Updates from "CGIAR ICT-KM blog"

Making ag knowledge travel: Travel tips from the Share Fair
“Sometimes I liken my job to being a travel agent“, I shared in my interview in the new Growing Talents: Young Voices in Agriculture series when asked about my...
Open Access Agriculture: opening the gates
So you may have heard of Open Access or even open access, maybe the Open Access movement or open access publishing–but what about ‘Open Access Agriculture’?...
Chickens and ducks and …
Language is a barrier that can have serious implications when it comes to knowledge sharing. This is an issue that has been at the center of many discussions...
Mendeley Webinar – October 7, 2010 – register now!
By crawling and extracting information from a user’s library, Mendeley creates a directory of research for all users to search. In doing this, Mendeley is...
Why communication and knowledge sharing in our Megaprograms?
As new  Megaprograms were being finalized, research defined, new partnerships forged for a new more impactful agriculture research agenda… as the  texture,...
African ‘carrots’: Results of a consultation at the African Agriculture Science Week
On 5th July 2010, I posted a blog entitled “How to motivate more knowledge sharing in research: using the carrot or the stick?” to explore what makes or would...
How to motivate more knowledge sharing in research: using the carrot or the stick?
As the CGIAR moves ahead with its change process, it is continuously being told that it needs to do a better job at sharing its vast wealth of research-...
Want to make knowledge move around: Is the roundtable approach applicable?
How can you make knowledge move around?  Well like any mechanism that moves around you need the right kind of apparatus to be moved around,  some sort of push...
XIII IAALD World Congress Roundup
Montpellier at the end of April was abuzz with eager participants heading to the XIII IAALD World Congress. One of the event’s attractions was a side session...
Sharing project outcomes using a “cattle corral”(FishBowl) approach: What’s in a name?
Knowledge sharing tools and methods come in all shapes and sizes, and with some very interesting names often too. Many can be found on the  Knowledge Sharing...