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Big Data: unlocking the future for Agriculture!
24/02/2016
Big Data can provide new efficient decision making tools for helping agricultural development as well as biodiversity protection. New acquired, aggregated and shared data is a breeding ground for extracting and sharing useful information and knowledge among different actors involved in agriculture or biodiversity domains, as well as for combining ...
The role of collaboration in building a global knowledge commons
23/02/2016
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the University of Vienna are pleased to announce the upcoming COAR Annual Meeting and Conference, which will take place at the University of Vienna on April 12 & 13, 2016. The major themes for this year's meeting are new roles for repositories and international collaboration. The ...
SPARC has launched an Open Agenda: Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education
23/02/2016
Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education form a broad SPARC’s Open Agenda that is critical to accelerating the way we discover and exchange knowledge, and unlocking our potential to solve big problems and make new discoveries.SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is a global coalition ...
Closing the communication gap: Ghana’s agricultural radio-shows keep farmers in the loop
22/02/2016
In 2012 an English language report came out about an initiative in Ghana to communicate with farmers via radio. That paper has just been published again, in Spanish and French, with an update on how the project’s goingHow do you reach a large audience who might not have access to ...