Knowledge Share Fair for Agricultural Development: Call for Proposals

Bioversity International, the CGIAR ICT-KM program, FAO, IFAD and WFP are jointly organizing a 3-day event entitled "Knowledge Share Fair for Agricultural Development and Food Security" on January 20 - 22, 2009.

The purpose of the event is to showcase examples of good knowledge sharing practices in the field of agricultural development and food security.

Please write a short story about your project/initiative. How do you effectively:

• Work in geographically distributed environments?
• Capture and share local (indigenous) knowledge, issues and ideas?
• Deal with culture and gender issues?
• Retain knowledge when workers leave?
• Build relationships or networks?
• Facilitate collaborative practices?
• Communicate internally?

Call for submission closes on 15 October 2008.

For further information, please visit www.sharefair.net/.