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GODAN Working Group on Capacity Development

11/08/2016

With the objective to promote open data knowledge and increase awareness of ongoing open data initiatives, innovations and good practices, the leader organisations of GODAN Action[1] created a GODAN Working Group on Capacity Development.The GODAN Capacity Development Working Group aims to draw from the development of a capacity building ...

The new information sharing platform TAPipedia and its taxonomy

10/08/2016

TAPipedia (http://tapipedia.org/), developed within the framework of Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP), is an information sharing system designed to enhance knowledge exchange in support of Capacity Development (CD) for Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS). TAPipedia aims to be a global information system for good CD practices, innovation outputs, success stories ...

Attention Data Owners: GODAN seeks new datasets to open in Project 8 ahead of Summit

09/08/2016

Does your organization produce data that is of value to those working to achieve a food secure future?  If so, GODAN and Project 8 invite you to make this data available in the Project 8 platform ahead of Summit 2016. What is Project 8?Project 8 is a professional social network built around data.  On ...

A look at AGORA usage in the world

08/08/2016

Africa leads in terms of usage, but AGORA has considerable presence in Asia and Latin America.With by far the highest number of registered institutions in the world Africa uses AGORA the most, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, which accounts for the vast majority of log-ins, and Western and Eastern Africa, with ...

GODAN Action - Enabling practical engagement with open data in agriculture and nutrition

05/08/2016

As the world’s population grows, global demand for food is predicted to nearly double. The number of people at risk of hunger in the developing world is estimated to grow to more than a billion people by 2050. New data-driven solutions in agriculture and nutrition are increasingly being seen as ...