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Rockefeller Foundation Names GKI one of 100 “Next Century Innovators”
April 26, 2013From GKI Chief Operating Officer, Sara Farley: Dear Friends, I write to share the exhilarating news that the Global Knowledge Initiative’s program, Learning and Innovation Networks for Knowledge and Solutions (LINK), which brings people and organizations together around big development goals, was just recognized as one of the wo
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Thinking While Doing: What We’ve Been Reading, Round II
April 25, 2013Because we read quite a few interesting articles, books, and reports while going about our work, we thought it would be nice and potentially helpful to share now and again. In the last few weeks, many members of the GKI team have spent substantial time poring over research on dynamics of successful teams, how design thinking can
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New research collaboration with Rwanda Ministry of Education & UNECA
April 23, 2013Students in Butare, RwandaHappening Now: A GKI team is headed to Rwanda to work with the Rwanda Ministry of Education and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to analyze Rwanda’s Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Policy seven years after its publication. We will identify areas of success, challenges
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Makerere-Penn State Team wins 2013 Africa Collaboration Challenge Prize
April 9, 2013Michael Kansiime speaks at Africa Collaboration Colloquium. Photo: PSU The Global Knowledge Initiative and Penn State University are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2013 Africa Collaboration Challenge Prize. A research team composed of Michael Kansiime and John Kabasa from AFRISA (African Institute for Strategic Animal
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Featured Collaborator: Dr. Susan Jackels, Seattle University
March 21, 2013Seattle University student Angelica Omaiye (left) and Dr. Susan Jackels (right) performing coffee research Meet Susan Jackels, our featured collaborator. One of the most fulfilling parts of solving development challenges through collaboration is having the opportunity to work with researchers who are pushing the boundaries of th
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GKI nominated for Rockefeller Foundation Award
March 19, 2013The Global Knowledge Initiative has been nominated for a Rockefeller Foundation Next Century Innovators Award. We’ve been contacted by the Rockefeller Foundation to let us know of our nomination, and are crossing our fingers that we make it all the way! The Foundation will choose 100 innovators/innovative organizations to featur
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GKI’S LINK Program Named One of the Global Top 100 Social Innovations for the Next Century
March 18, 2013
Photo Credit: Sara Farley The Global Knowledge Initiative’s flagship partnership-forging program (LINK, which stands for the Learning and Innovation Network for Knowledge and Solutions) has been awarded an exciting honor. Selected from more than 1000 nominations, GKI’s LINK has been dubbed one of the world’s top 100 most transfo
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Kenya Stakeholder Dialogue on Water Harvesting: See After-Action Report Here
March 12, 2013Participants at the Stakeholder Dialogue and Workshop on Water Harvesting in Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands, Kenyatta University In January, a group of us from GKI were in Kenya with Dr. Kennedy Mwetu and the LINK Kenya team. The trip was exciting for a number of reasons, including having the chance to visit farmers in Kitui C
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Thinking while Doing: What the GKI Team Read this Week
March 8, 2013We read a lot of interesting articles/websites/books in the course of working to solve development challenges through collaboration. This reading ranges from articles on processes we want to implement, such as pieces on better measurements for network success, to content-based web stories on water use in Malaysia or food securit
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GKI Announces Two New Internship Opportunities
March 7, 2013GKI Interns Jason Clark (left) and Andrew Bergmanson (right) at 2012 Africa Collaboration ColloquiumThe Global Knowledge Initiative seeks to fill two internship positions starting on May 20, 2013. These unpaid internships are open to current graduate students in the Washington, DC area, and are for a minimum of 6 months (through