The SocialMedia Team at WSFS 2009

Here we are: the guys who covered the World Summit on Food Security using the most common Social Media.

Thanks @gaurisalokhe for having set up the Team and happy to be part of it!
By the way, here is where you could follow the activities:

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FSCA Regional Workshop in Monrovia

Almost ready to the start of the second FSCA Regional Workshop here in Monrovia, Liberia. During the third day I will spend the morning introducing Communication for Development and Knowledge Sharing to the tens of people working in the seven countries (Senegal, The Gambia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau) involved in the projects [...]

FAO Vision day

We are all waiting for the FAO Vision Statement Day.
Keep following the #unfao hashtag on twitter to learn more about the Day.

Climate Change and Communication for Development

Today, for the Blog Action Day ‘09, the topic is the connection between Communication for Development, the discipline managed by the Team I’m part of at FAO, and Climate Change, the topic all of us are dealing with these days and in the near future.
Writing this post is not an easy job due to the [...]

Communties of Practice

Some notes taken during the meeting with @Nancy to talk about Communities of Practice last week at IFAD with @Gauri, @Roxy and @Michael.

Rural Radios at IFAD Community Driven Development Seminar

Last week IFAD organized a  seminar on Community Driven Development (CDD) and we thought Rural radios could be a very important issue to raise while talking about the way communities can be empowered.

@NancyWhite and the other facilitators chose the following ways to run the workshop:
* Chats Show and Tour of Exhibit during Day 1;
* World [...]

New visit for the Bluebar: the FAO Library

The David Lubin Library is a very important resource of FAO. The bluebar, the list of communicators of the Rome based UN agencies, asked for the possibility to visit the resource and Jessica Mathewson, very kindly, brought us around the facility.
There is always some doubts about dealing with libraries in a digital era. The point [...]

“We Have a Drinking Problem!”

“We Have a Drinking Problem” it is the title of the campaign we launched today in the FAO Headquarters to put in evidence the high number of plastic bottles produced everyday and the need to reduce this volume pretty soon. An art installation has been mounted in the Atrium to give people the perception of [...]

4th AMARC Pan African Conference Starts

The 4th AMARC Pan African Conference is just started and immediately appeared to be a very useful occasion to get in touch with Radio broadcasters here in Abidjan. What’s better to spend time around a table talking, and most of all, listening to people involved everyday in radio broadcasting?

Thanks to a very good wifi access, [...]

4th AMARC Pan African Conference

I’m very happy to participate to the AMARC Africa’s 4th Pan African Conference!
At the Conference, AMARC will gather its members, community radio stakeholders and relevant partner organizations to discuss the challenges of community radio in Africa. In his invitation, Marcelo Solervicens, Secretary General of AMARC, is eager to stimulate further collaboration between the major partners.
In [...]

The ability of creating linkages through the Internet

I recently found this article and I think it’s worth reading it. Written by Seth Godin, it’s called “How to make money using the Internet“. As you can understand from the title, the article is meant for a business audience and not directly for people involved in development projects.
Nonetheless, I see interesting prods about how [...]

Rome group of KM4Dev met yesterday

Yesterday the Rome group of KM4Dev met for the second time since January ‘09, when the idea was launched during the ShareFair 09.

As you can see for this picture everybody enjoyed the meeting and the idea of creating a new group.
The main topic debated was: CMS implementation and related training needs. The discussions [...]

Visit to the CMC-AH of FAO

Last Tuesday, the bluebar group had an interesting visit to the CMC-AH of FAO. The Crisis Management Centre - Animal Health (CMC-AH) is FAO’s rapid response mechanism for transboundary animal disease emergencies. The Centre works in strict collaboration with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and World Health Organization (WHO).
The Crisis Management Centre opened in [...]

Using Radios to support Rural Communication

During the Share Fair 09, I had the pleasure to facilitate an interesting session called  “Using Radios to support Rural Communication“. The session was about three main applications of radio in rural development contexts:

Rural and Community Radio,
Educational Radio, and
Radio for promoting good farming practices.

The Session, followed by some 20 people, proposed a first round of [...]

Prodding from the Share Fair 09

Thanks to Nadia Manning-Thomas, my friend in the KM4DEV list, for this interview to Geoff Parcell, who opened the Share Fair 09 with his keynote.
When asked about the highlights of the Fair, Geoff, who is in charge of the knowledge management for the WHO, UNDP, the World Bank and the Swiss Development Agency, noted:
“An additionally [...]