(Image source: UNDP; Using blockchain to make land registry more reliable in India)
Below you will find some thoughts about the impact of Blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chain related to several existing projects and initiatives, overall implications, challenges and potential of Blockchain technology enhanced by relevant semantics ...
Common vocabularies, data standards, application profiles and ontologies - seen as agreed “world views” for interoperability - are key in ensuring we can make better meaning, management and, ultimately, use of the vast amounts of data becoming available every day. Semantic interoperability is the possibility that information distributed over the ...
African Libraries play a central role as in today’s information led economic, social and cultural development. Different types of libraries serve as “motors” that drive the creation; access and usage of information and knowledge needed for this societal transformation. The IFLA AFRICA SECTION invites Librarians, Information Scientists and other ...
The Creative Commons (CC) Certificate is an in-depth course about CC licenses, open practices and the ethos of the Commons. CC plans on adding new fields of practice, launching a certificate instructor training program, and funding a CC Certificate scholarship program. The CC Certificate powers you with knowledge to better ...
The Africa Information Highway (AIH) - launched by the Statistics Department of African Development Bank Group (AfDB) in 2012, as part of the Bank’s statistical capacity building program (SCB) in Africa - represents a mega network of live open data platforms (ODPs) electronically linking all African countries and 16 regional organizations. ...