Regional Training Workshop on

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• Regional Training Workshop on Building National
  Information Management and Knowledge Exchange
  Capacities for Agricultural Research for
  Development in Near East Region" Cairo-Egypt,
  17-20 May 2009
• AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting
• May 2009, Cairo, Egypt
• AARINENA Website and its new features
• Taraneh Ebrahimi
• AARINENA-RAIS Secretary

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• Outline
• AARINENA-RAIS Network Map
• AARINENA Website and its new features
• Future plans and required support

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• AARINENA-RAIS Social Network Analysis(SNA)
• Social network analysis is the mapping and
  measuring of relationships and flows between
  people, groups, organizations, computers or other
  information/knowledge processing entities.
• Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a method for
  visualizing our people and connection power,
  leading us to identify how we can best interact
  to share knowledge.

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• AARINENA-RAIS Social Network Analysis(SNA)
• We use the analysis to
• Visualize relationships within and outside of the
  organization.
• Facilitate identification of who knows who and
  who might know what - teams and individuals
  playing central roles - thought leaders, key
  knowledge brokers, experts, etc.
• Identify isolated teams or individuals and
  knowledge bottlenecks.

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• AARINENA-RAIS Social Network Analysis(SNA)
• We use the analysis to
• Strategically work to improve knowledge flows.
• Accelerate the flow of knowledge and information
  across functional and organisational boundaries.
• Improve the effectiveness of formal and informal
  communication channels.
• Raise awareness of the importance of informal
  networks.

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee May 2009,
Cairo, Egypt _____________________________________
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• AARINENA Website and its new features
• All activities related to the AARINENA web site
  (http//www.aarinena.org), by the AARINENA-RAIS
  secretariat.
• The first AARINENA website realeased in 8th
  General Conference of AARINENA in Jordan,in 2002

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• AARINENA Website and its new features
• In 2003 and 2004 AARINENA-RAIS Secretariat has
  made some changes related to the website design
  and content in collaboration with GFAR.
• Enhancement of Arabic version of the website by
  the valuable efforts of the FAO/RNE

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• AARINENA Website and its new features
• What we want
• Moving forward a content management system.
• Interacting and exchanging
• Sharing Knowledge and experiences
• Involving more people
• Collaborating and exchanging with Focal Units
• Collaborating and exchanging with Regional
  Networks

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• AARINENA Website and its new features
• What we have done
• Developing the new website.
• Member area
• Electronic archive
• AARINENA RSS
• Regional Researchers database
• Regional Institutional database
• Discussion forum
• KS tools( Blogs, Wikis,)

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• Member Area
• To manage information

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• Member Area

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• Regional Agricultural Researchers Database
• The electronic form has been developed to get
  Researchers data directly through AARINENA
  Website
• http//www.aarinena.org/database/Researchers/f
  orm.htm
• The form has been designed in two pages.
• Easy to access and follow the steps.

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• Regional Institutional database
• It is provided to enter data related to the
  Regional Agricultural Research Institutions,
  Universities, farmers organizations, NGOs,
  Private sectors, useful links,etc.
• Based on username and password which will be
  provided for Focal Units.
• Two level of actions are required to complete the
  proccess.

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• AARINENA Discussion Forum
• The virtual place where conversations can take
  place and information can be shared more easily
  among the region .
• It could be useful for the Regional Networks to
  collaborate more effectively.

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• Knowledge Sharing tools
• Websites or softwares that can be used to support
  personal and group knowledge sharing.
• Blog an easy-to-publish web page .
• Blogs can give the world a window on your work.
• Blogs provide an easy way to communicate
  knowledge.

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• Knowledge Sharing tools(cont.)
• You dont have to know any special computer
  programming to write or read a blog.
• Allow readers to comment on a blog post.
• Blogs can have one or many authors.

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• Knowledge Sharing tools(cont.)
• Wiki is an effective tool for collaborative
  writing.
• Allows users to add, remove, and otherwise edit
  and change content.
• no special software or third party webmaster is
  needed to post content.
• contains a discussion page where editors and
  readers can talk about the document.

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AARINENA WikispaceThinking together
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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• Future plans and required support
• Focus on Focal Units Collaboration.
• Encourage using of web tools between the FU and
  RN to exchange and share experiences and
  knowledge.

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• Future plans and required support(cont.)
• Urge FU to Use the NERAKIN as on of the best
  information systems in the Region to share and
  exchange information and knowledge.
• Developing inter-regional communication channels
  and linkage mechanisms

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AARINENA-RAIS ICT Steering Committee Meeting,
May 2009, Cairo, Egypt ___________________________
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• Future plans and required support(cont.)
• Encourage the establishment of common standards
  and methods for data collection, storage and
  dissemination mechanisms related to agricultural
  RD.
• Moving forward content management.
• collaborative programs with other regional fora
  like APAARI,FARA, to benefit from their success
  stories related to e-learning and develop it in
  our region.

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