This post highlights an innovative tool for crop pest control eLocust3, a highly effective data recording and transmission system for crop pest monitoring developed by the FAO of the UN.______...
A Horizon 2020 EU-funded CAPSELLA project aims at developing novel ICT solutions tailored to the needs and requirements of farmers’ local communities and networks and other actors...
The EDISON - Building The Data Science Profession project launched a recent questionnaire with the aim to consolidate the understanding of the Data Science professions. The survey will...
In November 2016, the Open Education Research Hub (OER Hub) launched an open text book about open research. Besides the latter issue, the book focuses on ‘Ethics in the Open’...
Agriculture would benefit hugely from a common data ecosystem. This is the main argument of the GODAN discussion paper A Global Data Ecosystem for Agriculture and Food. A newly set up ...
The ideal candidate – to begin in April of 2017 - is a suitably experienced leader with a demonstrated ability to engage with the members, Council and senior stakeholders of the RDA, and the...
In 2016, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (RTD) published a book that connects some of the key goals behind ‘Open Innovation’, ...
International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB) 2017: Call For Papers Theme: Expanding Perspectives on Open Science: Communities, Cultures and Diversity in Concepts and Practices. If you...
‘Enabling Multilingual Search through Controlled Vocabularies: the AGRIS Approach’ is the title of the paper that was awarded the Best Paper Prize, submitted and presented at this year...
In September 2016, the Land Portal and the Cadasta Foundation held a debate on Open Data and Land Governance. The highly substantive discussion included the perspectives from 26...