Workshop at the World Bank, Washington DC –March 22-23
Several members of the LINK Team including Andy Hall, Rasheed Sulaiman, Rajeswari Raina, Laxmi Prasad Pant and Daniel Dalohoun are participating and presenting at a workshop at the World Bank Workshop in Washington DC on 22-23 March. The theme of the workshop is Enhancing Agricultural Innovation Systems and Andy Hall will be presenting the innovation systems framework and principles as part of the opening session.

South Asia :

October 4-7, 2006: GLOBELICS (Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems) Conference, Kerala, India.
GLOBELICS is an international network of scholars dedicated to applying the concept of "learning, innovation, and competence building systems” as an analytical framework and promoting its use in developing countries. This year's theme was on innovation systems for competitiveness and shared prosperity in developing countries. LINK ran a session on “innovation systems for rural transformation”.
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May 10, 2006: New Insights into Promoting Rural Innovation: Learning from Civil Society, Hyderabad, India
A meeting titled "New Insights into promoting rural innovation: Learning from civil society" co-organised by UNU-MERIT and Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Policy (CRISP) is taking place in Hyderabad, India on 10th May 2006. The main objective of the one-day meeting is to distil lessons and insights from a select few case studies, documenting the effectiveness and successes of civil society organizations in enabling pro-poor rural innovations, often by overcoming myriad social, historical, political, institutional and economic challenges in the process.

As an outcome, the participants of the "New Insights" meeting aim to develop a set of guiding principles for enabling pro-poor rural innovations, which will be of “practical value” for planners and policy makers in the region.

East Africa :

April 6-7, 2006: New Master's in Agricultural Innovation & Entrepreneurship in East Africa
LINK took part in a two day planning meeting to develop a new Master's in Agricultural Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Makere University , Kampala , Uganda April 6-7 . Participants included professors and senior researchers from Makere, Alemaya ( Ethiopia ), United Nations University (represented by LINK), IFPRI-ISNAR and ILRI.