Last week, ILRI staff had a major input into the ‘5th All Africa conference on animal agriculture’ organized by the Ethiopian Society of Animal Production (ESAP) and the All Africa Society of Animal Production. Staff from ILRI KMIS in Addis were asked to help support the collation and documentation of the meeting. This means you … Continue reading
ArcGIS License Information: The CGIAR has recently signed a new contract with ESRI for ArcGIS software provision. The new contract means that we pay a fixed total cost and can request unlimited network and standalone licenses. However, we must monitor and register all these with ESRI and our main contact at ILRI is Wachira Theuri … Continue reading
A new way to find information on ICT at ILRI Introducing the ICT Portal provided by the common service unit for ICT. This is a website containing information on ICT, including and not limited to: Highlights – short write-ups on what’s in the ICT news ICT Resources available for your use, how to request for … Continue reading
So, many of you will have seen a change in my work arrangements recently and started to see me in the KMIS division of ILRI. My name is appearing on emails, programs and documents and I have been participating in ILRI events (e.g APM)– and you may be wondering about it (and about me). Well … Continue reading
From 29 January to 2 February, the African Union Commission (AU), with the technical cooperation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), organized an exhibition under the theme Information and Communication Technologies for Africa which took place in parallel with the 14th African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government. ILRI joined … Continue reading
Early in October you may have noticed some changes to the ILRI website – the front page mainly, but also a few other pages. In case you forgot the URL, it is http://www.ilri.org! We are also introducing a lot of other new ways to share and communicate our knowledge. If you don’t have time to … Continue reading
On 1 September 2011, Peter Ballantyne officially joined ILRI as the KMIS Manager and will lead the teams in Nairobi and Addis from his office in the ILRI Addis campus. One of the first things Peter did on arrival in Addis was to encourage all the KMIS teams to join others on the Yammer communication … Continue reading
The Conference/Forum that took place at the Addis Ababa UN Conference Centre on July 1–3, 2009 brought together staff and senior program leaders of key African intergovernmental and development organizations to discuss the importance of ensuring that the development and use of information and knowledge resources and services are recognized as critical for inclusive development … Continue reading
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