AIMS

Rangelands West: Going Global

08/09/2010

Valeria and I are in Tucson, participating in the inception workshop of the ISE-NIFA project on a global Knowledge System for Range Lands.  we will report life from the workshop.  Photos are at  http://www.flickr.com/photos/johanneskeizer/sets/72157624909516446/. The workshop has participants from University of Arizona, UC Davis, ...

Presentation and talks with the Outreach Division of the Secretariat

04/09/2010

yesterday I had a presentation with the staff of the "Information Aquisition and processing" cluster of the Outreach Division of the  UN secretariat.   After the presentation I had talks with Shinichi Kushima the cluster chief and we agreed to set up a common project.  Our discussion can be summarized as ...

Opening access to agricultural information in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

04/09/2010

The Open Access Working Group has was born from the final regional Implementation and Coordination of Agricultural Research (ICART) workshop by the SADC Network of Agricultural Research & Development Information Managers with its main aim on the development of a regional Agricultural Information Communication & Knowledge Management Strategy (AICKM). This programme is ...

Status of the AgroTagger service and its integration into Drupal and DSpace

02/09/2010

Yesterday, 1st September 2010, our group in FAO attended a presentation by Rahul Samaddar (IIT Kanpur) on the status of the AgroTagger service (more info on AgroTagger here).   Other meetings with Rahul are planned for the next two days. This is just a short summary of the first day. The AgroTagger ...

Travel to Bangkok, Thailand, for the APARIS workshop on ICM

02/09/2010

Travel to Bangkok, Thailand. Purpose: Participate in the “Workshop on ICT/ICM for National Agricultural Research Information Systems in the Asia-Pacific Region”, taking place from 14th to 17th September 2010 at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). The workshop is co-organized and co-sponsored by APAARI, GFAR and FAO and will include ...