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USAIN 2012 conference scholarship: call for applications by agricultural information students

04/12/2011

One $1,000.00 scholarship to be applied to the cost of attending the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) 2012 conference is available to a student interested in pursuing a career in the field of agricultural information. The conference will be held April 29 - May 2, 2012 at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.   To ...

New "Agriculture News" portal launched by FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa

02/12/2011

The new Agriculture NewsPortal of the FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa (RNE) is now operational and available online in both English and Arabic for strengthening agriculture information dissemination and knowledge sharing in Near East and North Africa region. How do you rate the newly established ...

Contribute to the World Bank's "ICT in Agriculture" sourcebook

02/12/2011

The World Bank and the e-Agriculture community are collaborating together in a series of online forums to further develop resources for the recently launched “ICT in Agriculture” Sourcebook. These discussion forums, available to all e-Agriculture community members, will be vehicles to inform the World Bank of other projects/programmes that ...

EIFL-PLIP invites public libraries in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda to apply for grants

01/12/2011

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (PLIP) invites public and community libraries in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda to apply for grants to use information and communication technology (ICT) to extend their services to improve lives in their communities.   Grant maximum: US$15,000 Implementation period: 12 months Application deadline: January 31, 2012   The grants aim ...

Release of the beta version of VOA3R

30/11/2011

The VOA3R plaftform has recently released its  version. It is a social platform for researchers in agriculture & aquaculture in which the content of open access institutional repositories, the AGROVOC thesaurus and terminologies specific to research methods are integrated. At this stage of the project, VOA3R contains 468.983 papers and ...