Presented by Ewen Le Borgne at KM4Dev Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 21 June 2013

1. KM (and communication) at ILRI
Igniting ‘researching out loud’
for more effective development outcomes
Ewen Le Borgne
KM4Dev Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
21 June 2013

2. Principles
(KM without a strategy)

3. 1. Open knowledge
2. Partners’ knowledge valued
3. Multi-purposed
4. Collecting, connecting, conversing
5. Face‐to‐face (and otherwise)
6. Joined up advocacy
7. Outcome-focused
8. Internal communication & M&E
9. Partnerships for impact (systemic capacity)
10.Innovative ICTs
Principles
(KM without a strategy)

4. KM pillars

5. KM pillars
Knowledge sharing and learning
Publishing
Translating outputs into
research, development and
policy outcomes, getting
knowledge into use
Internal communication
Communicating for wider influence and impact

7. Where is KM at ILRI?
Everywhere!

8. In managing information

9. In sharing knowledge

10. On social media
Around the corner
At the Zebu club
At bimonthly coffee mornings
At monthly seminars
At team meetings
In project workshops
In external workshops
At team retreats
In annual planning meetings

11. In learning

12. In our overall comms approach

13. In KMIS & Comms

14. In our projects

15. In our organisation,
Internally…
…and at its edges

16. In networks

17. Through
formal
training…

18. …And informal coaching

19. In our repositories

20. And in our people

21. We do have (many) challenges :/

22. But we see them as next
opportunities :D

23. Next opportunity #1
Big picture KM at big scale

24. Next opportunity #1
Big picture KM at big scale

25. Next opportunity #2
Monitoring and learning

26. Next opportunity #3
Changing attitudes

27. Next opportunity #4
Refining our approach in CGIAR and beyond
With sandboxes
and the like

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