Two observations on this a personal and a more institutional although in the latter i don not represent the institutional policy per se.

From a personal perspective you share what you would like to share and usually sharing in a trusted network with peers gives more confidence that the knowledge shared is (hopefully) used and applied. Sharing beyond a trusted network has more things to consider such as for instance speaking at a conference to share findings of a survey or publishing in a journal.

The role of our International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is to act as a regional knowledge learning and enabling centre. In general we consider the generated knowledge within our Centre as a public good and our findings are freely available on our Internetsite. In addition we host visiting scientists from all over the world doing specific redearch on climate change, hydrology, biodiversity and share with them data and information. In reaching out to grassroots level we could do more but face often financial barriers to make our knowledge avaliable in local or regional languages or ensure that our knowledge is disseminated through more appropriatechannels such as radio, drama and the like but within our means we are trying to get the best leverage of our research findings. One of the avenues we are experimenting reaching out is through youth networks, e-discussions and social media.