Posts on the Topic "youth"
Invitation to Survey : Digitalisation for agriculture in Africa - UAS-assisted land demarcation
26/03/2019
The Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) is conducting a study on "digitalisation for agriculture in Africa: UAS-assisted land demarcation". Are you aware of one or more ongoing or completed initiatives / projects focusing on land demarcation and where unmanned aerial systems...27/ 03
2019
Bridging the Gender Data Gap and Connecting Data Communities
Paris, France 27/03/2019
This webinar adds to the existing discourse on gender data by demonstrating how partnerships within data systems are necessary for closing existing gaps and generating evidence-based policy for women and girls. The three different perspectives will offer webinar participants a unique view of progress towards closing gaps, collaborations that have cultivate that success, and the roadblocks that impede further progress.
The following questions will be discussed:
Call on digital innovations for agriculture in the Europe and Central Asia region
25/03/2019
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia has launched a call on digital innovations for agriculture in that region. The call aims at collecting lessons learned and recommendations for the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) or digital innovations in the sectors of...
Focus on women and ICTs in Agriculture
20/03/2019
In most developing countries due to rural-urban migration, rural communities are losing young people and agriculture is robbed of the needed workforce. The result has been that many smallholder farms have more women and girls remaining on the farms providing bulk of the labour force. Advances in...
WSIS FORUM 2019: FAO Director-General Video Message
20/03/2019
As the WSIS Forum 2019, a multistakeholder platform facilitating the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines for advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the FAO Director-General Mr. José Graziano da Silva has delivered a video message to International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and...
‘WorldBank Group to support Africa’s digital transformation’
20/03/2019
In an opinion piece on CNN Business, the WorldBank Group CEO and interim presidents noted that automation and artificial intelligence (and other disruptive technologies) could revolutionize the industrialized world, and with great potential to the developing world. O n her tweeter account, Ms...11/ 03
2019
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2019
Commission on the Status of Women #CSW63
New York, United States of America 11/03/2019 – 22/03/2019
The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March 2019.
Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world are expected to attend the session.
Priority theme: Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
CTA Project 'Eyes in the Sky, Smart Techs on the ground' showcased
15/02/2019
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTAs) project, ‘ Transforming Africa’s Agriculture: Eyes in the Sky, Smart Techs on the Ground” was this week showcased at FAO headquarters in Rome, at the IFAD Governing Council Meeting. Besides the stand display, there was a...15/ 01
2019
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2019
Humanitarian Hackathon
Brussels, Belgium 15/01/2019 – 16/01/2019
The Humanitarian Hackathon is a two-day event, taking place in Egmont Palace. It is designed to create technology-driven solutions for the most pressing humanitarian challenges. International and Belgian humanitarian organisations, donors, large companies, startups, scientists and engineers will be presented with 6 different challenges to choose from. Participation is free but application is mandatory.
