Apply by 1 April 2018 ! Free e-Learning course on Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition
Following on from the successful first round of GODAN Action's e-learning course on Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition, we are pleased to re-open the applications for the second round.
This e-Learning course aims to strengthen the capacity of data producers and data consumers to manage and use open data in agriculture and nutrition. One of the main objectives is for the course to be used widely within agricultural and nutrition knowledge networks, in different institutions.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Understand the principles and benefits of open data | Understand ethics and responsible use of data | Identify the steps to advocate for open data policies |
Understand how and where to find open data | Apply techniques to data analysis and visualisation | Recognise the necessary steps to set up an open data repository |
Define the FAIR data principles
| Understand the basics of copyright and database rights | Apply open licenses to data |
The course is open to infomediaries (including ICT workers, technologist-journalists, communication officers, librarians and extensionists), policy makers, administrators, project managers, researchers and scientists working in the area of agriculture, nutrition, weather and climate, and land data.
The programme is provided in English and lasts for four weeks. Participants are expected to spend eight hours weekly on average to complete lessons and engage in activities such discussion forums and webinars. Please note that by applying for the course, applicants declare that their supervisor/manager/the person to whom they report at their workplace approves their participation in this online course, and allows participant to dedicate about 32 hours in total during the for weeks of the course.
Please click here for more information about the course and please apply by completing the online registration form by 1 April, Sunday 23:59 CET.
Important dates:
Call for applications - deadline - 1 April, Sunday 23:50 CET
Selection of applicants - deadline - 3 April, Wednesday
Successful applicants will be notified by email by 4th April, Thursday
Course runs between 9 April - 4 May 2018
For further questions, please contact us at [email protected]
Source: GODAN Action
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!!! GODAN Action Training Mini-Grants : Apply by 7 May 2018 !!!
- Open Data benefits for agriculture and nutrition
- Browse the Open Data Handbook for guides, case studies and resources on Open Data
- Open Data and the Knowledge Society (Amsterdam university Press, 2017)
- Open Data Protection : Study on legal barriers to Open Data sharing - Data Protection and PSI (Göttingen State and University Library, 2017)
- Love DATA MANAGEMENT (recorded Webinar)
- Using Open Data (recorded Webinar)
- Data-Driven Agriculture : an overview (recorded Webinar)
- Free interactive UK Data Service Data Skills Training Modules
- Implement effective Open Data & Keep it alive with Open Data TOOLKIT
- Open Data Awareness Program for Nepal’s digital natives
- Open Standards, Data, Source, and Innovation as Principles for Digital Development
- Essentials4DataSupport course in research data management
- Research Data Management and Sharing Coursera course
- The 2018 Global Food Policy Report (20 March 2018) looks at the impacts of greater global integration through trade, investment, migration, open data, developed country policies, and governance – that can be harnessed to benefit our global food system.
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