Knowledge sharing is ...

At the recent 'sharefair' in Rome, participants recorded short video responses to the question: "What's the added value of knowledge sharing to your work and your organization?"

The responses show that knowledge sharing is seen to be:

• nothing but an added value
  
• gets research results out
  
• helps cross fertilization among dispersed centers
  
• is determined by the culture of an organisation
  
• helps delivering on poverty reduction strategies
  
• is key to create links across different sectoral issues
  
• to come up with innovative solutions
  
• to do business in a different way
  
• helps us to get the story from the field
  
• makes organisations more efficient
  
• is necessary to do complex work in a complex world
  
• has multiplier effects
  
• brings in new experiences
  
• enhances cooperation among organisations
  
• is the most effective way to learn new things
  
• is power!
  
• connects people that work on the same problems
  
• reaches the part of your body that other sort of work doesn't
  
• to change the way FAO does business and contribute to the development process
  
• creates and sustains the value of research
  
• is part of our life!
  
• is a social process
  
• is essential to develop projects that do work
  
• is a process

FAO's Stephen Rudgard argues that by sharing properly, we can achieve results that otherwise would take much longer to achieve:

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