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Empowering Women for Open Data Mapping in Agriculture: Implications for Land Rights and the SDGs in Africa

14/05/2020

This blog recapitulates the interventions made by the panelists of a recently held GODAN Action webinar on “Empowering Women for Open Data Mapping in Agriculture: Implications for Land Rights and the SDGs in Africa(link is external)”, Victor Sunday, Dr. Toyin Ojo, Nathalie Sidibe and Uchechi Shirley Anaduaka.   1) How do ...

RDA COVID-19 Work Group Announces Third Release of Guidelines and Recommendations

12/05/2020

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) COVID-19 group published the third release of the COVID-19 Data Sharing Recommendations and Guidelines, on 8 May 2020. A global cohort of 450 data, social science. legal and ethical, and software experts together with professionals from the clinical, epidemiology and omics sectors are working in a fast track ...

RDA/IGAD Webinar Series: “Developing Best Practice Principles for Agricultural Data Management” Webinar set for May 20

11/05/2020

As part of the Research Data Alliance's (RDA)/ Agricultural Data Interest Group's (IGAD) ongoing webinar series, aimed to keep up with cutting edge developments in agricultural data, and encourage the free flow of ideas, the next webinar is set to take place on Wednesday, May 20 at 10 a.m. CEST.  The ...

GODAN Webinar Recording: "Empowering Women for Open Data Mapping in Agriculture: Implications for Land Rights and SDGs in Africa”

08/05/2020

The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) and the Data Rights and Responsible Data Working Group are excited to share the recording of the webinar "Empowering Women for Open Data Mapping in Agriculture: Implications for Land Rights and SDGs in Africa," available here.  Female empowerment is as critical ...

RDA COVID-19 Work Group Announces Second Release of Guidelines and Recommendations

07/05/2020

The Research Data Alliance and its 10,500+ international members have the second release of the RDA COVID-19 recommendations and guidelines available. Since the first release, the RDA COVID-19 working group has seen the addition of two cross-cutting COVID-19 sub-groups focusing on Legal and Ethical aspects and Software. The seven sub-groups have ...