More and more ILRI meetings take place online with a dominant group sitting face-to-face. How to make people participating online feel they are really welcome to the conversation? Here are some ideas simple enough to apply. Continue reading
Category Archives: Communications
CKM / Communications / Ethiopia / Event / ILRI / ILRIComms / Kenya / Knowledge and Information / Participation
Facilitating CGIAR country collaboration and site integration with the ‘power of comms’
CGIAR research programs are developing country collaboration processes to help CGIAR centres collaborate among themselves and with other critical national partners. Communication and engagement are critical to such processes and a communication team is well placed to help there, as is the case in Ethiopia. Continue reading
Building a communication framework for CGIAR, the power of the ‘development multiplier’ and ‘KM inside’…
Communication and knowledge management at CGIAR means different things to different people. A recent meeting set out to develop a communications framework that emphasises the role of various communication areas in increasing the development results of research. Your feedback on this framework is welcome. Continue reading
Agriculture / Communications / Ethiopia / Event / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Social media
AgKnowledge innovation process share fair: Processing the process of all processes
An AgKnowledge Innovation Process Share Fair recently took place (25-26 May 2015) at the Addis Ababa campus of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) to discuss this central message. The fair focused on what too many people tend to forget often: the process (of innovation) and the need for process literacy. Continue reading
James Stapleton joins ILRI Communications and Knowledge Management group as managing editor
On 1 June 2015, James Stapleton joined the ILRI Communications and Knowledge Management (CKM) group as the managing editor. Continue reading
Communications, knowledge and innovation process share fair at ILRI Addis Ababa
This week, communicators, knowledge sharers, process facilitators and learners in agriculture meet up in Addis Ababa in a share fair. Continue reading
Connect online to the ‘AgKnowledge Innovation’ process share fair
On 25 and 26 May, the ILRI communications and KM group in Addis Ababa hs joining with several partners to host a ‘share fair’ event. The focus is on the design and delivery of truly effective ‘process’ improvements that lead to applied innovation, social learning and value for money (in agriculture). As well as the face to face, we want to use the event to pool and crystallise what we’re learning about working along the continuum from f2f to hybrid to online processes and events – and how best to weave those channels together. We’re looking for some online collaborators. Continue reading
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