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University specialization entitled: “Assessing Impact of Development Programmes on Food Security” delivered by FAO and UOC

14/09/2015

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) are jointly delivering a  University specialization entitled: “Assessing Impact of Development Programmes on Food Security”Find out more about the course here.The specialization is based on the FAO elearning courses (accessible at: ...

E-Forum on Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies – Wrap up of the first week

14/09/2015

At the mid-point of the e-Forum on “Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies” it is time to wrap up the first week:356 people from 80 countries and territories are participating in the e-Forum. All in all there have been 68 contributions in the first week, most ...

Webinar: Challenges and opportunities of linking Open Access and Open Science with the Sustainable Development Goals

11/09/2015

We are pleased to announce the webinar “Challenges and opportunities of linking Open Access and Open Science with the Sustainable Development Goals" that will take place in conjunction with the e-forum on "Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies".The e-forum is an online event ...

ODI cooks up new focus on open data, agriculture and nutrition

09/09/2015

With over 7 billion mouths to feed and a food retail industry worth $4 trillion a year, we are exploring how open data can make our global food system more efficient, from farm to fork One reason why working in open data is so exciting is that it can bring benefits to ...

The application of Open Source GIS tools in Drupal CMS.

08/09/2015

IntroductionContent Management Systems are applications that allows publishing, editing and modifying content, organizing, deleting as well as maintenance from a central interface. A CMS consists of two elements: the content management application (CMA) and the content delivery application (CDA).Another aspect of CMS is that most of the top and ...