“Around the world, a movement called the “OPEN DATA revolution” is under way to make data available for public use.  This movement is expected to generate new insights, drive better decision-making, and enable governments, civil society, and the private sector to better target interventions and programs”, - Open Data Revolution ...

As of May 2018, number of AGRIS multilingual bibliographic records/resources has reached 9,240,587. New 29,453 records include all received data until April 2018. The next AGRIS data release will take place in June 2018. AGRIS wishes to thank all AGRIS contributors and users! AGRIS : BACKGROUND  FAO - AGRIS (International Information System for the Agricultural ...

The GODAN Action team is pleased to re-open the applications for theFree e-Learning course on Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition. This e-Learning course aims to strengthen the capacity of data producers and data consumers to manage and use open data in agriculture and nutrition.Call for applications - ...

GOSH Roadmap: launching a revolution in access to scientific toolsOver 100 researchers, engineers, educators, entrepreneurs and community organizers from 30 countries have published a report describing the steps for providing global access to scientific hardware by 2025 through open source designs, collaborative research and new manufacturing techniques, including 3D-printing.__________________________________________________________________________________________The authors of the ‘...

Download the case study (pdf) Using Dgroups to bring together a global community of purpose: Healthcare Information For All (HIFA)  “DGroups simply works. The software that DGroups runs on, works better than any other tool for communities of practice”, -  Neil Pakenham-Walsh, HIFA Coordinator and DGroups Chair The issues the ...