New article on data sharing and use of ICTs in agriculture: working with small farmer groups in Colombia

by Simone Staiger | Jan 5, 2016

Fanny Cecile Howland, Luis Armando Muñoz, Simone Staiger, James Cock, Sophie Alvarez When it comes to improve the decision making process of farmers, the access to and sharing of experiences and knowledge among them is a key practice for success, and Information and...

Graphic recording at CIAT’s internal ICT4D conference

by Megan Zandstra | Oct 27, 2015

The first time I saw graphic facilitation in-action was at a KM4Dev workshop in Seattle, Washington. While participants worked through a series of large and small group sessions, facilitator Nancy White captured major themes, questions, and ideas on a large poster...

Quick and “dirty” insights from the internal CIAT conference on ICT4D

by Simone Staiger | Oct 19, 2015

The path to progress for ICT4D at CIAT: some insights to help shape the way forward Before CIAT’s KM group engages in a deeper documentation and reflection on the experiences that were shared during CIAT’s internal conference on ICT4D, I decided to write this...

CTA and CIAT to partner with the Pan-African Bean Alliance on knowledge management

by Simone Staiger | Oct 15, 2015

It took us some time but finally CTA, CIAT and PABRA will work together on a knowledge management initiative! Indeed, we needed more than a year to nail down the collaboration, probably because even if relatively “small” activities are promising entry points to future...

Knowledge Sharing in search of a home in CGIAR

by Simone Staiger | Sep 11, 2015

Last week I attended a workshop in Rome on “Communications for research and development impact: delivering the CGIAR Results framework”, hosted by the Consortium Office. The objective was to develop suggestions for ensuring that communications and knowledge sharing...

Open access and open data: Three insights from the regional CGIAR implementation workshop

by Simone Staiger | Aug 28, 2015

From August 18th  to 21st, CIAT hosted the regional Open Access / Open Data workshop for CGIAR centers and CRPs, with colleagues from CIP, IRRI, IFPRI and CIMMYT. Two other regional workshops have been held already in Asia and Africa. It was a perfect opportunity to...