Access to data and digital technologies

  1. First BigDataEurope workshop on “Big data for food, agriculture and forestry: opportunities and challenges”
    As part of the next meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) that will take place on September 21st-22nd in Paris, the BigDataEurope action is organising a workshop dedicated to “Big data for food, agriculture and forestry: opportunities and challenges…
  2. Report of the Workshop on Open Access to Agricultural Knowledge for Inclusive Growth and Development. 29-30 October 2014
    Report of the workshop on Open Access to Agricultural Knowledge for Inclusive Growth and Development, which took place in Hyderabad on 29-30 October 2014. The workshop was organized by National Academy of Agricultural Research Management Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-50030 In partnership with the…
  3. Valeria Pesce
    Project manager, information systems expert and convener at the Secretariat of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR). Member of the Secretariat of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative (GODAN). Responsible for engaging partners in actions and…
  4. Project receives ‘excellent’ review from EC
    One of the main objectives of GFAR’s activities around “opening access to knowledge” has been supporting the ability of organizations to work together to improve the sharing, managing and using of agricultural data. This has been a key element of the CIARD movement of which GFAR is a co-founder…
  5. Call for tenders: experienced researcher to work on a research report for GODAN
    The Open Data Institute (ODI) is calling for tenders for an experienced researcher to work on a research report on the potential impacts of open data on global agriculture and nutrition.   The objective of this work is to contribute targeted research and discrete written content to…
  6. Agricultural Open Data in the Caribbean
    Open government data and open agricultural data are rapidly emergent focus areas in Caribbean policy, research and development circles. CTA has commissioned this baseline study in the framework of its 2014 AgriHack Talent Caribbean activity, which aims to support youth Information and Communication…
  7. GFAR participates with FAO in the H2020 Big Data Europe project
    GFAR joined efforts with FAO in the H2020 project "Big Data Europe: Integrating Big Data, Software & Communities for Addressing Europe's Societal Challenges" (BDE). The project is funded under the H2020 Work Programme Strategic Objective ICT 15 - 2014: Big data and Open Data Innovation and…
  8. Survey on the level of awareness and usage of the CIARD RING
    Are you an agricultural data manager or developer? Or maybe you are interested in information services that can be built on agricultural data or you you want to have an overview of what type of agricultural data are available and where. If so, we want to hear from you.    The…
  9. Hackathon for agricultural open data
    Adapting to the trend of open data, promoting agricultural data sharing and application - those are a few of the problems that six teams aimed to tackle at a Hackathon during November 18th to 20th 2014 in the Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural…
  10. Open Access to Knowledge for South and South East of China
    Over the past 3 years, the Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) in collaboration and support from GFAR and CIARD have been advocating and building capacities in opening access to data and information of the agricultural research and…
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