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Crop pest control with eLocust3: recording and transmission of geo-referenced data

23/12/2016

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.___________________________________________________________________________________________________ “The Desert Locust is considered the world’s most dangerous migratory pest species. It threatens people’s livelihoods, food security, ...

CAPSELLA project: collaborating for knowledge and linking communities

22/12/2016

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 engaged in agrobiodiversity.___________________________________________________________________________________________________“The objective of the research in this field is to harness the collaborative power of ICT networks to create collective awareness ...

Help consolidate the understanding of the DATA SCIENCE professions

21/12/2016

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 take some 25 minutes of your time to be completed and will be kept open until 22 January 2017.___________________________________________________________________________________________________The emergence of Data Science technologies ...

OPEN RESEARCH Open Textbook. Reflect on Reflection

20/12/2016

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’, ‘Open Dissemination’ and ‘Reflecting in the Open’. “Open Research is an open textbook based on the award winning course of the ...

Join a new GODAN Data Ecosystem Working Group

20/12/2016

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 GODAN Data Ecosystem Working Group (WG) will explore the daring vision of catalyzing the creation a global, common data ...