1. The document summarizes the Communication, Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) component of the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS).
2. It outlines the CIKM results so far, including organizing symposia, an agricultural extension week, establishing a website and social media accounts, and developing frameworks and guides.
3. It then describes the current CIKM tools - which include the AFAAS website, virtual platform, visibility plan, and social media accounts - and challenges faced by the CIKM component, such as low capacity to use web tools, poor internet connectivity, and multilingual issues.
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CCSAFS (2016-2019): An Overview of AchievementsESD UNU-IAS
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Prof. Nelly Kostoulas, University of Crete & Prof. Vassilios Makrakis, Frederick University & University of Crete
Europe Regional Meeting 2019
13-14 September, 2019, Heraklion, Greece
Multi stakeholder analysis NIPOFERD: success for knowledge transferFrancois Stepman
Presentation by C. Uchegbu of the Department of Animal Science and Technology, Federal University of Technology, Owerri.
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Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
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Le Forum pour le Recherche Agricole en Afrique (FARA) et le Forum Européen sur le Recherche Agricole pour le Développement (EFARD) à travers l’Alliance Européenne sur la Connaissance Agricole pour le Développement (AGRINATURA) ont joint leurs efforts dans la mise en place de la Plate forme pour le partenariat Afrique-Europe sur le Développement Agricole (PAEPARD), élaborée avec le financement de l’Union Européenne. Parmi les problèmes abordés par la PAERPARD on peut citer : la faible capacité des Organisations Africaines de Connaissance Agricole, aux niveaux régional et national, et sur le partenariat multi-acteurs pour les systèmes d’innovation ; le manque de relations effective entre la recherche, la vulgarisation et le développement rural.
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A Scoping study of the evolving institutional structures for the delivery of ...Hillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
26 November 2018. The Platform for Africa-Europe Partnership on Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD) supports since 2009 research collaboration between a wide range of organizations in Africa and Europe.
GCARD2: Briefing paper North-South and South-South Collaborative ActionsGCARD Conferences
The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD) through The European Alliance on Agricultural Knowledge for Development (AGRINATURA), joined forces in the implementation of the Platform for African-European Partnership on Agricultural Development (PAEPARD), established with funding from the European Union. Among the problems addressed by PAEPARD are: insufficient capacities of African agricultural knowledge organisations, at regional and national levels, on multi-stakeholder partnership for innovation systems; lack of effective linkages between research, extension and rural development.
Visit the conference site for more information: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
Le Forum pour le Recherche Agricole en Afrique (FARA) et le Forum Européen sur le Recherche Agricole pour le Développement (EFARD) à travers l’Alliance Européenne sur la Connaissance Agricole pour le Développement (AGRINATURA) ont joint leurs efforts dans la mise en place de la Plate forme pour le partenariat Afrique-Europe sur le Développement Agricole (PAEPARD), élaborée avec le financement de l’Union Européenne. Parmi les problèmes abordés par la PAERPARD on peut citer : la faible capacité des Organisations Africaines de Connaissance Agricole, aux niveaux régional et national, et sur le partenariat multi-acteurs pour les systèmes d’innovation ; le manque de relations effective entre la recherche, la vulgarisation et le développement rural.
Visitez le site web de la GCARD2 pour plus d'informations: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
The Initiative: “Linking smallholder farmers to commercialization practices: the case of Farmers Organizations in the Kenyan dairy sector” is a joint learning initiative promoted by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) and Procasur developed under the Large Regional IFAD-Procasur Grant Programme "Strengthening Capacities and tools to scale up and disseminate Innovations" (2016-2018). This topic was selected resting on the consolidated results of the (i) online survey lunched by PROCASUR in April 2016 in the ESA region, (ii) in depth interviews to project managers of IFAD funded projects in the ESA region, and (iii) experts’ consultation undertaken among specialists in the area of Farmers Organizations.
The Water Filling Model and The Cube Test: Multi-Dimensional Evaluation for P...Grace Yang
This talk describes the Cube Test, an IR evaluation metric that we create for measuring system effectiveness for the entire information seeking process. Featuring modeling of a cap to stop (task completion), multiple subtopics, time aspect, subtopic importance, subtopic relatedness, volume of gain.
