AIMS

New Webinar@AIMS: Perspective on Big Data in the CGIAR

27/01/2016

The AIMS team in cooperation with the BigDataEurope Consortium is pleased to announce the webinar “Perspective on Big Data in the CGIAR”. It is open for information management specialists, librarians, software developers and other interested people.AbstractTo help reaching the Sustainable Development Goals, CGIAR must tap into Big Data.  Within ...

EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot funds Journal Titles

27/01/2016

The list of funded requests keeps growing and has now reached nearly 200 publications!  An online list funded titles by this FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot is being maintained here.The EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot provides an additional instrument to improve access to research results from FP7 projects  through ...

Data sharing and use of ICTs in agriculture: working with small farmer groups in Colombia: a new OA article!

26/01/2016

The site-specific agriculture project of the International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) aimed to improve the productivity of four fruit crops in Colombia through the sharing of farmer’s knowledge using an online platform. CIAT’s knowledge management team supported the project investigating several questions, whose findings will be used ...

Mapping big data to existing food & beverage industry problems

25/01/2016

The 2013 report on “Formula for growth: Innovation, big data and analytics” developed by the US Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and Deloitte Consulting L.L.P. is a very interesting one, outlining the opportunities that big data offers to food and beverage manufacturers, bringing the industry perspective to the big data ...

GODAN partners launch #HackFrancophonie open data camp on datasets from French-speaking countries!

22/01/2016

On February 19, 2016, Paris will host #HackFrancophonie, an event which will bring together participants from over eight  Francophone countries and three continents. Different open data-based projects will be presented! Registration for this public event is free.A new upcoming  open data camp is launched by Etalab and Burkina Faso Open Data ...