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...
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...
La encuesta electrónica de AGRIS, tuvo lugar entre noviembre de 2014 y febrero 12 de 2015. El propósito de esta encuesta fue la de tener la retroalimentación de los usuarios de AGRIS en varios...
At the mid-point of the e-Forum on “Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies” it is time to wrap up the first week:356 people from 80...
With over 7 billion mouths to feed and a food retail industry worth $4 trillion a year, we are exploring how open data can make our global food system more efficient, from farm to fork One...
The World Bank has published a new policy note on how Open Data can support development in areas that relate to the Sustainable Development Goals. The publication emphazises especially the...
Have you ever wondered:How many Open Access policies are there worldwide?Does mandating result in more deposits in institutional repositories?When are Open Access Policies deposited?Thanks to...
The time has come to announce our 5 micro-sites beta testers!In first place we would like to thank all the AGRIS Centers that participated in the context and warmly embraced our new service! It has...
In the last few years, the momentum for Open Data has been steadily growing in Africa - with a few countries launching national level platforms. The Open Data for Africa is one of the comprehensive...
The new Global Partnership for Sustainable Development is a high level initiative that will strengthen the Data Revolution for sustainable development and inclusive growth. It is mainly organized...