Items in the category "ICTS (Information and Communications Technology Services)"

Joint GODAN-CIARD Consultation on Open Agricultural Knowledge for Development

CIARD-GODAN consultation April 2014 [Events] The CIARD (www.ciard.net) partners and the GODAN (www.godan.info) partners are going to meet in a joint GODAN-CIARD Consultation on Open Agricultural Knowledge for Development, taking place in Rome between 22nd and 24th April.  More information here: http://www.ciard.net/1st-...

Enabling Open Access to Agricultural Data and Information

Enabling Open Access to Agricultural Data and Information [News]  It can open new avenues for research. This data can be used to improve efficiencies of production and farming systems and agricultural market chains at global, regional and national levels. It can improve food safety and contribute to risk management in farming. Opening access to research...

Towards better networking and collaboration in agriculture: AgriVIVO 1.0 launched

AgriVIVO 1.0 launched [News] To enable better networking and collaboration in agriculture, AgriVIVO, managed by the GFAR Secretariat and developed jointly with Cornell University and FAO, has been launched: http://www.agrivivo.net.   AgriVIVO is a search portal built to facilitate connections between all actors...

AgriVIVO. Fostering better networking and collaboration among researchers, research managers, practitioners, extensionists, information managers in agriculture.

Image - EGFAR [Document] Presentation of the AgriVIVO project: background and rationale, history of VIVO, AgriVIVO architecture and approach.

AgriVIVO for enabling global networking for agriculture. Concept Note

Image - EGFAR [Document] Concept note for the AgriVIVO project. The primary goal of AgriVIVO is to facilitate better networking of individual researchers and the organizations they belong to for better collaborations and less duplication of efforts. This project will demonstrate the potential for AgriVIVO to leverage...

Two training courses on agricultural scientific data sharing and the CIARD RING organized by the CIARD RING China working group

CIARD RING China working group - training [News] The CIARD RING China working group organized two workshops in June and July 2012 to raise awareness on the objectives of the CIARD RING and train staff of Chinese agricultural science Institutions in the use of the RING portal. Part of the workshops was dedicated to the illustration of...

National Agriculture Data/Information Sharing System Development Workshop in Hangzhou, China

China RING [News] In order to promote agricultural scientific research data and information sharing, accelerate the development of China's agricultural information sharing system, establish effective cooperation mechanisms, strengthen the building of a national agricultural scientific research information...

AgriVIVO: an Ontology-based Store of URIs and Relations between Entities in Agricultural Research

Image - EGFAR [Document] In order to facilitate better collaboration between agricultural research actors and ensure more effective management of research projects and more rational funding, it is desirable to have access to comprehensive information on people's expertise, areas of activities of Institutions, existing...

GFAR events embedded into the FAO Country Profiles

FAO country profiles [News] The FAO Country Profiles information system (http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles) is an information retrieval tool which groups FAO and partner organizations' archives of information in agriculture and development in a single area and groups it and presents it by country. The FAO...

Interim Proceedings of International Expert Consultation on “Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing”. Beijing, 20-23 June 2011

Image - EGFAR [Document] The International Expert Consultation at Beijing from 20-23 June 2011 sought to stimulate and develop broad-based consideration of AR4D data and is an initial step in a future global activity towards more effective and efficient sharing of Agriculture research-related data and information. The...

Youth, ICTs and Agriculture – Wrapping up this special blog series/Les jeunes, les TIC et l’agriculture : clôture de la série spéciale de blogs

Image - EGFAR [News] The special series of blogs on Agriculture, ICTs and Young Professionals  was launched at the end of the International Year of Youth, one of many activities during the last twelve months that mark the beginning of a greater recognition of the need to engage youth in the issues that...

Focus points

Image - EGFAR [Document]