CGXchange is a collaboration platform supported by CGIAR Consortium. CGXchange has always been about helping CGIAR staff connect with people, share knowledge and collaborate online. CGIAR users can connect, share and collaborate with the support of a rich set of easy-to-use collaboration tools. If you and your team need to:
contact us at cgx-support AT cgiar.org and we will show you around. Why we switched to Google AppsIn 2008, the ICT-KM Program began exploring collaboration alternatives that could help us reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large proprietary software platforms and at the same time allow us to innovate with improved collaborative hosted platforms and services for CGIAR. A joint initiative involving the ICT-KM Program and the CGIAR IT Managers successfully explored Google Apps Education Edition through a case study that included participation from more than 250 members of staff from the CGIAR Centers. The participants expressed satisfaction with Google Apps and recommended these tools for the CGIAR. As a result, the ICT-KM Program decided to implement Google Apps as an efficient and cost-effective replacement for the former CGXchange plaform: BEA Aqualogic.
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