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ILRI ‘livestock live talk seminars’ Presentation by task force (Ewen Le Borgne, Iain Wright, Silvia Silvestri, Susan MacMillan, Vish Nene) Connecting the dots, seeing the bigger picture, achieving more impact

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ILRI ‘ livestock live talk seminars’ Presentation by task force ( Ewen Le Borgne , Iain Wright, Silvia Silvestri , Susan MacMillan, Vish Nene) Connecting the dots, seeing the bigger picture, achieving more impact. Overview. Why these seminars? What we propose? Who ’ s involved? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: ILRI ‘ livestock live talk  seminars’ Presentation by task force

ILRI ‘livestock live talk seminars’

Presentation by task force

(Ewen Le Borgne, Iain Wright, Silvia Silvestri, Susan MacMillan, Vish Nene)

Connecting the dots, seeing the bigger picture, achieving more impact

Page 2: ILRI ‘ livestock live talk  seminars’ Presentation by task force

Overview

1. Why these seminars?

2. What we propose?

3. Who’s involved?

4. When and where?

5. What next?

6. What else?

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Why these seminars?

• ILRI now holds lots of seminars with little:

• Promotion

• Relevance for all of us

• Attendance / participation

• Documentation

• Impact

We want to improve this!

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Why these seminars?

• Our ‘livestock live talk seminars’ should:

• Map existing ILRI work ‘out loud’

• Make better use of in-house expertise

• Tap into visitors’ experiences

• Engage with thought leaders on inspiring issues

• Unlock the power of interdisciplinary research

• Raise and change our game as an open, vibrant, cutting edge livestock research institute

• Achieve more impact via joined up thinking, actions and connections, inside and outside

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What we propose? (1)

• A regular series of seminars to ‘increase awareness of ILRI staff and partners of research topics of importance to ILRI, including the wider research context, and to provide a space and platform for conversations’.

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What we propose? (2)

• Monthly one-hour seminars:

• either 20 minutes presentation (max); assigned ‘questioners’ (people commenting the presentation) Interaction around presenter’s questions or 40 minutes ‘lectures’ + 20 minutes for Q&A (for visitors).

• Facilitated in Nairobi/Addis

• Involving all ILRI offices (via WebEx)

• Promoted properly and consistently

• Enhanced through a ‘dry run’ (except visitor seminars)

• Documented live (on Yammer) and later (on a blog post, with online presentation and possibly pictures)

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What we propose? (3)

• Topics planned (examples):

• Livestock-associated diseases

• Research in vs. for development

• The mobile phone-enabled farming future?

• Livestock and the climate change community

• Pastoral research back on the agenda?

• And many other relevant topics, including the series of big ideas (running in parallel)

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Who’s involved? (1)

• To organize the series?

• Our task force (Ewen, Iain, Silvia, Susan, Vish, Tezira)

• To give the seminars?

• Any ILRI staff (anywhere)

• Any visitor that has something interesting to share

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Who’s involved? (2)

• To attend?

• ILRI staff across all locations (see how next slide)

• Partners that can join our ILRI offices

• Anyone…

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When and where?

• When?

• Every last Wednesday of the month, 3-4pm (EAT)

• And opportunistically with visitors

• Where?

• In rotation between Nairobi, Addis and other offices

• On WebEx for virtual participants

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What next?

• Your approval

• Next seminars for 2012 to plan

• An organized routine to run seminars

• Good communication with staff, esp. contact regional offices for feedback and inputs

• Planned start in late August / September

• Short review after first try-out

• More in-depth review after 3 seminars

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Schedule 2012

• Wednesday 29 August: Livestock diseases

• Wednesday 26 September: Research in/for development

• Wednesday 31 October: Mobile phone-enabled farming

• Wednesday 28 November: Livestock and climate change

• Wednesday 19 December: Pastoral research

• Interspersed with Big Idea seminars (two per month until the end of the year)

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What else?

• The other seminars: Theme/team seminars (including from visiting scholars), PhD & PostDoc seminars

• What we suggest:

• - We can offer guidance & support: share our checklist to organize events, coach on public speaking, support scheduling, design (facilitation), documentation, promotion

• - But we cannot organize or streamline these other seminars. For now, we want to have a good routine in place

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What else?

• Possible connection with CG-wide Addis campus seminars

• Connection with Town Halls

• We need strong and reliable ICT facilities

• And some budget to invite speakers (USD 5.000)

• What do you think?

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