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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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PlantVillage helps people get answers on growing food, from Penn State to Kenya
March 3, 2013Our 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
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Sara Farley Deconstructs Network Difficulties at AAAS Annual Meeting
February 22, 2013Every year, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, thousands of scientists, researchers, and policymakers gather to discuss the year’s most exciting, challenging, and relevant developments. This year, at the Boston event (held February 14-18) GKI Chief Operating Officer Sara Farley joi
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Training-of-Trainers on Innovation in Tanzania: Refreshing and Revisiting
February 15, 2013GKI’s Sara Farley helps students at NM-AISTBack in August, we teamed up with UNESCO and the Nelson Mandela Africa Institute of Science and Technology to conduct a Training-of-Trainers program on innovation management skills in Tanzania. During our first visit we trained trainers on the fundamentals of the skills needed for coll
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Kenyatta University and GKI sign Memorandum of Understanding
February 4, 2013Kenyatta University Deputy Vice Rector Prof. John Okumu and GKI Chief Operating Officer Sara Farley sign MOUAt a ceremony held at Kenyatta University on January 10, 2013 GKI Chief Operating Officer Sara Farley and Kenyatta University Deputy Vice Rector Prof. John Okumu signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) linking the two o
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Water Harvesting Research in Kitui
January 15, 2013Despite recent, heavy rains, that have given Kenya’s Kitui County a lush, green feel, it remains water scarce. From January 7-9, a GKI team, along with Dr. Kennedy Mwetu of Kenyatta University, Dr. Patrick Kariuki of South Eastern University College, Prof. Anthony Egeru of Makerere University, and a number of others visited Kitu