News

You can search in the AIMS website archive about news related to any topic about AIMS.

  • Third and last question

    Dear all, I believe we have heard enough ideas and experiences and that we should start formulating conclusions how to go further with Agridrupal. Johannes and I had a brief exchange and we thought it is best to combine the remaining questions: Is there a need to develop specific modules ...
  • Second question: what kind of support

    Dear all, Thanks for your contributions. I wil leave the first question open for a few days and will summarize by Thursday. Meanwhile I would like to stick to the schedule and ask the next question. It reads: What kind of support from other institutions in the agricultural domain would ...
  • Rangelands West: Going Global

    Valeria and I are in Tucson, participating in the inception workshop of the ISE-NIFA project on a global Knowledge System for Range Lands.  we will report life from the workshop.  Photos are at  http://www.flickr.com/photos/johanneskeizer/sets/72157624909516446/. The workshop has participants from University of Arizona, UC Davis, ...
  • Presentation and talks with the Outreach Division of the Secretariat

    yesterday I had a presentation with the staff of the "Information Aquisition and processing" cluster of the Outreach Division of the  UN secretariat.   After the presentation I had talks with Shinichi Kushima the cluster chief and we agreed to set up a common project.  Our discussion can be summarized as ...
  • Opening access to agricultural information in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

    The Open Access Working Group has was born from the final regional Implementation and Coordination of Agricultural Research (ICART) workshop by the SADC Network of Agricultural Research & Development Information Managers with its main aim on the development of a regional Agricultural Information Communication & Knowledge Management Strategy (AICKM). This programme is ...