In ILRI we have loads of research outputs and also lots of knowledge and valuable ideas are produced through our big events and workshops. Together with ILRI Public Awareness, ILRI’s Knowledge Management and Information Services (KMIS) aims to support knowledge sharing and communication activities in ILRI. KMIS helps to capture the knowledge, documenting and sharing … Continue reading
Category Archives: Knowledge and Information
Agknowledge Africa share fair – the survey results
In October 2010, ILRI Addis Ababa was the venue for a ‘share fair’ on Africa’s agricultural and rural knowledge. See the wiki about the event here In September 2011, the second Rome share fair will be hosted by IFAD (more info); so we decided to ask people who attended the Addis share fair what they … Continue reading
Publishing and sharing ‘open’ journal articles in ILRI
In line with ILRI’s strategy on publishing, we aim to make as many of our ILRI research products as possible open for our partners and others to access. Our dspace repository (Mahider) contains a full index (we hope) to recent outputs as well as the full ‘text’s of reports, documents and the like … See … Continue reading
Web 2.0 learning opportunity in Ethiopia ’empowering’ for participants
A five-day web 2.0 training was conducted from May 23-27, 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The training was organized by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA). Participants came from Government offices, Universities, the United Nations, Non-Governmental and International Organizations with various areas of specialization. The … Continue reading
Knowledge is like rainwater … supporting the NBDC with knowledge and communication
This week, communication people from across the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) meet in South Africa to compare and agree ways to improve communication and collaboration practices within the CPWF and among its partners. ILRI’s Peter Ballantyne is attending for the Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) – one of the CPWF-supported Basin … Continue reading
ILRI shares social media skills and tools with partners
From 12-14 April 2011, ILRI’s KMIS team ran an introductory social media course for five people from the East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD) and the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF). The training covered the following modules: Collaboration and document sharing Blogging Managing and sharing photos on the web: Sharing PowerPoint presentation on the web: … Continue reading
Following ILRI news and research outputs as a ‘daily paper’
Some of us find it difficult to keep track of all the various information, knowledge and news produced by ILRI and the CGIAR ….. This post is a quick intro to a service called ‘paper.li’ This is a clever tool that looks at Twitter according to some profiles we set up, and produces a ‘daily … Continue reading
Livestock and climate change news aggregator
The Adapting Livestock Systems to Climate Change Collaborative Research Support Program has created a web-link to information from more than 200 streams of news items posted on the websites of international and US organizations. The aggregated news is filtered for information on issues relevant to livestock, climate change, nutrition, and gender. See the feed at: … Continue reading
Fifteen communication tools for ILRI staff
In the past eighteen months, we have been working with a growing set of communication and knowledge sharing tools at ILRI. To help staff plug in to the different knowledge flows and resources, we have identified a list of the most important tools we use – and the ways that staff can use them: ILRI … Continue reading
ILRI research travelling further than ever
In this video, Bruce Scott, Director of Partnerships and Communications (P&C) at ILRI introduces the aims and objectives of the annual P&C retreat held in Addis Ababa in January 2011: Looking back on the past year, setting priorities for the coming year. The key issue was how we ensure that the outputs of ILRI research … Continue reading
Maarifa - Communications and Knowledge Management 