April 25, 2013

Because 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

April 23, 2013

Students 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

April 9, 2013

Michael 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

March 21, 2013

Seattle 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

March 19, 2013

The 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

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

March 12, 2013

Participants 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

March 8, 2013

We 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

March 7, 2013

GKI 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

March 3, 2013

Our friend, collaborator, and Penn State University assistant professor of entomology Dr. David Hughes has a venture aimed at sharing knowledge on gardening and farming that he’s started with Penn State biologist Dr. Marcel Salathe (check out Salathe’s lab here).They have designed their website, PlantVillage, to help people gard