Proceedings of AARINENA RAIS General Assembly Meeting 25-26 April 2006
ICARDA, Amman, Jordan

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become an essential
component for development, not only of the agricultural sector, but also of industrial,
environmental, and service sectors as well. It is a crucial element in establishing the
sustainable development in any country.
Realizing the important role of ICT in creating a sustainable agricultural
development, AARINENA worked intensively during the last decade or so and has
committed to strengthen this sector and enhance its usage in the WANA region.

KITABU, the bookmarking-tool.
Bookmarking essential pages
from RUNetwork.de and other websites.
A Concept Note

Within in the frame of the cooperation between the RAIS within the GFAR frame, the need
for a tool to condense and summarise information available on the web was identified. The
requirements for such a tool also referred to the Information Platform www.RUNetwork.de,
which provides both diversified information as also the opportunity for stakeholders from
ARD and rural development to publish on the web. The objective of this tool is to setup a
website, with selected articles from RUNetwork and other external websites

Workshop on Advocacy and Inter-regional Cooperation for Information & Communication Technologies/Management in Agricultural Research for Development
Organized by
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) ¿ Extension, Thailand
3-4 July, 2006. Proceedings

Under its Asia-Pacific Agricultural Research Information System (APARIS) initiative, APAARI proposed to GFAR to host the third inter-regional workshop on Information & Communication Management for Agricultural Research for Development (ICM4ARD) in the Asia-Pacific Region. The first such inter-regional workshop in 2004 at FAO-Rome identified the framework for ICM4ARD.

GFAR Communications Strategy

GFAR's function as a platform that facilitates and fosters global networks of agricultural research and development (ARD) stakeholders requires GFAR to have robust communication capabilities. GFAR¿s communication capacities must enable its stakeholders to discuss and act in partnership to resolve issues related to ARD across the world. GFAR should be capable of providing the necessary, relevant and useful information related to ARD issues to its stakeholders when and where they need it in a form that is easily accessible to them.

Strengthening Regional/Sub-Regional Organizations
of Agricultural Research for Development

In the globalized world that characterizes this turn of century the Regional/Sub-Regional
Organizations (ROs/SROs) play a key role in facilitating scientific and technological
cooperation among groups of countries. Through cooperative action, the ROs/SROs facilitate
joint research efforts, seeking to assure a critical mass of human and financial resources in
strategic areas of research, and to promote concerted action among the various stakeholders of
agricultural research for development (ARD). Given the increasing institutional diversification

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