Colleagues This is a polite reminder. The CGIAR consortium does not exist after July so we changed our email signature to say ‘ILRI is a CGIAR research centre‘ instead of any mention of the consortium. Please take a few minutes to update it. Further information and guidance is at https://announcements.ilri.org/2016/07/20/please-update-your-ilri-email-signature/ and http://ict.worldagroforestry-ilri.org/node/366 We also updated … Continue reading
Author Archives: Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)
Publishing and communications guidelines update
Some years ago, ILRI management approved an institutional strategy on research publishing with overall information on goals and channels we use. This is supplemented by several guidelines covering specific process and procedures on different aspects of this work. Below is a list of all these guidelines. Guidelines 2, 3 and 4 date from 2013 and … Continue reading
Nairobi Infocentre re-organization
Colleagues Some of you will/may notice some ongoing changes in the Nairobi infocentre space. We are re-organizing the space to provide better quiet areas and study space as well as working space for the CKM people located there. Most of this should be completed later this week. There are no engineering works at this time; … Continue reading
Reminder on ILRI communications, templates, etc.
This message aims to remind staff where powerpoint and letterhead and document templates – and some other useful communication resources – can be found: We use ILRI announcements as the primary mechanism to broadcast (and remember) updates to all staff. This was decided late in 2014 as a way to reduce the number of messages … Continue reading
New ILRI letterhead and powerpoint templates
To promote consistency across ILRI, management has produced updated word templates to be used for all letters and correspondence. The standard ILRI powerpoint template has also been updated. ICT services have auto-installed these files on all ILRI staff computers in Nairobi and Addis Ababa. We will send the files to country and regional offices for … Continue reading
Science Forum in Addis next week – update on plans
CGIAR staff in Addis will hopefully be aware of the science forum taking please here next week. The formal sessions start on Tuesday at UNECA and end Thursday afternoon. On Tuesday afternoon, from 1600-1900 approximately, the ILRI campus hosts a knowledge marketplace for participants and partners. The space between Lalibela auditorium and the genebank will … Continue reading
Help improve the Livestock CRP proposal – contribute your ideas and experiences
As you know, CGIAR centres and partners are currently developing a portfolio of second phase ‘agri-food system’ research programs. As part of this process, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is leading development of a phase 2 livestock Agri-food Systems research program proposal. Building on past work in the Livestock and Fish and other programs, … Continue reading
Update on changes and developments in communications and knowledge management
In July last year, ILRI’s two teams – public awareness and knowledge management and information services – merged to form communications and knowledge management (CKM). As part of the re-grouping, we also strengthened links between the CKM team and the wider set of communications people embedded in projects and programs – as a community of … Continue reading
Making your research more visible – 5 tools for ILRI authors, scientists, staff
ILRI’s communications and KM group has put in place many institutional mechanisms and tools to make ILRI research visible on the Internet and beyond (CGSpace for example). Increasingly, individual authors and scientists can do a lot more of this themselves. Here are 5 things you can do to make your ILRI work more visible (it … Continue reading
ILRI@40 final update
This message was sent by Shirley Tarawali on 25 May 2015 As you will surely remember, last year was extra special for ILRI. 2014 marked 40 years since the creation of ILRI (1994) and its forerunners: ILRAD (1973) and ILCA (1974). To mark this institutional milestone ILRI organized several events bringing together global, regional and local actors … Continue reading
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