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STAC Sprint: Sign up for Software Sprint Next Week!
Aug. 13, 2020 • Hana Kubickova
"With the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) spec recently reaching 1.0.0-beta, we figured it’s time for one final sprint before we push out 1.0.0 final. The goal with STAC has always been to
Digitalisation in African agriculture as a means to beat COVID and hunger pandemic
Aug. 8, 2020 • Tuula Loytty
"With a continent-wide recession looming and the UN predicting a “hunger pandemic” in the wake of the coronavirus, there are two ways in which the world can help right now: with data and with investm
Food System Capacity Building
July 17, 2020 • Felix Kariuki
Africa Food Systems mainly comprises of two actors, production and market, unlike food systems in advanced economies where research and development of aggregation, processing, distribution, consumpti
Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 reports published
July 11, 2020 • Tuula Loytty
The four reports are published on the GODAN f1000 open publishing gateway. Here are the relevant references and DOI: Hájek P, Valeš J, Jedlička K and Ekwacu S. Climate Change Trends for Africa [vers
African Conference on Precision Agriculture (AfCPA 2020)
July 11, 2020 • Tuula Loytty
AfCPA 2020 seeks to highlight new advances in the fields of experimental and applied precision agriculture and we invite you to submit abstracts for oral, poster, or virtual presentations within one
SmartAfriHub community is growing
June 24, 2020 • Tuula Loytty
We share the news of new applications, solutions and implementations both in SmartAfriHub platform and in three main social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and WhatsApp. They together fo
Invitation to Metadata & Data Sharing and Management Principles
June 16, 2020 • Hana Kubickova
We would like to cordially invite you to the upcoming webinar dedicated to metadata and FAIR sharing principles for best practice in research data management that is scheduled on Tuesday 23rd June at
Recording of RDA/IGAD Webinar Series: “Developing Best Practice Principles for Agricultural Data Management”
May 21, 2020 • Hana Kubickova
As part of the Research Data Alliance's (RDA)/ Agricultural Data Interest Group's (IGAD) ongoing webinar series, aimed to keep up with cutting edge developments in agricultural data, and encourage th
IGAD Online meeting: Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon as an example of Capacity Development for Agriculture
May 20, 2020 • Hana Kubickova
The Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 will be presented as an example of Capacity Development for Agriculture during the INTEREST GROUP ON AGRICULTURAL DATA (IGAD) Online Meeting by Suchith Anand (GODAN
INTEREST GROUP ON AGRICULTURAL DATA (IGAD) Online Meeting – 25 to 28 MAY 2020
May 20, 2020 • Hana Kubickova
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) meeting focusing on IGAD/RDA : Sharing Experiences and Creating Digital Dialogues, which was set to be held in Rome (Italy)