After years of part-time study, my PhD work is done: The Uptake of Wildlife Research in Botswana: a Study of Productive Interactions was formally accepted by Stellenbosch University in 2021. Sending thanks to the…

Please be invited to join 

http://humboldt-cosmos-multiversity.org/11th-kcws-tenerife-eng/ ;

Amongst several tracks special session is planned with Peter Bury adressing issues of "Knowledge Republic" and alternative models in knowledge economics.

Summit…

Text by Melba Alvarez Pagella, IFAD. Twitter @Alvarez_Pagella

Photos, edition and coordiination by Cesar Robles, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation. Twitter @cesarroblesb

The second day of the K4D Conference opened with…

Text by Melba Alvarez Pagella, IFAD. Twitter @Alvarez_Pagella

Photos and edition by Cesar Robles, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation. Twitter @cesarroblesb

The Global K4D Conference kicked off the first day, 3 April 2017, with opening remarks by…

The Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal was relaunched on 15 February 2016. This article highlights our expectations of the portal, and the insights we have gained redesigning and relaunching the portal. 

What is the problem?

The…

     The African Rice Center* has been very successful in transferring knowledge about how to process rice in a way that makes it more nutritious and has less breakage. In a study conducted in Benin, 92% of the 600 women farmers took up a new process for parboiling rice. That is an amazing percentage for the transfer of knowledge. But the real story is the remarkable way they accomplished the transfer.

     I should note that in Benin parboiling rice is a major economic activity and…

This free webinar will give you some exciting strategies for Sustainable Agriculture, as well as an effective way to decode your own solutions and share them widely!



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Hi all,

For those who missed it, we had a very insightful session on launching and managing a Community of Practice at the monthly KMA DC meet-up. The presentation is now available online:

How to make your Community of Practice a Success - Based on the Behavior Change CoP at the World Bank

Be sure to sign up to the…

Everyone knows that Knowledge is the main key of success. For an effective organization, it is very much needed to build up knowledge management unit into the organization.  It helps increasing knowledge of its members and employees. By sharing knowledge with one another and with other organizations all em…

The African Men for Sexual Health and Rights [AMSHeR] wishes to appoint a suitable qualified individual…

“Bromine!” I said with a sense of amusement in my voice as we drove down from Mumbai to Pune. “Yes, leaking bromine...it usually causes a mess in the warehouse, and one of my last KM projects was to stem this issue” Rudolf said. I rest my head on the comfortable upholstery and imagine myself in a warehouse and ask – will my KM projects ever reach a warehouse?

Rudolf does have a certain element of surprise value to him. He carries a Canon SLR still camera and a Sony full-HD…

Hello,

I did a short online questionnaire on the above outlined question and spent some time thinking about the results. The result gave a pretty one-sided picture that could trigger some interesting thoughts with some of you.

I would be very happy to hear them. Find the related blogpost …

Hello

Just want to ask if there is anyone who have better ideas on how to effectively capture tacit knowledge, i need to hear people's experiences when undertaking this task.Is it something you can say its easy to do or its hard to a certain extent?

[Summary of this blog: We know education and knowledge always act as an asset for everyone’s life. Library can do a big roll for learning. However, our farmers, garment workers and another poor service holders, labors have no opportunity, necessary education and time to access in library. For that reason, now most of them are out of modern knowledge, advantage of…

Explore the content as well as the context of the following links :

• http://bit.ly/IEhvLv   - “Time Line of Mobee Knowledge Services – April 2012 edition”
• http://t.co/bIHLTalC   - “Mapping the Secrets of the Universe : complementing bottom-up (CERN – LHC) with top-down (Mobee Knowledge Services) mechanism” – Have a look at the Attachment…

A week-long awareness raising and planning workshop on Participatory Mapping and Community Empowerment for Climate Change Policy Making jointly organised by CTA, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Partners With Melanesians (PwM) to promote the adoption of innovative Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools and approaches to help address development challenges started in Honiara today. http://goo.gl/J3yA5…

In relation with the focused discussion that recently looked at the kind of knowledge sharing activities that take place in our organisations (initiated by Gauri and Nancy on the Dgroup list), hereby a list of posts that relate to what ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) does in this field. 

All these posts are on our 'Maarifa' blog - a blog…

In a nutshell, the Copernican Principle mentioning there is nothing special about human and/or Earth. Regarding “Copernican Principle” applied to Quantum Physics and/or Science in general, IMHO we have at least three actions to avoid “big mistakes” in addressing  the next coming of future science   as follow :…