Can we live with less plastic bottles?

Can we invent a new future without all of this?

What you see in this image is the average day production of a medium size business building, in one of our cities. Estimates say around 2.500/3.000 bottles sold every day to satisfy people drinking needs. And this is only a drop in the ocean of plastic [...]

CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE

CHANGE seems to be the KEY word all over the world these days.
At FAO, two main events just took place last week. The Organization is undertaking a deep and serious process of internal restructuring. After the IEE (Independent External Evaluation) report, which suggested many and different changes in the strategy, the approach and the structure, [...]

Visiting the radio and video studio of FAO

Some days ago a group of communicators working for different services of FAO had a very interesting visit to the radio and video studio of the organization.

Ten of us, part of the “bluebar” communicators list, spent the morning with the responsible for the infrastructure debating on: how to use the facility, the recent and past [...]

Share Fair 2009

A nice briefing session started today the “public” activities of the Share Fair 2009 that the Rome based UN organizations (FAO, IFAD, WFP, CGIAR, ICT-KM Program and Bioversity International) are preparing for late January 2009.

Gauri and Steve introduced the event, the basic principles and the collaborative spirit that are behind it. Now all departments and [...]

In My Name

I find this initiative pretty interesting:
Youtube with Oxfam, Save the children, CARE and other organizations, is launching this video channel on the web, called “In my name“, to influence world leaders about the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. As Youtube states in its official blog:
“… through November 1, visit www.youtube.com/inmyname [...]

FAO HLC and the attitude to share

FAO is doing a huge effort to produce and distribute a long list of content about the actual High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy.
The website is a good channel to be virtually and ideally in touch with the event: the video, the pictures, the speeches and other material are [...]

New TEMPORARY job!!

These weeks I’ll be pretty busy with this new temporary job as Liaison officer with media broadcasters at FAO during the High-Level Conference on World Food Security that will take place in Rome from 3 to 5 June 2008.
I’m very interested in knowing more about the media/TV business and the way it works during such [...]

Web2forDev

Ok, it is now open and living: it is the Web2forDev Conference, held in Rome at FAO Headquarters, from 25 to 27 September, 2007.
The title talk about participation to support development. I’m really looking forward to see if people will focus on tools and technologies OR on the “2″ of the title, that stands for: [...]

WCCD – World Conference on Communication for Development

A very good occasion for us interested in Communication for development: The first World Congress on Communication for Development is going to take place in Rome, Italy the 25, 26 and 27 of October, 2006.
It is a very good occasion to meet and talk about our different way to approach the problem of communicating in [...]