AIMS

D8 - Open Data for Agriculture: G8 side event at IFPRI

30/04/2013

On the first of May, the day after the G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture, a special G8 side event will be held at International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) headquarters in Washington, DC. The event is entitled D8 - Open Data for Agriculture. D stands for data. 8 ...

Making progress towards Open Access for CGIAR

30/04/2013

The CGIAR has recently announced the progress made towards its openness agenda and reports that the draft CGIAR draft Open Access policy is now in wide circulation among its Research Centres, Research programs, donors and partners.The CGIAR Open Access Policy also plots a clear timeframe for moving the process ...

Don't miss the G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture

29/04/2013

The G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture will take place from 29-30 April in Washington, D.C. You can now participate virtually by going to one of the following websites: USDA Live website World Bank's website Data.gov Download the program The AIMS Community is represented by Johannes ...

The Development and Management of E-repositories course site is now online

29/04/2013

The Development and Management of E-repositories course is now available online on the Ocean Teacher platform.The course addresses the expertise and resources required to establish and manage sustainable repositories and the course topics were reviewed here. The AgriOcean DSpace component The AgriOcean DSpace component covers the materials on how ...

Evaluation of the VOA3R platform : a consultation is now launched

29/04/2013

A consultation to evaluate the VOA3R platform has been launched. You are invited to fill the questionnaire to help us to improve this major VOA3R outcome. The survey  questionnaire is available: English  French The VOA3R project comes to an end and your feedback is important for evaluating ...