September 8-October 3, 2008 - With the successful completion of the Knowledge Workshop earlier this year, we are happy to announce a new opportunity to learn and exchange knowledge sharing techniques. As in the previous workshop organized by the Institutional Knowledge Sharing project of the ICT-KM, this workshop will be divided into three phases, including both online and face-to-face components. For more information and to register for a limited number of seats, please review the attached flyer. For additional information, please contact Simone Staiger-Rivas s.staiger@cgiar.org.

April 7-9, 2008 - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Development in Sub-Saharan Africa is often perceived as being blocked by issues of inappropriate agricultural technologies, immense institutional constraints, and deep problems with the organization and management of agricultural systems. The ICT-KM program is proud to support this conference organized by IFPRI that aims to provide a forum for the exchange of these ideas and experiences on knowledge and innovation systems among different innovation agents (including the public, private, and civil sectors).

Download the e-agriculture Workshop report on the online and face-to-face consultations of the Program on users needs and feedback on the proposed strategy "ICT-KM 2 - Global Public Goods (GPGs): From Data and Information to Food".

February 11-15, 2008 - A joint workshop of the Online Learning Resources Project of the CGIAR ICT-KM Program and the United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS).

This new publication from ICT-KM is the first step towards the creation of an easy-to-use guide for evaluating the impact of websites. Customized especially for CGIAR websites, the guide's format is designed around the 3 Us approach: assessing the Usage, Usability and Usefulness of a website and its content. Please also join our discussion on the guide at cgxchange.org

Can Innovative Knowledge Systems assist international agencies in confronting development challenges? "Knowledge and Innovation for Agricultural and Rural Development" discussion took place on Tuesday 4th December at the AGM in Beijing. Click here for presentation by WILLIAM C. CLARK - Harvard as part of this session.

Can Innovative Knowledge Systems assist international agencies in confronting development challenges? Please join us on Tuesday 4th December at 3:30 PM during the CGIAR AGM 2007 Science Forum Session on "Knowledge and Innovation for Agricultural and Rural Development"

From 24th November to 7th December 2007, the WorldFish center is holding an e-consultation on "Using ICT in Fisheries & Aquaculture programmes" at www.e-agriculture.org.

By mid-morning on the first day of a recent workshop with representatives of projects that bring together civil society organizations, or CSOs, with CGIAR-supported Centers, one thing was perfectly clear: As with human relationships generally, there are lots of ways to strike up a CSO-CGIAR partnership.

Blogs, wikis, del.icio.us, Bebo, feeds, tags, RSS... Is this a new language? It sure is - it is the new and ever changing vocabulary of Web2.0! Web 2 point what? Well exactly.