Ranking Objects by Following Paths in Entity-Relationship Graphs (PhD Worksho...Minsuk Kahng
Minsuk Kahng, Sangkeun Lee, and Sang-goo Lee, "Ranking Objects by Following Paths in Entity-Relationship Graphs", Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and Knowledge Management (PhD Workshop at CIKM 2011), 2011.
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Semantic Tags Generation and Retrieval for Online Advertising - CIKM 2010Roku
One of the main problems in online advertising is to display ads which are relevant and appropriate \wrt what the user is looking for. Often search engines fail to reach this goal as they do not consider semantics attached to keywords. In this paper we propose a system that tackles the problem by two different angles: help (i) advertisers to create more efficient ads campaigns and (ii) ads providers to properly match ads content to keywords in search engines.
We exploit semantic relations stored in the DBpedia dataset and use an hybrid ranking system to rank keywords and to expand queries formulated by the user. Inputs of our ranking system are (i) the DBpedia dataset; (ii) external information sources such as classical search engine results and social tagging systems.
We compare our approach with other RDF similarity measures, proving the validity of our algorithm with an extensive evaluation involving real users.
Leveraging Joint Interactions for Credibility Analysis in News CommunitiesSubhabrata Mukherjee
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CIKM 2013 Tutorial: Real-time Bidding: A New Frontier of Computational Advert...Shuai Yuan
Computational Advertising has been an important topical area in information retrieval and knowledge management. This tutorial will be focused on real-time advertising, aka Real-Time Bidding (RTB), the fundamental shift in the field of computational advertising. It is strongly related to CIKM areas such as user log analysis and modelling, information retrieval, text mining, knowledge extraction and management, behaviour targeting, recommender systems, personalization, and data management platform.
This tutorial aims to provide not only a comprehensive and systemic introduction to RTB and computational advertising in general, but also the emerging research challenges and research tools and datasets in order to facilitate the research. Compared to previous Computational Advertising tutorials in relevant top-tier conferences, this tutorial takes a fresh, neutral, and the latest look of the field and focuses on the fundamental changes brought by RTB.
We will begin by giving a brief overview of the history of online advertising and present the current eco-system in which RTB plays an increasingly important part. Based on our field study and the DSP optimisation contest organised by iPinyou, we analyse optimization problems both from the demand side (advertisers) and the supply side (publishers), as well as the auction mechanism design challenges for Ad exchanges. We discuss how IR, DM and ML techniques have been applied to these problems. In addition, we discuss why game theory is important in this area and how it could be extended beyond the auction mechanism design.
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We expect the audience, after attending the tutorial, to understand the real-time online advertising mechanisms and the state of the art techniques, as well as to grasp the research challenges in this field. Our motivation is to help the audience acquire domain knowledge and obtain relevant datasets, and to promote research activities in RTB and computational advertising in general.
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The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) is a £1.5 billion fund to support cutting-edge research which addresses the problems faced by developing countries. GCRF forms part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment.
Innovate UK has recently secured GCRF funding to extend activities initiated through the Department for International Development (DFID) funded Agri-Tech Catalyst.
This new initiative aims to realise sustainable management of the food production systems in Africa in a way that alleviates poverty, enhances economic prosperity and delivers improved wellbeing, with key outcomes including:
- sustainable intensification of African agriculture
- improvements in human health and diversity of diets and nutrition
- positive impacts on rural income and food security
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prepared. Special lectures were established in order to stimulate demands of stakeholders for new tools
and methods of using on-line open data for agriculture production, context and sharing data in on line
repositories. There were prepared first set of scenarios, focused on good agriculture practices and also
first material focused on data fusion. The Training Material for FOODIE has following parts:
Introduction – a general four-step process been modified for each pilot. These four steps include:
building the initial scenarios, vision building workshops, testing of initial scenarios, and user requirements collection workshops.
