ICT4Ag_December_2013

//A team of us (Peter Ballantyne, Tsehay Gashaw, Fanos Mekonnen, Simret Yasabu and Ewen Le Borgne) attended ICT4Ag 4-8 November 2013, in addition to non-Comms/KM folks (Iddo Dror, Absolomon Kibarra, Andrew Mude).//

Here is the after action review:

- **What worked?** - **What didn’t work so well?** - **What we heard/what inspired us/what was our experience generally?** - **What are implications for our respective programmes and ILRI generally?** - **What do we need to do (blog posts etc.) to harvest our insights about it?** - **What to do differently?**
 * o Good facilitation with Nancy White
 * o Good session about social ICTs
 * o Good networking
 * o Good learning and ideas
 * o Nice crowd
 * o Plug and Play went well – usually we get the sense that nothing’s happening
 * o The ODK conversation seemed to have gone very well
 * o Social reporting
 * o CGIAR stand worked well
 * o Hardly any notes from session but social reporting.
 * o Crazy dynamics
 * o Chaos around timing
 * o No good documentation
 * o No clear
 * o Content?
 * § Good to find out that farmers are also reached by social media
 * § A lot of new stuff about mobile phones
 * § //Farmer line// and //Farmer connect//
 * § Another one on tablets on maize research (at the end of the event) and perhaps can be linked up with e-readers which we’re using –
 * § Ethiopia is far behind
 * § Farm Radio is very good – good to invest in radio
 * o Process?
 * § Chaotic timing…
 * o Difficult to find out what is good for ILRI etc.
 * o Iddo was very busy with mobile work
 * o Perhaps as KMIS team we can guide others to channel solutions for their problems
 * o Perhaps link EAP with Farmer Connect via mobile phones through voice mails / SMS – perhaps restructuring the portal
 * o Good lessons on how to roll out
 * o ICT4Ag in Ethiopia with Ethiopia Ministry?
 * o Invite hackathon team in Ethiopia…
 * § Update for KM4Dev AA/ET
 * o LIVES blog post
 * o Posts from Peter (about the 2 sessions) about Maarifa
 * o Post from Tsehay about ODK
 * o Another post by Tsehay on engagement with young farmers
 * o Another post by Ewen on Maarifa about facilitation
 * o Bart (FarmRadio) is interested in working with us (from TZ/UG) to work in Uganda etc.
 * o Prepare ourselves with sessions to cover, learning questions etc.