1. Africa Agriculture GIS Week 8-12 JUNE 2010 africaagriculturegisweek.org cgiarcsi cgiar-csi.org

2. CSI on the Web JAWOO KOO, SILVIA RENN, GLENN HYMAN, EMILY SCHMIDT, WOLFGANG GÖBEL Web Committee CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information cgiarcsi cgiar-csi.org AAGW10/NAIROBI 8 JUNE 2010

3. Bye Bye… Slow performance Closed access Closed site management Limited disk quota Limited bandwidth No RSS No search capability Deprecated technology (ASP3) … RIP: CSI OLD WEBSITE (19xx – 2009)

4. Hello! search box finally! slider up to 5 articles news ticker breaking! some nice blurb well, working on it quick links 3-5 popular items social aggregatorblog/tweet/forum what’s new latest dataset of course!rss/blog/fb/tweet what’s new latest center update

5. center showcase contributesposts

6. members each center updates representative contact Information as necessary

7. Droppr Google Maps Mashup SRTM v4.1 the most popular dataset of CSI

8. CRU-TS 2.1 also popular! data download widget via Box.net

9. 2,231uniquevisitors since April not bad!

10. TOP 5USA, China, Germany, Italy, UK (Kenya at 17)

11. It’s all about DATA!

12. What else? ok, so a new site at http://cgiar-csi.org* *not the other way around! http://csi.cgiar.org forwards to the new one

13. Bbog! post by email just send your post to post@cgiar-csi.posterous.com and it’s done. seriously. attachment automatic embedding

14. Twitter! http://twitter.com/cgiarcsi follow us now! autopost from blog to twitter

15. Facebook! Kai’s the owner! Poke him if you like 26 members

16. Forum! cgiar-csi@googlegroups.com 116 members

17. Google Apps! reps@cgiar-csi.org Send out message to all CSI reps

18. Basecamp! project management messages, to-do lists, milestones, writings, chatting, file repository

19. Wufoo! http://povertymap.info

20. Soft-launched NOW; Official launch (?) next week with new contents from AAGW Participate. Contribute. Seriously. We don’t have excuses any more! Website: Easy to maintain Blog: Easy to post Twitter: Automatic Forum: Emailing Box.net & 2 dedicated app servers at GoDaddy:Plenty of space/bandwidth Wufoo: Instant (almost) data dissemination But, how precisely? What to share or not? Who’d be responsible? Sustainability? Intellectual property?  Good questions! Let’s talk. So, what now?

21. Proposing… Goal: Enhanced visibility of CSI For each center: Editor account for the website will be given Update Center Showcase Update Contact Information Post Blog (min. 1 post/month/center) News Dataset Publication, etc Activity monitoring dashboard-ishway How to encourage/mandate?