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Picture Preview: Rwanda Coffee Collaboration Colloquium
March 21, 2014Participants, including UC-Riverside’s Dr. Thomas Miller, identify priority challenges for action. Photo Credit: GKI GKI wrapped up the Coffee Collaboration Colloquium on March 18, 2014 in Kigali, Rwanda and we’re proud to announce it was a great success. More details to come, but for now we’d like to thank our sponsors–Weath
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Ugandan Biotechnology Challenge Wins LINK IV Competition
March 4, 2014LINK IV Uganda focuses on providing plant material to farmers. Photo: GKI After an intensive review by an international Technical Committee of experts, the Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI) proudly announces the winner of the fourth round of our partnership-forging LINK (Learning and Innovation Network for Knowledge and Solution
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GKI Tackles Global Food Loss
February 25, 2014Ghanaian experts identify key bottlenecks to preventing post-harvest losses.Photo Credit: GKI Fact: one third of food harvested globally never reaches the plates of consumers. Food loss occurring between harvest and consumption caused by waste and spoilage threatens farmers’ livelihoods; consumers’ access to nutritious food; and
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GKI signs Memorandum of Understanding with Uganda National Council for Science & Technology
February 21, 2014Pedestrians walk through downtown Kampala, Uganda. Photo Credit: GKI. The Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI) is pleased to announce the formalization of a relationship we have long enjoyed with Uganda’s National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST). On 6 November 2013, GKI Program Officer Andrew Gerard (on behalf of Chief
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Thinking While Doing: What We’ve Been Reading, v. IV
February 14, 2014Looking for something new to read this weekend? Check out these suggestions from some of GKI’s fantastic staff. This fourth installation of our “What We’ve Been Reading” series is particularly exciting because it features selections from GKI’s two new interns, Karim Bin-Humam and Caroline Smeallie. Happy reading! Article: Irela
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GKI Trainings Broaden Reach
December 17, 2013Students at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) learn methods for collaborative innovation at a GKI trainingPhoto Credit: GKI 2013 saw tremendous growth in the scope of GKI’s training. We’ve developed new curricula and trained across several geographies, empowering a growing cohort of worldwide collaborative innovation expe
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Students, Researchers, and Community Members Initiate Water Challenge Collaboration in Air Papan, Malaysia
December 5, 2013The Air Papan Village Head and key community members sit with students, sharing those ideas for partnership that connect to their most pressing need: income generation. Photo Credit: GKI Settled onto the cool concrete floor of the boathouse, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) students furiously took notes as the fishermen of Ai
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Students and Communities Join Forces to Tackle Water Challenges in Malaysia
November 24, 2013
The countries of Southeast Asia struggle daily with this vexing conundrum: ample water, but much of it unsafe or unreliable. UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon states, “Water links the local to the regional, and brings together global questions of food security, public health, urbanization and energy. Addressing how we use and man
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LINK team carries out rainwater harvesting field research in Eastern Kenya
November 15, 2013Woman carries water to sand dam construction site in Kitui County. Photo: GKI Farmers in Kenya’s drylands use numerous techniques and technologies to capture the scant water that falls during rainy seasons. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) technologies, which range from simple to complex — and inexpensive to very expensive — also var
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Learning from those Pushing the Boundaries and Reaping the Benefits of Science and Innovation Policy
November 1, 2013Every so often, we are lucky enough to see the full spectrum of a challenge—from cutting edge research to glowing accounts of positive outcomes. As September drew to a close, GKI Chief Operating Officer Sara Farley had just such an experience with science and innovation policy. Sara traveled to Atlanta for the annual Atlanta Co