open source

Posts on the Topic "open source"

22/ 06

2026

26/ 06

2026

New York, United States of America 22/06/2026 – 26/06/2026

UN Open Source Week 2026 is the premier global forum for advancing open source collaboration in direct support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Global Digital Compact. The event demonstrates how open source drives digital cooperation, fosters innovation, and enables sustainable public infrastructure, turning ideas into practical impact.

03/ 10

2018

05/ 10

2018

Nairobi, Kenya 03/10/2018 – 05/10/2018

The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture is where information becomes power: power to predict, prescribe, and produce more food, more sustainably. It aims to democratize decades of agricultural data empowering analysts, statisticians, programmers and more to mine information for trends and quirks, and develop rapid, accurate and compelling recommendations for farmers, researchers and policymakers.

A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
25/09/2017
In this blog post, Ajit Maru describes all the requirements an ICT product has to have to be usable for the farmer: the hardware, the software, connectivity, skills, content, security and safety in use, privacy and a profitable and productive environment. But, he points out, some problems can rise...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
31/07/2017
Collect Earth is a free and open source software for land monitoring developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The software is part of the set of tools called Open Foris, and was developed with Google Earth, Bing Maps and Google Earth Engine. Collect Earth is...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
29/03/2017
Open Tenure is an open source software designed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to help communities to better govern their natural resources. It uses handheld tablets, and a community server allows community members to map and collect data on land tenure claims...