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Bullish on East African Dairy
May 28, 2014
There are many reasons to be optimistic about the dairy sector in East Africa; at the May 8, 2014 Dairy Value Chain Collaboration Colloquium, participants counted over 150 of them. To be exact, participants at the Dairy Value Chain Collaboration Colloquium in Kampala, Uganda identified 167 opportunities for partnership to take
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GKI Releases its Top 10 Tools for Collaborative Innovation
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
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Rwanda Collaboration Colloquium: Network Convenes in Rwanda to Solve Potato Taste Challenge
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
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GKI Expands Reach Of Global Collaborative Innovation Trainings
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
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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