ICT Update's List: Advocacy

And to help you with this exciting task, this Advocacy Toolkit has been compiled to provide the necessary resources, tools and methods, a community to share and interact with, and overall motivation to support your advocacy activities!

This Toolkit has been assembled to support organisations’ and individuals’ efforts to advocate for, influence others towards and raise awareness around the need for and value of ‘opening up agricultural knowledge for all’. This Toolkit is filled with information, ideas, tools and resources to provide support to activities to raise awareness, promote and push through activities to opening access to agricultural knowledge.
Who could/should make use of this Advocacy Toolkit?

This Toolkit may be used by...

Information/Communication professionals
Researchers/Scientists
Managers
Anyone with an interest in opening up agricultural knowledge to all!

...to advocate to:

Policy-makers/ Decision-makers in national or local government
Senior Management e.g. Director Generals, Rectors of Universities, Management Teams/Boards
Researchers/Scientists in their own or other departments
Information/Communication professionals
Management/staff of other/partner organizations

How to use the Toolkit

We understand that visitors to this Toolkit may be at various stages of developing and undertaking advocacy and may require different support and information to support their advocacy work. Therefore we offer you ten 'tools' in the Toolkit that you may take and use, and you can navigate through the Toolkit as best suits you and your needs.