Dear all,

In January 2009, Rome-based agencies working in agricultural research and development, and food security joined forces to co-organize the first Knowledge Share Fair in order to enable their staff to showcase, recreate and invent ways to share knowledge and improve access to it. Building on the successful outcome of the Share Fair, a similar event will be organized by the ICT Program (ICT-KM) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with other organizations who are working in related fields. The event will take place at the campus of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia and retain a regional focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.

A meeting of the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community will follow the Share Fair (May 27 and 28).

While we are currently working with the organizing committee of the KM4Dev meeting on a concept to submit to all of you, I am sharing with you below the call for proposal that was just released for the
Share Fair.

If you or your organization has activities in LAC that include novel and effective knowledge sharing approaches please share the below announcement and the call for proposal with your colleagues, and partners.

• Download the English version
• Download the Spanish version

A Spanish announcement is available at: http://tinyurl.com/y8wc7gp

Deadline for submission is March, 15.

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Knowledge Share Fair Latin America and Caribbean CIAT, Cali, Colombia, 25 – 27 May 2010

http://sharefair2009.blogspot.com/2010/02/knowledge-share-fair-lati...

In January 2009, Rome-based agencies working in agricultural research and development, and food security joined forces to
co-organize the first Knowledge Share Fair in order to enable their staff to showcase, recreate and invent ways to share knowledge and improve access to it. Building on the successful outcome of the Share Fair, a similar event will be organized by the ICT Program (ICT-KM) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with other organizations who are working in related fields. The event will take place at the campus of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia and retain a regional focus on Latin
America and the Caribbean.

Objectives
The main objectives will be to:

• Demonstrate how formal and informal knowledge sharing improves the effectiveness, efficiency and
  impact of working activities;
  
• Share and learn from each others good practices;
  
• Provide staff from different organizations with the opportunity to get to know and learn from each
  other to create linkages and networks for future
  collaboration;
  
• Develop ideas to support and enhance knowledge sharing within and across
  organizations;
  
• Experiment with tools and methodologies for knowledge sharing.
  

Themes
Specific themes will include:

• Good Knowledge Sharing Practices with project teams, partners, communities, networks, and end
  users
  
• Good practices in making research processes and outputs accessible, available and applicable
  

Format
The presenters and activities will be selected upon a call for proposals. The Fair will be structured in booths, hands-on training and facilitated sessions with interactive modes of presenting the activities, focusing on the experiences and lessons learned. Participants will explore how different face-to-face knowledge sharing methods and e-tools can be applied to their work and present innovative solutions that encourage effective collaboration, networking and leadership.

Call for proposal

• Download the English version
• Download the Spanish version

Please send the call by March, 15 to: sharefair-ciat@cgiar.org