Nairobi+RC+Agenda

** ++ Research Communications Workshop Outline Agenda ++ ** ** Nairobi ****, Kenya **** , 5-7 July 2010 **
 * Africa Learning and Exchange Workshops on Local Content, Social Media and Agricultural/Rural Knowledge Sharing **


 * Aims**

· To enable participants to confidently integrate modern online communication tools into research communication strategies and programmes, including those promoting African knowledge within and outside the continent as well as those linking research to extension and community level organisations

· Based on participants experience, to develop a shared understanding of how these tools and approaches can best be adapted to the African context

· To inform preparations for the October 2010 ‘AgKnowledge Africa’ ShareFair in Addis Ababa

· The workshop will be practical, hands-on and based on peer to peer sharing and exchange.


 * Outline**

Broad themes for the workshop were spelled out in earlier documents:

· How to recover and disseminate research

· How to identify and counter bias in search tools

· How to use social media/web 2.0 tools and skills and approaches, with particular emphasis on strategies to promote create and take up of ‘local content’.

A second workshop focusing on exploring and promoting the integration of Local Content approaches begins in the afternoon of Wednesday 7th July. Some of the participants may join for the morning. Participants in the Research Communications workshop are similarly invited to the first session of the Local Content workshop in the afternoon.

We will use the social media tools to document and share our learning. 

|| 09:00 || Introductions and Expectations; finalisation of programme Research Communication in 2010, opportunities and challenges for African organisations || 10:30 || Break || 11:00 || Social Media Workshop One Depending on participants experience and interests there will be sessions exploring the use of  · Blogs and micro-blogging for promotion and audience engagement; · Video and audio story-telling and publishing · Wikis, for knowledge sharing and collaboration · Working with, for aggregating and syndicating content · Social Networks, for community building and engagement · Search engines – bias, tools and strategies · Social Bookmarking, for sharing content and collaboration || 12:30 || Lunch || 14:00 || Social Media Workshop One (Continued) || 15:30 || Break || 16:00 || Implications for the promotion of African Research communications Wrap up of the day || 17:00 || Close || || 09:00 || Review and Day Two planning AgKnowledge ShareFair – introduction and outline programme || 10:30 || Break || 11:00 || Social Media Workshop Two Depending on participants experience and interests there will be sessions exploring the use of: · Blogs and micro-blogging for promotion and audience engagement; · Video and audio story-telling and publishing · Wikis, for knowledge sharing and collaboration · Working with, for aggregating and syndicating content · Social Networks, for community building and engagement · Search engines – bias, tools and strategies · Social Bookmarking, for sharing content and collaboration || 12:30 || Lunch || 14:00 || Social Media Workshop Two (Continued) || 15:30 || Break || 16:00 || Wrap up of the day || 17:00 || Close || 17:30 || Reception at Wasini (opposite Safaricom) || || 09:00 || Review and Day Three planning Social Media Workshops wrap up · Show and tell · Strategic and operational use of these tools || 10:30 || Break || 11:00 || Implications for African Research communications, managing the flow of knowledge and Content between Global, Regional, National and Local Conclusions Evaluation || 12:30 || Lunch || 14:00 || Social media for research communication: Open Session with ILRI || 15:30 || END ||
 * Monday 5 July **
 * Tuesday 6 July **
 * Wednesday 7 July **
 * Sharing back from the Workshop