May 15, 2014

The premier challenges of today—mitigating climate change, ensuring energy security, reducing food loss—are complex and multi-sectoral.  They confound the efforts of individuals working alone.  Creating lasting solutions to these and other global problems requires the collective work of many problem solvers who pursue common goa

April 15, 2014

“Your presence here is a vote of confidence in Rwandan coffee,” George Kayonga, head of Rwanda’s National Agricultural Export Development Board (NAEB), told Coffee Research Symposium attendees on March 17. A vote of confidence, in this case, as over 150 representatives from academia, private sector, government, and international

April 13, 2014

Researchers from UTM use collaborative innovation skills to engage the community of Air Papan, Malaysia. Photo Credit: GKI 2013 saw tremendous growth in the scope of GKI’s training program. We use experiential training, simulations, and interactives to demystify the how-to of working together to solve a common challenge. Mining

March 21, 2014

Participants, 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

March 4, 2014

LINK 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

February 25, 2014

Ghanaian 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

February 21, 2014

Pedestrians 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

February 14, 2014

Looking 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

December 17, 2013

Students 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

December 5, 2013

The 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