Posts on the Country "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"
Article: AI-powered banana diseases and pest detection
05/08/2019
A recent paper has been published and examines the use of Artificial Intelligence in 'just-in-time' crop disease detection in banana. The paper reviews research towards the development of an AI-based banana disease and pest detection system using a deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) to...
Call for National Experts for the Deep Dive Study on Digital Innovation
10/07/2019
IMC Worldwide have been commissioned by DFID to undertake a Deep Dive Study on Digital Innovation within DFID’s agriculture programmes. In 2018, DFID launched its Digital Strategy, aiming to establish DFID as a global leader in digital technology and development in order to have greater, faster and...08/ 11
2018
Digital Inclusion and a Trusted Internet
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 08/11/2018
As development programmes increasingly deploy digital tools and invest in increasing access, we need to engage with issues of data security and cybersecurity in a more informed and comprehensive way.
16/ 10
2018
17/ 10
2018
WORLD AGRI-TECH: Innovation Summit
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 16/10/2018 – 17/10/2018
The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit is an international networking and deal-making event for global agribusinesses, solution providers, entrepreneurs and investors. The goal of the summit is to accelerate the commercialization of advanced agricultural technologies by generating global partnerships and collaborations..
Funding sources for ICT4D Research
11/09/2018
The UNESCO Chair in ICT4D has published a page that provides a catalog of funding for ICT4D research. This page comes in handy as funding information is haphazardly littered on newsletters, funders’ websites, social media and many other diverse sources. Once can constantly check their page and also...
GODAN Action Training Mini-Grants
10/03/2018
GODAN Action project is calling on interested and eligible institutions to apply for the GODAN Action Training Mini-Grants of GBP 2,000. The call is open until the 7th of May 2018. See the announcement as published by GODAN below. Source : GODAN Action/CTA Call for proposals Deadline: 7 May 2018, 23...22/ 11
2017
Turning Data into Decisions in AgriFood
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 22/11/2017
31/ 08
2017
Precision Agriculture: Data-Driven Approach to Crop Monitoring and Disease Diagnosis
Manchester, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 31/08/2017
This workshop (organised as part of the Newton-Funded project “Agri-Tech in China: Newton Network+ (ATCNN)”- Proof-of-Concept Award) will focus on solutions and methods for precision crop monitoring and disease diagnosis using different data sources, such as remote sensing, ground sensing/camera phone images. The workshop invites researchers and practitioners from Bioscience, Computer Science and Agriculture to talk about their work and the challenges.
24/ 08
2017
Effective data communication using data visualisations Part 1 - Infographics
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 24/08/2017
Data visualisation has been around at least since the 18th century and recently the increase of a number of easy-to-use tools have made the creation of different types of data visualisations, including infographics, available to a large segment of the population. Visualizations can help reveal important trends in agriculture and nutrition to support many objectives including advocacy and training.