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The CIARD movement (www.ciard.net) is holding its partnership meeting in Addis Ababa at the ILRI campus this week. On Thursday, Netherlands-based CTA will hold a discussion and you're welcome to join and meet the CIARD/CTA crowd then and to hear about their outputs.CIARD is all about open access information and research on agricultural development. See More

Possible topics of discussion include: - A marketplace of 20 min where anyone can share any kind of update, event, document, idea etc. with one another - as a great way to get to know each other too. Please bring materials, PCs, CD-Roms etc. anything you need for a demonstration. - A peer assist case from LIVES (Fanos) about getting updated content on the Ethiopian Agriculture Portal. And an update from Addis about his peer assist case and what worked out or not. - A focused conversation on…See More

Friday 19 any of you guys can come over to the ILRI campus around 4pm to meet up with a very interesting group of people with a KM/comms background, including Paul 'Writeshop' Mundy (he coined the term and started the approach)... After that short 'networking' session (we promise sthg fun!) there's an option to enjoy a wonderful mesheta (local food, drinks and music) at the Zebu Club!See More

Tentative agenda:A marketplace of 30 min where anyone can share any kind of update, event, document, idea etc. with one another - as a great way to get to know each other too.A peer assist case from IFPRI (Addis Tigabu) about getting fellow researchers/colleagues to share knowledge.A focused conversation on "the relations between KM and communication".A focused conversation on 'communities of practice' in knowledge management work for development.KM at... IPMS/LIVES (an ILRI project that has…See More

Agenda:The next event will tentatively address the following (some in parallel sessions)A tool/hands-on session on blogs, Slideshare and Yammer (Tsehay/Zerihun);Follow up on the ICT-KM project overview (Meti/Fanos/task force);A peer-assist case from Addis on how to get researcher colleagues to do something about KM (will be prepared and communicated in due time) – there is space for 1 or 2 other cases in parallel; One of these cases could be the one presented below as ‘sharing insights’…See More

This third get-together can host a maximum of 25 participants - it may last the whole afternoon, this is still being debated.AgendaThe discussion will focus on:
A hands-on session on social media;
Follow up on the ICT-KM project overview;
A peer-assist case: one person can present a concrete problem they are facing to pick the brains of others in the group;
IFPRI to present their KM/social media work;
 Directions:
SNV is located on Debrezeit road at the 1st junction on the right to Kirkos…See More

Following our first get-together on 26 January, this is a second discussion where we have identified the topics:A brief introduction to social media and hands-on session on various social media (Yammer, Twitter, blogs, wikis, delicious, slideshare, FlickR) - Zerihun and Teshay will prepare this);A mapping of all ICT and KM projects in Ethiopia (Metadel and Fanos will prepare this);A…See More

All development (& research) knowledge and communication specialists in Addis Ababa and more widely in EthiopiaSee a presentation explaining what this group stands for and has done so far.See More

The group invites wider community in KM4Dev to contribute to the debate on challenges and opportunities that focuses on African development. We continue to explore innovative practices in sectors of agriculture, education etc with focus on ICT4 dev.

The brand new KM4Dev AA/Ethiopia group is a space for all communication, knowledge sharing/management, learning specialists that wish to share information and tips, work together or just socialise.To make this group more lively and indeed 'alive' ILRI organises a first get-together for all people in the group or keen on joining it.This get together will be informal and will be facilitated in a fun and…See More