Chapters for training - the first material for methods used in sustainable agriculture was already
prepared by project partners. There are two categories: Methods of Farm Management and Software Components and Tools of Farm Management.
Conclusion defining next steps - initial Training materials have been created. Training related to tools will be organized in later stage. Vision building workshops will be organized during Months 13 – 14.
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CIKM Presentation at the AFAAS Review Workshop Addis-Ababa 15 oct 2014
1. African Forum for Agricultural
Advisory Services
Communication, Information and Knowledge Management
Component
Presented at the:
Review of the progress in implementation of the AFAAS Strategy and Medium Term
Operational Plan (MTOP) workshop
by:
Emmanuel ATENGA , CIKM Officer
Beshale Hotel, Addis Ababa
15 October 2014
2. SUMMARY
1. WHY CIKM COMPONENT?
2. CIKM RESULTS SO FAR
3. CIKM FREMAWORK
4. CIKM TOOLS
5. CHALLENGES
6. PLAN 2015
3. 1. WHY CIKM COMPONENT?
• CIKM Component shall design and implement an information
and knowledge management strategy that enables AAS
stakeholders to network with each other, to access information
from external sources including research and farmers, and to
generate new knowledge themselves.
4. 2. CIKM RESULTS SO FAR
1. Three Symposia organised ( 2004, 2007 & 2011);
2. One Africa Agricultural Extension Week in 2013 in Botswana;
Second planed for 2015 in Addis Ababa in partnership with
AUC and MoARD Ethiopia;
3. A website, Social medias and a Virtual platform;
5. 2. CIKM RESULTS SO FAR
4. A conceptual framework for lesson learning
developed;
5. A guide for Piloting Market Oriented AEAS;
6. Study on targeting Women Advisory Service Providers
& Capacity Development Programmes;
7. Study on how issues of Climate Change are being
addressed in AEAS
7. 4. CIKM TOOLS
a) AFAAS Website: www.afaas-Africa.org
It is a tool for communication, Information and visibility around the world. Its
management depends on the quality control content.
b) Virtual Platform: networking.afaas-africa.org
Tool for enabling AEAS actors to network for purposes, among other things, sharing
experiences, finding solutions to everyday problems that they face, accessing global
knowledge.
c) AFAAS-EU Visibility Plan (CVP):
This Communication and Visibility Plan is designed in conformity to general
EU guidelines currently in force and targets actions that are wholly or
partially funded by the European Union (EU). It is to be implemented by
AFAAS and its Country Fora (CF), which bring together diverse actors and
stakeholders from grassroots to the national, regional and international
levels.
8. 4. CIKM TOOLS
d) AFAAS Social Medias (Facebook Page, Twitter, Flickr Slideshare):
Their roles are to improve AFAAS visibility by communicating and
informing about AFAAS and CF activities on social medias.
e) AFAAS Brochures and Publications
9. 5. CHALLENGES
1. Lack of communication on CIKM needs from CF;
2. Low and varied capacity of key stakeholders to migrate to
web-based social media tools, eg: Virtual Platform,
Facebook, Twitter(where they are supposed to share
information and experiences);
3. Poor internet connectivity;
4. Poor culture of information and experience exchange;
5. Dealing with Multilanguage culture.
10. 6. PLAN 2015
1. CIKM capacity building in the level of CF;
2. Develop overall CIKM strategy for AFAAS;
3. Recruitment of CIKM Facilitators for established CF;
4. Translation of AFAAS key documents into French and
Portuguese (Constitution, Procurement and financial
Guidelines, Brochures…).
11. Thank you very much
For more information contact :
email: eatenga@afaas-africa.org/ info@afaas-africa.org
networking.afaas-africa.org
www.afaas-africa.org
12. CIKM Group Work
1. Evaluate and rank the current CIKM tools according to
their usefulness for communication in CF;
0 = Not Important; 1 = Low important; 2= Important; 3 = Very Important
2. Identify other tools would be useful for communication
within CF;
3. Rank the outputs from the IFAD Project CIKM strategy
that should be included in the overall AFAAS.