KM (and communication) at ILRI Igniting ‘researching out loud’

for more effective development outcomes

Ewen Le Borgne

KM4Dev Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

21 June 2013

Principles (KM without a strategy)

1. Open knowledge

2. Partners’ knowledge valued

3. Multi-purposed

4. Collecting, connecting, conversing

5. Face‐to‐face (and otherwise)

6. Joined up advocacy

7. Outcome-focused

8. Internal communication & M&E

9. Partnerships for impact (systemic capacity)

10.Innovative ICTs

Principles (KM without a strategy)

KM pillars

KM pillars

Knowledge sharing and learning

Publishing

Translating outputs into research, development and policy outcomes, getting knowledge into use

Internal communication

Communicating for wider influence and impact

Where is KM at ILRI?

Everywhere!

In managing information

In sharing knowledge

On social media Around the corner At the Zebu club

At bimonthly coffee mornings At monthly seminars

At team meetings In project workshops

In external workshops At team retreats

In annual planning meetings

In learning

In our overall comms approach

In KMIS & Comms

In our projects

In our organisation, Internally…

…and at its edges

In networks

Through formal

training…

…And informal coaching

In our repositories

And in our people

We do have (many) challenges :/

But we see them as next

opportunities :D

Next opportunity #1

Big picture KM at big scale

Next opportunity #1

Big picture KM at big scale

Next opportunity #2

Monitoring and learning

Next opportunity #3

Changing attitudes

Next opportunity #4 Refining our approach in CGIAR and beyond

With sandboxes and the like

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