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Enabling FAIR Data across the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences (ESES)

03/12/2018

So far, the Enabling FAIR Data project has mobilized a community of more than 300 cross-sector leaders to improve data handling across the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences (ESES).  By leveraging the FAIR principles, this community is working together to ensure that data, physical samples, and software are treated as first-class ...

VIDERUM: an Open Data solutions Provider to create, maintain, deploy technology for public sector

30/11/2018

Viderum - founded by the Open Knowledge International family of organizations in 2015 - is an open data solutions provider, which creates, maintains, and deploys technology for governments, public sector enterprises, and non-profit organizations to manage their data and publish it as open data (see Open Definition). Viderum was created by ...

Access to Seeds Index 2019. South & Southeast Asia is now available online. Find the full ranking & all the insights

29/11/2018

First ever Access to Seeds Index for South and Southeast Asia evaluated 24 leading seed companies in the region on support for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and increased smallholder farmer productivity. The Access to Seeds Index, initiated by the Amsterdam-based Access to Seeds Foundation, it is one of the first benchmarks ...

AAS Open Research: Open-Access publishing platform for African scientists

27/11/2018

"AAS Open Research represents the cutting edge of science communication by offering the option to communicate research in a manner that is immediate and accessible...The content of AAS Open Research at its introduction features an abundance of quality research which we hope will advance the thinking and research approaches ...

Selection of 44 Centres of Excellence in West and Central AFRICA for the ACE Impact Project

23/11/2018

Building upon the successful implementation of the ACE 1 Project, the World Bank is now supporting the ACE Impact Project which is focused on scaling up postgraduate education and applied research that are fundamental to economic growth in the region... West and Central African countries, with support from the World Bank ...