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Meeting the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) quality criteria in the global South

08/10/2018

(Publishing in Open Access Journals, IDRC | CRDI) Open Access is when publications are freely availble online to all at no cost and with limited restrictions with regards reuse. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, ...

FARMER RIGHTS on DATA and OWNERSHIP issues (recorded GODAN's webinar)

06/10/2018

What do we mean by farmers’ rights to data?Who owns data?Who is entitled to the value of the data?What is the role of privacy in the agricultural sector?These and other related questions are answeredin this GODAN's webinar on FARMER RIGHTS on DATA and OWNERSHIP issuesBACKGROUNDThere is ...

The total number of AGRIS records reaches 9,466,760 (September 2018)

02/10/2018

The FAO AGRIS team is pleased to inform all AGRIS data providers and users about the AGRIS September 2018 data release with 76,077 new records.  As of September 2018, number of AGRIS multilingual bibliographic records has reached 9,466,760 (July 2018: 9,268,679).   The next AGRIS data release will take place in October 2018. The AGRIS team at the ...

Open Agriculture Foundation | Google Cloud: creating healthier, more engaging, and more inventive food with technology

26/09/2018

Open Agriculture Foundation: Why it does what it doesOpen Agriculture Foundation (OpenAg) - founded in 2015 by Caleb Harper as an initiative of the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - is an open-source community of more than 2,000 members working towards building an ecosystem that spans research, non-profit, ...

GODAN Donor Open Data Policy and Practice : comparing Open Data Policies and putting Common Policy into practice

24/09/2018

The "GODAN Donor Open Data Policy and Practice" publication compares Open Data policies, and discusses putting policy into practice using lessons from implementation in five agriculture programmes. AUTHORS: Fiona Smith (Open Data Institute), Jamie Fawcett (Open Data Institute), Ruthie Musker (GODAN)This research was commissioned by a group of donors – ...