UNICEF_StudyTour

This briefing tour for the UNICEF communication team took place from 29 to 31 August to share how ILRI deals with information and knowledge management.

Study tour programme
Abenet, Abeba, Bizuwork || Sacha, Indrias, Wossen, Guenet, Maki, Fatou ||
 * ** Time ** ||  ** Session **  ||  ** ILRI People involved **  ||  ** UNICEF Staff **  ||
 * **//Wednesday 29 August 2012//** ||   ||
 * 11.30-12.30 || Start-up discussion – Review programme || Peter & Ewen || Sacha, Wossen, Maki ||
 * 14.00-15.00 || Working with an intranet || Peter, Dani & Liya || Sacha, Indrias, Wossen, Guenet, Maki, Ahmed ||
 * 15.30-17.00 || Working with social media || Tsehay (& possibly others) || Sacha, Indrias, Wossen, Guenet, Maki, Almaz, Behailu, Frezer, (Kerida, Trisha tbc) ||
 * **//Thursday 30 August 2012//** ||   ||
 * 09.00-10.00 || Working with websites and blogs || Dani, Mekonnen, Ewen || Sacha, Indrias, Wossen, Guenet, Maki, Almaz, Behailu, Frezer, (Kerida tbc) ||
 * 10.00-11.00 || //ILRI coffee morning// ||  ||   ||
 * 11.00-12.30 || Working around events || Ewen, Peter || Sacha, Indrias, Wossen, Guenet, Maki ||
 * 14.00-16.00 || Information-Knowledge Management:
 * How to document and share work processes?
 * Disseminating reports – using what channels etc.
 * Packaging outputs – how to ‘format/version/package publications for different audiences’ || Peter & Ewen
 * **//Friday 31 August 2012//** ||   ||
 * 10.00-11.00 || Seminar on the study tour experience and KM challenges & opportunities at UNICEF || Anyone || Sacha, Wossen, Indrias, Maki ||
 * 11.00-11.30 || Final debriefing || Peter & Ewen || Sacha, Wossen, Indrias, Maki ||

Background materials
> @http://addis2011.ifpri.info/2011/11/03/infobrief-issue-3/
 * IFAD social media guidelines
 * Social media guide for African knowledge on Climate Change
 * ILRI/CGIAR Yammer guidelines[[file:Yammer - master guidelines v.3.ppt]]
 * KM on a dollar day (knowledge management blog by former UNICEF staff member Ian Thorpe)
 * Harmonizing research and knowledge management, Alan Duncan's interview
 * Examples of event-related info briefs (IFPRI conference on food security and poverty reduction): @http://addis2011.ifpri.info/2011/11/01/infobrief-issue-1/, [] and
 * Maarifa blog (ILRI's information and knowledge management blog): [|http://infoilri.wordpress.com], including overview of all tools used at ILRI: []
 * Komms Klinics wiki - and particularly sessions on 'engaging audiences' and on 'organizing effective events and conversations'.
 * Process documentation: []