A Knowledge Share Fair and a KM4Dev meeting in Colombia, May 2010: involving people in a rich environment of dialogue on agriculture and knowledge management in Latin America and the Caribbean

Abstract

During May 2010 the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) hosted two exciting events related to knowledge management (KM): The Knowledge Share Fair for Latin America and the Caribbean, funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and a regional meeting of the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community. Both events benefited from the enormous positive energy of its participants and the broad range of experiences that were shared. The Fair was attended by 200 professionals from more than 70 organizations and 18 countries and showcased more than 40 experiences related to KM in agriculture, development and food security. The affiliated KM4Dev meeting resulted in a strong endorsement of the existing regional network for KM called SIWA (Comunidad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Saberes Compartidos).

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1. www.km4dev.org.

2. http://www.km4dev.org/group/km4devfrancophone.

3. http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/Paginas/index.aspx.

4. http://www.sharefair.net/ciat-share-fair-cali/acerca-de-la-feria/en/?no_cache=1.

5. http://ictkm.cgiar.org/.

6. http://www.fao.org.

7. http://www.iica.int/Eng/Pages/default.aspx.

8. http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/.

9. http://siwa-comunidad.ning.com/.

10. Simone Staiger (CIAT, Colombia), Ana Maria Ponce (Consultant, Peru), Camilo Villa (Consultant, Colombia), Bertha Camacho (SKAT Foundation, Switzerland), Caridad Camacho (IRC, the Netherlands), John Smith (CPsquare and Learning Alliances, Oregon, USA), Kemly Camacho (Sulá Batsú, Costa Rica), Margarita Salas (Sulá Batsú, Costa Rica), Musuq Briceño (Mountain Forum Global Node & CONDESAN, Peru) and Sebastiao M. Ferreira (MIT, USA).

11. http://km4dev2010.wordpress.com/.