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Join e-Agriculture Community Participants Panel and Peer Assist ! Capacity Development in Data Collecting for Agriculture Analytics

25/10/2017

From 16 to 27 October 2017,  FAO e-Agriculture community of practice is promoting its free online Learning Activity on the use of Drones for data collecting & analytics in Agriculture and Rural Development. Did you miss this real-time e-Agriculture learning event ? You can still enroll by filling in the following formThis week e-Agriculture had ...

The State of Open Data - DigitalScience / FigShare Report 2017

25/10/2017

To jump on global celebrations of the International Open Access week 2017, on 23 October 2017 FigShare released DigitalScience/Figshare landmark report entitled The State of Open Data 2017.  The report looks at global attitudes towards Open Data (#stateofopendata).   Its key finding is that Open Data has become more embedded in the research community ...

Open Access Week 2017 : initiatives and resources pushing in support of Open Science

24/10/2017

See: SPARC site highlighting examples of concrete benefits of making research openHappy International OPEN ACCESS Week , #OAweek , #OAWeek17 ! To celebrate the 10th edition of this global community-driven event, a number of communities of practice world-wide are pushing their #OpenAccess- themed events, new projects, webinars, posts . . . and many other initiatives and ...

GODAN e-learning course on Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition

23/10/2017

Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition online course (on GODAN portal) 19th November - 7th December 2018 1st - 19th October 2018 2nd July – 27th July 2018  9th April - 4th May 2018 13th November - 8th December 2017 ​in English - have been delivered through the FAO of the UN MOODLE e-learning platform.   ...

Celebrate Open Access week with African Open Science Platform !

20/10/2017

African Open Science Platform (AOSP) was launched in 2016 as the Africa-wide initiative to exploit the potential and promote the value of Open Data for Open Science.  By sharing : news on Open Science and Open Data-related events, as well as knowledge on the development and coordination of Data Policies, Data Training ...