May 31, 2013

We our happy to welcome our two newest interns, Srujana Penumetcha and Colin Huerter. Both will be joining us as international program interns, and both are about to begin the second year of their Master of Public Policy degrees at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. We will put their bios on the GKI website soon, but in the

May 23, 2013

GKI Team members and farmers from Inuka Association examine a shallow well in Kitui County, Kenya This week, the US Agency for International Development released its first ever Water and Development Strategy (2013-2018). We at the Global Knowledge Initiative were thrilled by this important step, both because of the importance of

May 13, 2013

GKI’s Sara Farley with Uganda National Council for Science and Technology’s Dr. Peter Ndemere (left) and Kenya National Council for Science and Technology’s M.K. Rugut (Right) A group of over 100 policymakers, industrial representatives, academicians, and others met at the Kigali Health Institute on May 2, 2013 to kick off a rev

April 26, 2013

From 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

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