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IFLA launched the Development and Access to Information (DA2I) report

20/07/2017

On 17 July, 2017, in the context of the United Nations High Level Political Forum (UN HLPF), IFLA celebrated the role of libraries in delivering access to information at the global level, by launching the first Development and Access to Information (DA2I) Report. The DA2I initiative underlines: (1) the importance of ...

Digital Skills and Digital Literacy : European Union policy actions

20/07/2017

(DigComp 2.0, EU SCIENCE HUB)The New Skills Agenda calls on Member States to develop comprehensive digital skills strategies. To support the countries with the development of their strategies the Commission has set up an expert group with representatives nominated by their Member State.Skills development is a lifelong process. And ...

CABI merges with SciDev.Net

19/07/2017

CABI (the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International) and SciDev.Net have agreed to merge, creating a stronger and more diverse combined organisation to help boost their shared mission to improve lives around the world.CABI is an intergovernmental, not-for-profit organisation that improves people’s lives worldwide by providing information ...

Towards Digital Object Cloud (DOC) compliant with the FAIR principles

19/07/2017

(Global Digital Object Cloud (DOC) - A Guiding Vision; by L. Lannom & P. Wittenburg, RDA, 2016)Have you ever heard of the Global Digital Object Cloud?  It is now widely agreed in the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and beyond that concept of the “Digital Object (DO)” is central to proper data ...

FOSTER Plus : Call to Open Science trainers

18/07/2017

One of the goals of the FOSTER Plus project - launched on the 22nd of May, 2017 - is to train researchers (and other stakeholders) to give training on Open Science. As part of this goal, FOSTER plus will develop a trainer hand book. If you are interested in contributing, please ...