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This document summarizes the communication and knowledge management approach of the Africa RISING program. It discusses the program's objectives to facilitate knowledge sharing, learning, and visibility. It outlines the various knowledge products created by the program such as news, reports, briefs, presentations, and videos. It encourages participants to share information and successes. Finally, it provides an overview of the Africa RISING website and contact information for the program's knowledge management support team.
Knowledge and communication in the Africa RISING Programafrica-rising
This document summarizes the knowledge management and communication approach of the Africa RISING program. It outlines the program's strategic goals of sharing knowledge, accelerating scaling of technologies, enhancing learning between projects, and increasing visibility. It describes the various knowledge products produced, including reports, briefs, presentations, and videos. It provides instructions for how to access these products on the program's website and other platforms. Finally, it outlines the six steps for publishing study reports in the Africa RISING program, from drafting to final publication.
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Email newsletters"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/02/05/upcoming-comms-webinar-email-based-newsletters-not-a-thing-of-the-past/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/2NPpCxcJJUc
This document discusses business etiquette in Africa. It provides economic overviews and key business etiquette practices for South Africa, Ghana, and Egypt. In South Africa, meetings involve shaking hands, maintaining eye contact, and smiling. Gifts are appreciated, especially flowers and chocolates. Formal communication and keeping appointments are expected. In Ghana, meetings require shaking hands and smiling respectfully while upholding religious norms. Communication focuses on harmony while avoiding embarrassment. Negotiations are less formal but building long-term rapport is important. In Egypt, meetings involve prolonged handshakes and direct eye contact, sometimes kissing cheeks. Offering and accepting tea/coffee is expected. Personal relationships and direct conversations with key individuals are important for negotiations
The document summarizes key cultural aspects of several European countries, including their literacy rates, predominant languages, and notable customs and traditions. It discusses how Germany, Russia, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom each have literacy rates over 98%, and examines some of their unique linguistic heritages as well as cultural practices like Oktoberfest, ballet, Bastille Day, and afternoon tea.
Communication and knowledge management in Africa RISINGafrica-rising
This document summarizes the communication and knowledge management approach of the Africa RISING program. It discusses the program's objectives to facilitate knowledge sharing, learning, and visibility. It outlines the various knowledge products created by the program such as news, reports, briefs, presentations, and videos. It encourages participants to share information and successes. Finally, it provides an overview of the Africa RISING website and contact information for the program's knowledge management support team.
Knowledge and communication in the Africa RISING Programafrica-rising
This document summarizes the knowledge management and communication approach of the Africa RISING program. It outlines the program's strategic goals of sharing knowledge, accelerating scaling of technologies, enhancing learning between projects, and increasing visibility. It describes the various knowledge products produced, including reports, briefs, presentations, and videos. It provides instructions for how to access these products on the program's website and other platforms. Finally, it outlines the six steps for publishing study reports in the Africa RISING program, from drafting to final publication.
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Email newsletters"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/02/05/upcoming-comms-webinar-email-based-newsletters-not-a-thing-of-the-past/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/2NPpCxcJJUc
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Wereport the study of a huge optical intraday flare on 2021 November 12 at 2 a.m. UT in the blazar OJ287. In the binary black hole model, it is associated with an impact of the secondary black hole on the accretion disk of the primary. Our multifrequency observing campaign was set up to search for such a signature of the impact based on a prediction made 8 yr earlier. The first I-band results of the flare have already been reported by Kishore et al. (2024). Here we combine these data with our monitoring in the R-band. There is a big change in the R–I spectral index by 1.0 ±0.1 between the normal background and the flare, suggesting a new component of radiation. The polarization variation during the rise of the flare suggests the same. The limits on the source size place it most reasonably in the jet of the secondary BH. We then ask why we have not seen this phenomenon before. We show that OJ287 was never before observed with sufficient sensitivity on the night when the flare should have happened according to the binary model. We also study the probability that this flare is just an oversized example of intraday variability using the Krakow data set of intense monitoring between 2015 and 2023. We find that the occurrence of a flare of this size and rapidity is unlikely. In machine-readable Tables 1 and 2, we give the full orbit-linked historical light curve of OJ287 as well as the dense monitoring sample of Krakow.
Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cub...Leonel Morgado
Current descriptions of immersive learning cases are often difficult or impossible to compare. This is due to a myriad of different options on what details to include, which aspects are relevant, and on the descriptive approaches employed. Also, these aspects often combine very specific details with more general guidelines or indicate intents and rationales without clarifying their implementation. In this paper we provide a method to describe immersive learning cases that is structured to enable comparisons, yet flexible enough to allow researchers and practitioners to decide which aspects to include. This method leverages a taxonomy that classifies educational aspects at three levels (uses, practices, and strategies) and then utilizes two frameworks, the Immersive Learning Brain and the Immersion Cube, to enable a structured description and interpretation of immersive learning cases. The method is then demonstrated on a published immersive learning case on training for wind turbine maintenance using virtual reality. Applying the method results in a structured artifact, the Immersive Learning Case Sheet, that tags the case with its proximal uses, practices, and strategies, and refines the free text case description to ensure that matching details are included. This contribution is thus a case description method in support of future comparative research of immersive learning cases. We then discuss how the resulting description and interpretation can be leveraged to change immersion learning cases, by enriching them (considering low-effort changes or additions) or innovating (exploring more challenging avenues of transformation). The method holds significant promise to support better-grounded research in immersive learning.
The cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
JAMES WEBB STUDY THE MASSIVE BLACK HOLE SEEDSSérgio Sacani
The pathway(s) to seeding the massive black holes (MBHs) that exist at the heart of galaxies in the present and distant Universe remains an unsolved problem. Here we categorise, describe and quantitatively discuss the formation pathways of both light and heavy seeds. We emphasise that the most recent computational models suggest that rather than a bimodal-like mass spectrum between light and heavy seeds with light at one end and heavy at the other that instead a continuum exists. Light seeds being more ubiquitous and the heavier seeds becoming less and less abundant due the rarer environmental conditions required for their formation. We therefore examine the different mechanisms that give rise to different seed mass spectrums. We show how and why the mechanisms that produce the heaviest seeds are also among the rarest events in the Universe and are hence extremely unlikely to be the seeds for the vast majority of the MBH population. We quantify, within the limits of the current large uncertainties in the seeding processes, the expected number densities of the seed mass spectrum. We argue that light seeds must be at least 103 to 105 times more numerous than heavy seeds to explain the MBH population as a whole. Based on our current understanding of the seed population this makes heavy seeds (Mseed > 103 M⊙) a significantly more likely pathway given that heavy seeds have an abundance pattern than is close to and likely in excess of 10−4 compared to light seeds. Finally, we examine the current state-of-the-art in numerical calculations and recent observations and plot a path forward for near-future advances in both domains.
Knowledge and communication in the Africa RISING Program
1. Knowledge and communication in
the Africa RISING Program
Tsehay Gashaw
Africa RISING ESA Review and Planning Meeting
Arusha, Tanzania, 9-11 September 2014
2. Overview of the session
1. The general comms approach of the program
(objectives)
2. Finding, following and contributing to Africa
RISING knowledge and information
3. Practical exercises with some of the key
Africa RISING comms tools
3. 1. The general comms approach
of the program (objectives)
4. Scope of program activities
Communicating for wider influence and impact – Engaging
with and influencing wide audiences;
Translating the program’s outputs into research,
development and policy outcomes, getting knowledge into
use;
Knowledge sharing and learning – Enriching learning,
interaction and exchange across the program;
Publishing – Capturing and disseminating research products
and outputs of the program;
Internal communication – Linking and connecting project
and program teams.
14. How to get to Africa RISING’s knowledge
• On the web site
• On CG Space
• On Wiki
• On Yammer
• By Email
• Event calendar
• Search Google
15. Where to find Africa RISING information and knowledge?
Tools and resources
http://africa-rising.net/
http://africa-rising.net/about/ckm/
http://africa-rising.wikispaces.com/
Subscribe to Email alerts
• Sign up for news alerts by email
• Sign up for publications alerts by email
16. Comms support - Who to contact?
• Overall program: Peter Ballantyne, Ewen Le
Borgne and Simret Yasabu (ILRI)
• East & Southern Africa – Jonathan Odhong (IITA)
and Catherine Njuguna (IITA) and Jeffrey Oliver
(IITA )
• Ethiopia: Simret Yasabu (ILRI)
• West Africa – Jonathan Odhong (IITA) and
Katherine Lopez (IITA)
18. Why is it important?
•Most up-to-date information
• Cuts down email traffic
• Better for planning and organizing events
• Better to document, publish and follow-up
project activities
• Collaborate, share, learn and browse
•Work with your colleagues in West Africa,
Ethiopia and Eastern and Southern Africa
19. How can I use the Africa RISING
wiki?
•If a new user, create account / get invite
• Accept invitation and collaborate
• Read content
• Edit pages
• Upload document
21. What is in it?
• The program framework
• All events - documented
• Branding guidelines (templates, logos and tools)
• The history of the project
• Overview of the regions
• Communication plans
• Key contacts (and what they do)
• Etc.
24. Why is it important?
• Quickly get connected and collaborate with CGIAR
colleagues
• Cut down on email traffic
• Get help or find answers for some of your questions
• Find out about project activities and updates
• Share, learn and get more from yammer
Key actions
• Join with your institution email (ex. cgiar.org, etc.)
• Update profile
• Set notifications (manage your emails!)
25. Yammer – connect with colleagues
(https://www.yammer.com/africa-rising/)
28. Live Demo
• Login to wiki (join or accept the invitation)
• Post content
• Create or Edit a page
• Upload document
• View history page, set notification, etc…
• Login to Yammer (join if necessary) www.yammer.com
• Update your profile, Set notifications
• Join your interest of groups /networks and share
29. Thank You
Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
africa-rising.net
The presentation has a Creative Commons licence. You are free to re-use or distribute this work, provided credit is given to ILRI.