Why animals matter to human health and nutrition
Human, livestock and environmental health are inextricably linked, Sixty-one per cent of all diseases are ‘zoonotic’ –that is, transmissible between animals and humans.
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Are you hosting an online conference? Here’s how to make the people online REALLY feel part of your conversation
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
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
Agriculture / CCAFS / ILRIComms / Innovation Systems / Knowledge and Information / Opinion Piece / Social learning / Social media
Social learning – is there any other kind?
We’ve been exploring social learning in climate change for three years in the Climate Change and Social Learning (CCSL) project. But in the world wide web, social learning is much more closely related to social media. What to make of it? Continue reading
Social learning at the AgKnowledge innovation process ShareFair
Social Learning is, almost by definition, a form of Slow Learning. Social learning was at the heart of the Innovation Process share fair held at ILRI Ethiopia in May 2015. This post reviews results from a survey about participants’ experience at the fair, and outcomes of their participation. 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
Capacity Strengthening / CapDev / ILRI / Knowledge and Information / POD / RMG / Training
ILRI emerging career researchers learn to use ‘paperless’ data collection techniques
Emerging career researchers (ECRs) at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) were recently trained to better collect, organize and manage the data they generate during their day-to-day research activities, starting from data collection in the lab or field through to publishing of research results and archiving. Continue reading
Promoting agricultural research – which services do your scientists use?
Increasingly we see that our scientists themselves can do a lot to promote and increase the visibility of their work – and in some cases collaborate and get metrics and impact scores. Here are the top 4 we want ILRI scientists to use – are there other services like this you consider essential? Continue reading
Fear of the blank box: why and how to post updates on Yammer, LinkedIn etc.?
We are all busy. All super busy. And our attention is divided by many signals, to-do’s, emails and a variety of strange attractors. But the point is: sharing some information on social media sometimes helps others gain time. And you would appreciate that time gain also. Continue reading
Ripples of change and winning people over with engagement: Lessons from Africa RISING
Working with the same group of people, to support their events and processes, clearly presents many opportunities. Through regular engagement it becomes possible to shift the attitude and ideas of people, and the course of their events and processes. Here is an example of such a journey that Africa RISING teams went through. 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
Maarifa - Communications and Knowledge Management 