Announcing the AI4Resilience Challenge Winners
Accelerating Innovation for Resilience Challenge announces Winners.
Common Challenges When Implementing an Organizational Learning Plan and What to Do About Them
As organizational learning professionals, we are frequently asked about how to create an organizational learning plan and how to put it into practice. This is the third blog — a grand finale if you will — of a three-part blog series on this topic.
How to Co-Create an Organizational Learning Plan
As learning professionals, we get asked a lot about organizational learning plans. There is a lack of good resources out there on how to create them, including publicly available examples. This blog is part two in a three-part series and focuses on how to actually create an organizational learning plan.
What is an Organizational Learning Plan? Why Do You Need One?
An organizational learning plan outlines how an organization will create, acquire, analyze, share, and use learning. In this series, we share our thoughts on what an organizational learning plan is, how to create one, and most importantly how to implement it so that what is included in the plan actually gets done.
Global Knowledge Initiative Publishes New Report on the Role of Innovation in Transforming Food Systems in Emerging Markets
Washington D.C., USA: The Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI), with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, has published a report examining how innovation can help improve food systems in emerging markets over the next 20 years. Recognizing the profound, large-scale changes happening around the world and the staggering amount of food that is lost on its way…
GKI Unveils New Resource to Support Innovation in Global Development
For immediate release: September 15th, 2017 Improving the Ability to Make Decisions that Advance Organizational Innovation Washington D.C., USA: New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE) reveals that the approach used by many organizations to assess and adopt innovation is subpar. Lacking are better processes to understand…
When Simple is Difficult: Agriculture Technology in the Age of Innovation
This post was originally featured on the Chicago Council of Global Affairs’ Blog, Global Food For Thought As a US Peace Corps Volunteer in a rural Ugandan village in 2010, I never expected my neighbors to own satellite TVs. We couldn’t buy carrots at a market within a 30-kilometer radius. I planted beans with my…
An AUSpicious Journey: GKI’s New Partnership in Australia
Current evidence points to the fact that the world is more educated, healthy, and safe than ever before. In the Asia Pacific region specifically, the last several decades have seen major economic growth in the age of globalization and information technology. However, despite greater access to information and greater capacity to address complex challenges, large…