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A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture: Transforming rural livelihoods with the power of information
14/07/2017
CGIAR launched the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, a new initiative that aims to convene researchers to use big data in order to help improve food security, resilience in the face climate change as well as encouraging rural development. Big data are immense stocks of information...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
AGORA Webinars: Effective Search Strategies for Researchers. Finding resources on AGORA and other platforms (EN/FR/ES)
13/07/2017
As promoted on AIMS We are pleased to announce three upcoming webinars in English, French and Spanish about developing search strategie for researchers. We will demonstrate how a well formulated search strategy can facilitate literature search on the AGORA platform via Summon and on other platforms...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
ICT in Agriculture e-Sourcebook: Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions
10/07/2017
Realizing the potential of ICTs in developing countries' agriculture, the Agriculture and Rural Development Department (ARD) of the World Bank in collaboration with InfoDev (part of the World Bank Group) embarked in an effort to explore and capture the expanding knowledge and use of ICT tools in...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
The new ICT Update is now online: Applications for agriculture
07/07/2017
The new ICT Update, Issue 85 is now available online. The issue is entitled "Applications for Agricultue" reporting CTA's work in covering the growth and proliferation of digital and mobile phone technologies for agriculture. CTA is now moving forward by developing the Apps4Ag database - which is...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
Apply for the World Summit Innovators (WSA) awards for Young Innovators by 31/08/2017
27/06/2017
Text taken from WSA The WSA Young Innovators call is elidgible for projects that: Are deveolped by young innovators under the age of 30 Offer digital solutions to any of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Deliver content rich digital solutions to the user including individuals, businesses and...

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Technical seminar and launching of e-learning course on communication for rural development
Rome, Italy 27/06/2017
Technical seminar and launching of e-learning course on communication for rural development

 

FAO Technical Cooperation Project (TCP) Emergency response to enhance technical capacity for early warning, monitoring and management of Fall Armyworm in Sri Lanka
What Is the Future of ICT4Ag?
22/06/2017
With the ICTforAg Conference scheduled for June 23rd in Washington, D.C., we got to thinking about the future of AgTech. A key lesson learned from the first wave of ICT4Ag development, which is now driving a new era, is that it doesn’t matter how brilliantly an app is designed but rather whether the...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
WSIS 2017 Outcomes
22/06/2017
More than 2,500 information and communication technology (ICT) experts from around the world took part from the 12th to the 16th of June 2017 in the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2017, where they exchanged knowledge and experiences to achieve the United Nations Sustainable...