Posts on the Topic "decision-makers"
e-Forum discussion on the Agriculture Open Data Package - AgPack.info
12/07/2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Global Open Data on Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) are inviting interested individuals to participate in this forum discussion on ' Agriculture Open Data Package' to be held on the e-Agriculture Platform...
FAO Director-General urges African agriculture ministers to tackle rural youth unemployment through investments and ICTs
04/07/2017
Youth employment should be at the center of any strategy to face economic and demographic challenges in Africa, the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization José Graziano da Silva told a joint African Union- European Union meeting, hosted at FAO headquarters in Rome on July 2nd...27/ 06
2017
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 |
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...
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...
FAO and ITU meet with Papua New Guinea's government to consult on the e-Agriculture strategy
01/06/2017
Papua New Guinea's Department of Agriculture & Livestock (DAL), the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), among other partners working on ICTs for agriculture, met in Port Moresby on May 30th, 2017 to consult on the e...
Invitation to join the Workshop at WSIS Forum 2017 on eKrishok
30/05/2017
Dear Fellow Colleagues, Greetings from Bangladesh, Trust all are doing well. We are glad to share that BIID will host a session titled eKrishok: Making ICT Works for Agricultural Sector to Empower Farmers and Agro-SMEs during the WSIS Forum Meeting 2017 to be held during June 12-16, 2017 at Geneva...
EM-DAT: The International Disaster Database
30/05/2017
The Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) was created by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), a leading repository of information on the impact of disasters, in 1988. The Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) is a free database containing worldwide data on the occurrence and...