ILRI Comms project insight 2014:
Web developments
Daniel Hailemichael
CKM Team Meeting
Addis Ababa, 2-4 February 2015

ILRI.org
 ILRI.ORG is a branded ‘front door’
introducing what ILRI does to different
audiences (investors, partners, policy
makers etc.) conveying ILRI’s values and
messages to the world.
 It is an online storefront to ILRI’s
knowledge and products (aggregated
and organized).
 It leads people to more information and
who to interact and share with
ALL IN ONE !!!

Our activities
https://www.ilri.org
 New server on Amazon
(24/7)
 Upgrade core Drupal and
contributed modules
 Standardize taxonomies :
CRP, Programs, Regions
 Aggregated pages for CRP,
Programs, Regions and
Teams
 ILRI@40 (40.ilri.org)
 Acronyms
(http://ilri.org/acronyms)
 Secure login access to
different resources (future
ILRInet)
Other projects:
 DAGRIS
 FEAST aggregator
 Technical Consortium
website
 CGSpace technical
 NBDC CD
 POD microsite
 Consultant roster
 Review tool

Our plans
https://ilri.org
 Revamp ILRI website
• Feel and look (design
team)
• Using existing
information architecture
• Build on POD micro-site
elements
• Explore more
graphic/visualizations of
our knowledge
 Integrate Dspace content into
Drupal (using REST API)
 Redesign ILRInet (secure
login within the website; link
to OCS)
Projects
 DAGRIS
 POD microsite and consultant
roster
 Ethiopian Ag. Portal
 Some sort of ILRI ‘apps’?
 Recruit additional
drupal/linux expertise

What we learned
• Team work (It requires the coordination of a different team)
• Collaborate with content managers
• Close follow up with bloggers
• Close contact with focal persons (communication persons of Programs)
• Refresh training
 Proper tagging (Countries,Regions,CRP,Programs etc)
 ilri.org content structure
 How content harvest from different media

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