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Blog Post2015 EPT OA Award Winners
The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) has co-awarded the 2015 EPT award for individuals in developing countries working for Open Access to Bianca Amaro, information coordinator at...
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SPARC Africa: capacitating Africa towards access to Open Scholarship
This is a repost of Jill Classen blogIn response to the portentous need of access to scholarly content by the African research community, an additional SPARC Chapter, SPARC Africa, has been...
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Data on agenda at the US Secretary of Agriculture's World Food Prize Roundtable
At this week’s World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Thomas Vilsack, has devoted his 2015 Roundtable Discussion to Open Data for Agriculture...
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Global Panel technical brief: advocating for improved metrics and data for effective food system policies
The high level initiative "Global Panel" underlines the need for quality and quantity of food data in the 2nd Technical Brief that was published in October 2015. The document states...
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IFLA 2016 National Committee Fellowship Grant Announced
This message is circulated as announced by IFLAThe IFLA 2016 National Committee, through generous donations from the North American library community, will offer up to 50 full fellowships to...
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2nd Workshop Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition
Following the highly successful first workshop in January 2015, the Government of the Netherlands through the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced the 2nd Workshop "Creating Impact with Open...
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KIBI: A data Intelligence platform
The Siren Solutions have announced KIBI, an Open Source Data Intelligence platform for "Data Intelligence". Kibi is a "friendly fork" of Kibana - an amazing platform...