Nairobi+LC+Agenda

** ++ Local Content Workshop Outline Agenda ++ ** ** Nairobi, Kenya, 7-9 July 2010 **
 * Africa Learning and Exchange Workshops on Local Content, Social Media and Agricultural/Rural Knowledge Sharing **

· To review and take further the outcomes and recommendations of the 2009 IKMemergent Local Content workshop in Brussels, especially those relating to the promotion of participatory local content-focused approaches in the wider development community
 * Aims**

· To share experiences of using modern online communication, social media and digital tools in gathering and sharing Local Content in the African context

· To explore how the digital and online output of the participants organisations can be aggregated and promoted externally

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

· This workshop immediately follows the IKMemergent Research Communication workshop, which ends at lunchtime on Wednesday July 7th. We will be drawing conclusions and considering next steps in that morning and any Local Content participants already present in Nairobi are encouraged to join that session.

· Similarly, participants from the Research Communications workshop are encouraged to join the afternoon introduction to Local Content, so that learning from one can flow into the second.

· We will use the social media tools to document and share our learning. || 17:30 || Reception at Wasini (opposite Safaricom) || || 09:00 || Research Communications workshop – Optional || 12:30 || Lunch || 14:00 || Social media for research communication: Open Session with ILRI || 15:30 || Break || 16:00 || Introductions and Expectations; finalisation of programme Participatory local content-focused approaches in 2010, opportunities and challenges for African organisations · An opportunity for each of us to update the group on our activities since October 09 and for new participants to meet and share. · We suggest no PowerPoint: bring posters, videos, books, songs, and your stories of impact and constraints. || 17:00 || Close || || 09:00 || Day Two planning Social Media and Digital Devices: sharing experience, peer-support and learning workshops: · All of us are using Social Media such as Blogs, Twitter or Social Networks in our work and many of us are using a range of digital devices such as smart phones and, MP3 devices. We need to share and record successes and failures, identify lessons and make recommendations to others working in the same field · There are online tools, such as www.Netvibes.com, which link output from different online sites and present them as one, aggregated platform. They are free or low-cost, and provide opportunities for us to promote the approaches we are talking about. We plan to will look at Netvibes, and any other similar packages which people already use, and identify how it might be used. || 10:30 || Break || 11:00 || Social Media and Digital Devices: sharing experience, peer-support and learning workshops (continued) · || 12:30 ||  Lunch || 14:00 || AgKnowledge Africa ShareFair – introduction and outline programme Peter Ballantyne will present the outline plans, and lead discussion on how our work can connect with the programme Preparing for AgKnowledge It is likely that individual or groups of organisations will want to play an active role in the ShareFair. We need to identify what we can do, what preparations are necessary and plan how to lead on from this workshop to Addis || 15:30 || Break || 16:00 || Wrap up of the day || 17:00 || Close ||
 * Tuesday 6 July **
 * Wednesday 7 July **
 * Sharing back from the Workshop
 * Thursday 8 July **

|| 09:00 || Day Three planning Open session developing and documenting local content…(TBC) || 10:30 || Break || 11:00 || ·   Implications for African Local Content communications, managing the flow of knowledge and Content between Global, Regional, National and Local We will draw together the discussions and consider some more strategic implications. || 12:30 || Lunch || 14:00 || Review & Next Steps Evaluation || 15:30 || Break || 16:00 || Close ||
 * Friday 9 July **