Since 2011, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has been organizing various training courses on social media, communication and knowledge management, with the brand name ‘Komms Klinics‘. Looking back In 2011, the various sessions were organized for staff to get acquainted with different communication and social media tools they could use in their research work, such as Yammer, iGoogle, wikis, blogging among … Continue reading
Category Archives: Social media
Africa / Asia / Europe / Event / ICT / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Latin America / Social media / WLE
Online peer-assists: learning about concrete solutions for water and land management research
Since January 2012, the Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF) is holding more and more structured learning events. Communication specialists from five out of the six basins of the program (Andes, Ganges, Mekong, Nile and Volta) have been gathering every month at a fixed date to engage in ‘peer assists’. These social learning events have … Continue reading
Finding and managing information in a research environment – an ILRI Komms Klinic
Information is vital to communication and research, and it is a critical resource for effective performance to any organization. Many organizations use different sources of information for planning, trend analysis and managing performance. Finding relevant and good quality information is essential to inform all these processes, yet information can also be overwhelming. Staff at the … Continue reading
Connect, engage, share and learn: A social media guide on climate change in Africa
Social media have turned the information and communication world upside down. Africa is not the most prominent continent when it comes to social media use, but penetration is increasing rapidly. Fashion, sport and pop culture in Africa are all making use of social media, but so is development. Particularly for complex issues that require inputs from … Continue reading
East Africa / Ethiopia / Event / ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / people / Social media
ILRI helps set up local ‘Knowledge Management for Development’ group in Ethiopia
Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) is an established community of practice (CoP) that seeks to forge linkages and encourage peer learning and exploration around the field of knowledge management for development. The network has grown a lot over the past five years and now has just under 1500 mailing list subscribers and over 2700 Ning … Continue reading
Komms Klinics reloaded: Get smarter about research information, knowledge and communication at ILRI
ILRI staff, other CGIAR centers and partner organizations involved in research for development all have to work with information, knowledge and communication. In fact they all do it, continuously. Research is indeed about information, knowledge and communication too, whether alone, in teams and in wider and increasingly complex partnerships. We can achieve smarter research through smarter … Continue reading
Africa / Climate change / Ethiopia / ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / LIVESTOCKFISH / people / Social media
Goats and Trees: 10 weeks as a KMIS intern at ILRI, Addis Ababa
On 26 January 2012, Kara Brown travelled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to begin a 10-week internship with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Knowledge Management & Information Services (KMIS). Here she reflects on her days in Addis Ababa – the ideas were initially shared with ILRI colleagues on 30 March 2012. It was my very … 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 ‘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
ILRI’s KMIS reports on AgProAfrica Conference
From 1 -3 November 2011, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the African Union Commission (AUC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the Forum for Agricultural Research in African (FARA) held a conference on “Increasing Agricultural Productivity and Enhancing Food Security in Africa.” Our Knowledge Management and Information Services (KMIS) team … Continue reading
Maarifa - Communications and Knowledge Management 