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
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ICTs, mobile phones and Ethiopian agriculture
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
ICTs as enablers of agricultural innovation systems
The World Bank recently published an ‘ICT in Agriculture Sourcebook‘ Module 6 ‘ICTs as enablers of agricultural innovation systems’ was co-authored by ILRI’s Peter Ballantyne. The module introduces ICT developments in the wider innovation and knowledge systems; it also explores drivers of ICT use in research and extension. A section on ‘ICT in the Agricultural … Continue reading
Devising and sustaining agri-water research communication efforts over time
One year ago, in February 2011, project staff from 10 Agriculture Water Management projects got together in a mini ‘share fair’ to share their objectives, intended outcomes, products, timelines, stakeholders and geographical focus. One of the ‘hot’ discussion topics was communication … more specifically how to sustain interest and investment over time. Participants were concerned … Continue reading
ILRI toolbar: How to simplify your browsing experience
The ILRI community toolbar is a graphical user interface that allows users to quickly and smartly locate all of ILRI’s communication channels as well as related livestock websites. This must have toolbar, contains tabs that will significantly reduce the amount of time you spend browsing for various pages and sites that are commonly used at … Continue reading
ILRI 2011 web services usage update
In the past few years we (‘comms’ people across ILRI) have streamlined our communication workflows and adopted a broader set of external communication platforms and tools. In case you are interested, here are some basic numbers associated with the various services we run. In 2011, these were collectively viewed just over 8 million times; in … Continue reading
From mahider to CGSpace: Moving our research outputs to open repositories
In late 2009, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) began work on an institutional repository using Dspace software. Under the name ‘mahider’ (http://mahider.ilri.org), we intended this repository to be a complete index of all ILRI research products/outputs; with ‘full’ content as often as possible (we struggle to get full versions of articles and other products … Continue reading
ILRI partnerships and communications – making knowledge travel
For the recent LiveSTOCK Exchange event, we asked Bruce Scott, Director of Partnerships and Communications at the International Livestock Research Institute to reflect on changes he has seen and experienced with regard to communications. Watch the video: More on the role of knowledge sharing in the LiveSTOCK Exchange event … Continue reading
Africa / CCAFS / Climate change / East Africa / Ethiopia / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / West Africa
ILRI KMIS facilitates and documents climate-smart crop breeding workshop for CCAFS
On 6, 7 and 8 December, staff of Knowledge Management and Information Services (KMIS) at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) provided facilitation and reporting support to a Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) workshop titled ‘Developing climate-smart crops for 2030 world’. It took place on the ILRI Ethiopia campus in Addis Ababa. The … Continue reading
ILRI ‘communications’ powers the Livestock Exchange event
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Knowledge Management and Information Services (KMIS) and Public Awareness (PA) teams were heavily involved in organizing, facilitating, documenting and reporting about the recent Livestock Exchange (or LivestockX) event held on 9 and 10 November 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The event, which was hosted by the ILRI Board of Trustees, had 130 … Continue reading
Maarifa - Communications and Knowledge Management 