NEW: Weaving Success: Voices of Change in African Higher Education. Center for International Partnerships in Higher Education in Africa (PHEA) Book, by Megan Lindow, 2011.

KEN Best Practice Award 2012

The purpose of the Knowledge Economy Network (KEN) Award is to acknowledge exceptional achievement of policy makers and performance of stakeholders in various fields of knowledge economy, with particular emphasis on human capital. The key criteria of selection are: originality, effectiveness, and scope of impact of a certain policy, scheme, or organisation established with the purpose to contribute to knowledge economy developments in a country, a region, or a local community. Out of a total of five, one award will be presented to a case of comprehensive nature, and four awards will go to the best cases in the KEN domains:

(1) education and training – particularly tertiary education and business-academia partnership;
(2) research and development – with particular reference to support environment;
(3) innovation system, including social innovation; and
(4) entrepreneurship – with particular reference to role of women in business.

Deadline for submission of entries: 6 April 2012 - 18.00

PAERIP Newsletter - Issue #3. Promoting African European Research Infrastructure Partnerships (PAERIP) quarterly newsletter, December 2011.

Insights 1-1. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Periodical Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2011. 

Overselling Broadband: A Critique of the Recommendation of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development. Centre for Global Development (CGD) Essay, by Charles Kenny, December 2011.

Who and where are the science journalists? Scidev.net editorial, by Luisa Massarani, September 2, 2011.

Intermediary innovation, evaluation & collaboration. Report from the 4th I-K-Mediary workshop, January 24-26, 2011, Bangladesh, by Yaso Kunaratnam, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), June 2011.

Linked Open Information: Potential opportunities and pitfalls for international development. Draft workshop report by Keisha Taylor and Ginette Law for this IKM Emergent workshop held on November 15-16, 2010, in Oxford, United Kingdom. 

Social media: friend for foe? Report from Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research's annual meeting held in Halifax, Canada, on May 11, 2011.

Bangladesh Conference: Improving Research Infrastructures with Social Media. This workshop and evaluation report is intended as a source of inspiration for people interested in carrying out similar events. You can also read about this event that was carried out in Bangladesh in February 2011 on the website of Focuss. Info that co-organised the event with DDRN and other organisations.

Strengthening communication in N/S research partnerships for development. Presentations, pictures, video material, and a brief summary of the DDRN workshop held on March 7-9, 2011, at the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE), Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Morogoro, Tanzania.

ERINA4Africa final conference. Presentations from the Exploiting Research Infrastructures Potential for boosting Research and Innovation in Africa (ERINA4Africa) final conference held on December 9-10, 2010, in Helsinki, Finland.

Investigating African e-Infrastructure Applications of the Future. Presentations from an Exploiting Research Infrastructures Potential for boosting Research and Innovation in Africa (ERINA4Africa) workshop held on October 6-7, 2010, in Lilongwe, Malawi.

Improving the impact of development research through better research communications and uptake. Meeting report from the AusAID, Department for International Development (DFID) and UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS) funded workshop held on November 29-30, 2010, in London, United Kingdom.

‘Context is King’ in bridging research and policy. Summary of the session 'Research Shaping Policy: Latin America’s Experience' of the 12th Annual Global Development Conference held on January 14, 2010, in Bogotá, Colombia.

Research to Action Uptake workshop. Resources from the workshop 'Improving the impact of development research through better research communication and uptake' held on November 29-30, 2010, in London, England.

Reporting tax research: Connecting researchers and journalists for improved media coverage and debate in Kenya. This case study describes some of the methods and activities developed by the Relay programme, managed by Panos London, and how they were applied in Kenya to the issue of tax and governance, November 2010.

Towards an evidence-based development policy. Report, program and presentations from an event organised by 3ie and the London International Development Centre (LIDC) held on October 11, 2010, in London, England.

Social Affordances of New Media and Communication Technologies. Presentations available from seminar held at Roskilde University by Glocal NOMAD on October 7, 2010.

Mergers and acquisitions: integration of development institutions into bigger entities; what is the implication for research libraries, IT, and communication and information departments. Documentation from the 2010 EADI Information Management Working Group meeting in Bergen, Norway, on September 22-24, 2010.

Science communication for development. Highlights from a SciDev.Net event held in April 2010. An evening of interesting and informative discussion highlighting the importance of science communication and its impact on sustainable development, and the challenges faced in carrying this out effectively.

Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) Emergent Research Programme, Newsletter No. 4, July 2010.

Writing convincing research proposals and effective scientific reports: a learning module. Part A: writing a convincing proposal. International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) workshop report by S.D. Baguma, P. Anandajayasekeram, and R. Puskur, March 2010.

Writing convincing research proposals and effective scientific reports: a learning module. Part B: scientific writing. International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) workshop report by S.D. Baguma, P. Anandajayasekeram, and R. Puskur, March 2010.

Knowledge to policy: Making the most of development research. Report from public event organised by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), April 29, 2010 - London, UK.

Lessons Learnt in Research Communicaton: DFID’s 10% policy on communicating Research: Successes, challenges and next steps. Report of a lesson-learning workshop held on July 22, 2008, DFID, December 2008.

Strengthening communication in N/S research partnerships for development. Reporting from DDRN event: August 12â€�14, 2009 - Initute of Continuing Education (ICE), Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Morogoro, Tanzania.

Improving the Dialogue with Society on Scientific Issues. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Global Science Forum workshop report, Paris - September 17-18, 2008.

Documentation from first Knowledge Share Fair for Agricultural Development and Food Security. Bioversity International, the CGIAR ICT-KM program, FAO, IFAD and WFP jointly organised a 3-day event entitled at FAO Headquarters on January 20–22, 2009. The aim was to support collective action by providing better ways to share and learn, as well as better ways of working, both within organizations and when dealing with partners and stakeholders.

29th International Council for Science (ICSU) General Assembly. Report on the interaction between politicians, policy-makers and scientists on Science in Africa at the 29th GA of ICSU held in Mozambique, October 2008.

Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) Emergent Research Programme, Newsletter No. 3, March 2009.

Power of In-Between Conference: How research brokers and intermediaries support evidence-based pro-poor policy and practice. Report from conference held in July 2008, South Africa.

Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) Emergent Research Programme, Newsletter No. 2, June 2008.

First issue of the Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) Emergent Research Programme Newsletter, November 12, 2007.