By Christian Kreutz for Web2forDev Although the social web or Web 2.0 is not a new phenomenon, surprisingly little information is available when one tries to find best practices and experiences to social media in organizations. Therefore I interviewed CIAT’s Simone Staiger-Rivas and Antonella Pastore of the ICT-KM Program of the Consultative Group on International
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El pasado viernes, 27 de agosto estuve invitada a dar una charla en la Universidad Autónoma de Occidente en el marco del  Encuentro regional ¿Hacía una Cultura Digital? El conversatorio trataba del tema de la “Comunicación y TIC en Procesos de Apropiación Social”. Desde la experiencia del Programa de Gestión de Conocimiento del CGIAR compartí
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Read the interview of the interview with DAPA’s Andy Farrow on his project on drought-tolerant bean seeds that aimed at providing information on the location of existing seed outlets. It never rains but it pours, even during a drought. At least that’s what Andy Farrow must have thought when his project’s drought-tolerant bean seeds didn’t
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by Simone Staiger-Rivas (CIAT-DAPA), Peter Shelton (IFPRI), Petr Kosina (CIMMYT) and Nancy White (Full Circle Associates) Download the brief from the ILAC Web site It was a great pleasure to work with Peter, Petr, and Nancy to produce this brief which is part of the Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) series. The brief was written
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