AIMS

6 April 2018 : Join free Webinar on : AGRIS for Agricultural Information Data providers

15/03/2018

We are pleased to invite you to attend an upcoming Webinar on AGRIS for Agricultural Information Data providers! This Webinar is co-organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO of the UN) together with Information Training & Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA) DATE:  Friday, 6 April 2018 TIME:  14:00 Hrs ...

22 March : Join free Webinar on Dgroups: Building Effective online Communities in Your Organization

14/03/2018

Have you ever looked for an easy solution to create networks and communities of practice within your organization? Would you like a simple, non-commercial tool, respectful of privacy for team discussions?, - In need of a knowledge exchange solution that is compatible with low bandwidth users in the South?Then, ...

Share YOUR views on "Ontology Metadata" through a Survey !

13/03/2018

This is a gentle reminder to spend 10-15 minutes from your valuable time to share your views on "Ontology metadata" through this survey (see below for the details and the survey link).If you are somehow familiar with the use of ontologies, please consider answering this survey.The RDA Vocabulary ...

19 - 23 March 2018 : About IGAD activities during the RDA P11 in Berlin

13/03/2018

Dear Colleagues !  We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin or remotely !This year IGAD-RDA Pre-meeting will focus on the implementation of the FAIR principles according to a three-step program:1. STEP :19-20 March, 2018, at Leibniz-Gemeinschaft in Chausseestraße 111, Berlin:Presentations on institutional use cases, semantics and data models, and ...

From the International Symposium on FARMERS’ ACCESS to DATA : full video recording

12/03/2018

In November 2017, the Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR) convened a training course and a Symposium on Farmers’ Access to Data in Centurion, South Africa.The events were co-funded by GODAN and CTA and were organized by ITOCA.We are pleased to announce that we now have the ...