-stakeholder...
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Reporting and communication help power FAO agriknowledge ShareFair in Addis...
group discussions to identify good practices In October 2012 the Knowledge Management and Information Services (KMIS) team at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Addis Ababa worked...
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Writing our science for development: A new look at writeshops
Carbon sequestration, GHG emissions, NDVI, GIS…..these are some of the words that routinely fly in a conversation around my workspace. You see, I sit with subject matter specialists and that subject...
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Open agricultural knowledge: On MOOCs, mobiles, innovation, outcomes,...
Last week I attended an Open Knowledge for Agricultural Development Convening organized by Michigan State University (MSU), OER Africa, and The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in...
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ILRI Komms Klinics in 2013: More and better training on communication and...
Since 2011, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has been organizing various training courses on social media, communication and knowledge management, with the brand name ‘Komms...
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Social learning, climate change and food security: The CCSL sandbox
In late 2011, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) issued a call for proposals to help develop a CCAFS ‘strategy on communication and social learning’....
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Nile BDC planning and consultation meetings: Where communication becomes central
Between November 2012 and February 2013, the Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) ran two major events to help steer its efforts in this last year of the Challenge. On 15 and 16 November, a largely...
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Climate Change Knowledge Exchange: Great conversations, good learning, but...
The Institute for Development Studies (IDS) hosted a ‘Climate Change Knowledge Exchange‘ on 5-6 March 2013. The exchange which was designed with the intention of being ‘an antidote to death by...
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Presenting ILRI work using Prezi
Conferences, workshops and events of all sorts are at the heart of ILRI work. ILRI staff travel to many places to present some of the work the organisation does. A long piece of meticulous research...
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Knowledge management and climate change: The KM4D Journal reborn open access
Eight years ago the first issue of the Knowledge Management for Development Journal (KM4D Journal) was published. It emerged from November 2004 discussions in a small attic room at IICD in The Hague;...
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Using CIARD RING to publish ILRI information services and tools
Inter-connecting agricultural research information systems and tools is one activity of the ‘Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development’ (CIARD) movement. It has set up an...
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Photofilm training to better document and communicate research in Ethiopia
Reblogged from Africa RISING: A key part of the Africa RISING communication strategy is to really engage with and document the knowledge and experiences of the communities where it works. Alongside...
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Storytelling experiences from the AgrifoodChain workshop
Storytelling ILRI events are often designed to explore alternative methods of engagement that maximize sharing and learning. The recent AgriFood Chain Toolkit Conference – Livestock and Fish Value...
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ILRI knowledge sharing tools update and refresher sessions held in Nairobi
From 17 to 20 September 2013, the Knowledge Management and Information Services (KMIS) team at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) ran several knowledge sharing tools update and...
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Facilitating large events – Lessons from the ict4ag Rwanda conference
This year’s most important event in the world of agricultural information and knowledge took place from 4 to 8 November in Kigali, Rwanda. ict4ag brought together over 400 participants eager to share...
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ILRI hosts DSpace Ethiopia user meeting and CGSpace training
From 28 October to 1 November 2013, International Livestock Research Institute knowledge management team in Addis Ababa held an informal first Ethiopia DSpace Interest Group Meeting and a DSpace...
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ODK used by ILRI for livestock data collection
Data collecting is a vital part of research for development work, as the results inform good decision making. Paper based system have been used to collect data in the field and for monitoring and...
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ICTs, livestock research and social learning – ILRI contributes to ict4ag...
ILRI people were active at the recent ict4ag conference in Kigali. Ewen Le Borgne was part of the overall facilitation team; on the plug and play day, Absolomon Kihara talked about the open data kit...
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Climate change communication and social learning – documenting the evidence
Since late 2011, ILRI has been working closely with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and a host of other organizations and individuals on ‘climate...
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