An innovation platform writeshop: Capturing and scaling out learning

Posted on 31 Jan 2014 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

In May 2013, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) convened a ‘writeshop’ on innovation platforms in Nairobi. Twenty individuals worked together, with expert facilitation and artistic support to produce 12 ‘practice briefs’. A contribution to the CGIAR Humidtropics research program, the briefs draw on experiences of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, several CGIAR centers and partner organizations. Continue reading →

ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information

ICTs, livestock research and social learning – ILRI contributes to ict4ag conference

Posted on 5 Dec 2013 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

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 and on days two and three, ILRI organized session on livestock and ICTs and on social ICTs … Organized by Peter … Continue reading →

ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Open access

Knowledge management and climate change: The KM4D Journal reborn open access

Posted on 12 Aug 2013 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

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; the initial discussants were motivated by, among other things, the desire to create and publish an open journal to report and recognize … Continue reading →

ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Open access

Open agricultural knowledge: On MOOCs, mobiles, innovation, outcomes, theories of change

Posted on 12 Feb 2013 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

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 Agriculture (RUFORUM). The aim was to explore ways to “accelerate agricultural development through open knowledge practices”; we discussed innovations in open learning from the AgShare project, as … Continue reading →

Film and Video / ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / people

Harmonizing knowledge management and research at ILRI

Posted on 16 Aug 2012 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

ILRI scientist Alan Duncan was recently interviewed by the USAID Feed the Future/Agrilinks web site on ways he communicates research. He talks about how, since joining ILRI, he is working with ILRI’s Knowledge Management and Information Services to communicate beyond articles – writing blogs, putting more provisional research outputs (and processes) into the public domain, … Continue reading →

Agriculture / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information

CGIAR knowledge sharing – connecting researchers and farmers

Posted on 25 Jun 2012 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

In its RIO+20 Call-to-action, CGIAR called for knowledge sharing systems that engage with smallholder farmers to improve the management of their crops, livestock and natural resources in order to increase production as well as minimize negative environmental impacts. Four CGIAR knowledge management specialists share their experiences on AlertNet: Peter Ballantyne (International Livestock Research Institute – … Continue reading →

ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Open access / Presentation

Using open knowledge and innovation to support program learning at ILRI

Posted on 11 Jun 2012 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

This week in Addis Ababa, the The USAID-funded TOPS Program held a Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Network Regional Knowledge Sharing Meeting to bring together food security and nutrition grantees, donors, and researchers for peer learning, knowledge sharing, and networking (see event program and details). On the afternoon of the first day, Peter Ballantyne (Head … Continue reading →

Asia / ILRIComms / India / Knowledge and Information / Report / South Asia

Getting the right content for ICTs in India

Posted on 7 May 2012 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

A new IFPRI discussion paper authored by Claire Glendenning (IFPRI) and Pier-Paolo Ficarelli (ILRI) examines content development and management processes occurring in six well-known ICT projects in Indian agriculture. Though there are differences in scale and mechanisms of delivery and feedback, all of the case study projects use a network of experts in relevant fields … Continue reading →

ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information

Knowledge management and information services at ILRI – What we did in 2011

Posted on 30 Mar 2012 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

Knowledge, information, communication – these are three assets that any research organization has to take care of. But what does work in this are actually look like, and what does it contribute to an organization like ILRI – the International Livestock Research Institute? For a recent ILRI Board meeting, we provided an update on our … Continue reading →

Agriculture / Ethiopia / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information

ICTs, mobile phones and Ethiopian agriculture

Posted on 21 Feb 2012 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

Yesterday, Judy Payne (USAID e-Business Advisor) and Amol Jadhav (GSMA Development Fund) convened an informal meeting of people in Addis Ababa with an interest in information and communication technologies (ICTs) in agriculture. The aim was to share ongoing United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and GSMA (the trade association for mobile industries) Development Fund … Continue reading →