As the coordinator of Day 0 at the AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair, I (Nadia) wanted to expose participants to a mix of tools and methods that they could use to ‘make their ag knowledge travel’ in a feasible, realistic and meaningful way for their particular activities, in their contexts and for the people with whom they want to share it. This meant that the newer, exciting social media tools such as blogs as well as videos HAD to be on the agenda as two popular ways of communicating nowadays. A session on collaborative writing and a delegation from Google to offer sessions on Geo Tools and Collaborative Tools were organized by the CGIAR ICT-KM Program. Other session ideas were put forward such as the one on ‘making the most of the media’ by Susann Thorp of WrenMedia and the one on Mendeley by Katarlah Taylor (IFPRI). And of course we couldn’t forget the wide array of useful and fun, face-to-face knowledge sharing methods (many of which can be found in the KS Toolkit).
