Many voices in the CGIAR are calling for a new emphasis in the work of the international agricultural research centers on knowledge sharing, learning, and innovation. Over the last year or so, the Knowledge Sharing (KS) Project of the CGIAR's ICT-KM Program has demonstrated concretely how we can collectively bring about this change. The project focused mainly on major meetings as an opportunity for introducing Knowledge Sharing (KS) attitudes, methods and tools into our organizations. Meeting participants experiment and discover new ways of establishing collegial relationships and help them to evolve towards a more creative scientific collaboration. This magazine-style report documents the four pilot initiatives carried out by the KS Project, jointly by CIAT, CIFOR, CIMMYT, and IWMI, in partnership with the Bellanet International Secretariat at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Canada, from around mid-2004 to late 2005. It is designed to spark the interest of all those in the CGIAR centers and their partner organizations who seek to make better use of the scientific and related knowledge available within the global agricultural research community.
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