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E-Forum “Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies”: objectives and results

08/04/2016

Sustainable Development can only be achieved by having access to information, sharing and networking where every person is able to contribute to dialogue and decision-making for international development and social justice.E-Forum “Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies”:  objectives and resultsAt the United Nations (...

Introduction of an XML schema “Akoma Ntoso” to structure the workflow of FAO normative and Governing Body documents.

08/04/2016

FAO is working on a project which aims to demonstrate that producing Governing Body documents using an XML schema leads to a more efficient workflow and to increased accessibility of the content of documents. In 2015 FAO launched an Open Governance Initiative consisting of the introduction of an XML-based standard for ...

COAR Annual Meeting & General Assembly 2016, 11-14 April, in Vienna!

08/04/2016

This year the COAR Annual Meeting and the General Assembly is hosted by University of Vienna.  Use these last few days to register and to join the COAR International Community in Vienna! (here you can fill up the registration  form). “COAR is an excellent opportunity to bring more visibility to ...

17 May 2016 : Upcoming WEBINAR on Wheat Data Interoperability Guidelines

07/04/2016

Members of the Wheat Data Interoperability Working Group - one of the WGs of the Research Data Alliance Europe RDA – with strong support from National Institute for Agricultural Research INRA and URGI Information System and Data Integration team - are pleased to announce an upcoming interactive webinar on Wheat Data ...

Think about markets. Think about data. Reflect on innovation.

07/04/2016

World leaders concluded three large agreements last year regarding markets, data, and innovation. These can do a lot to contribute to sustainable development representing a vision of how to change the world. A new Global Commission on Business and Sustainable Development has set out to do just that. 27 July 2015, the ...