The Open Land Use is an initiative of Plan4All association to create a seamless land use/ land cover map. At first, the initiative was focused on creating an OLU map just for Europe filling it just with land use/ land cover data. Later, the extent has changed also to Africa, and the data model has changed to easily integrate other thematic data (soils, geomorphology etc.).  In the first...

During last year's INSPIRE Hackathon the SmartAfriHubs Digital Innovation Hub (https://www.smartafrihub.com/cs/home) was developed. Moreover, there was a community built around it, which is now active on WhatsUp and Facebook. We would like this Hackathon to test possibilities of an extended environment, which will be more user friendly and which will allow large active sharing of information by...

Feb 24, 2022 Thu 9:00 AM -10:30 AM EST (Washington DC time), 15:00 PM - 16:30 PM CET Click here to convert to your local Time WebEx (information enclosed below) Digitalization and access to data in rural areas have been crucial in the design and delivery of a new generation of financial services including a diversity of credit, savings, payments, remittances, insurance which can reach rural...

Hosted by the Government of South Africa through the Department of Science and Innovation and Supported by the European Commission (EC) and African Union Commission (AUC), IST-Africa 2022 (May) is the seventeenth in an annual series of Ministerial Level Technology Research and Innovation Conferences. IST-Africa 2022 has Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE Society on Social...

Challenge 5 provision is to build knowledge that is based on maps and satellite images for infrastructure investors to enhance Leveling Rural Water Supply and Just-In-Time Irrigation.  The infrastructure investor may be e.g. an African national, regional, and local government, abroad investor, or commercial operator.  Leveling Rural Water Supply means that the water...

Dear Innovation Portal user, Your opinion matters to us! Thank you for taking the time to answer a few questions about your experience with the Innovation Portal, and to outline your needs and expectations of it. (https://www.smartagrihubs.eu/login) This survey should take no longer than 10 minutes. Your responses will help us to continue developing a platform adapted to the SAH ecosystem and...

The GEO Indigenous Summit 2020 7-9 December 2020 Online Join Indigenous leaders from around the world as they discuss Indigenous-led innovation in Earth observations data, science and technology. This will build on the GEO Indigenous hackathon, bringing together Indigenous knowledge and state-of-the-art science and technology, as well as the global GEO community. No registration required!...

GODAN is pleased to invite you to the GODAN/AODIRF Digital Forum on the topic of sustainable investment in the agricultural sector in Developing Countries. Thursday 3 December, 2020 13h00 - Coordinated Universal Time Join the meeting here: https://zoom.us/j/93464959428 See HERE for more information.   The agriculture and food sector is facing numerous...

Supported by the European Commission (EC) and African Union Commission (AUC), IST-Africa Week 2021 (May) is the sixteenth in an annual series of Ministerial Level Technology Research and Innovation Conferences. IST-Africa provides a platform in Africa to strengthen technology-enabled Innovation, Science and Technology and Entrepreneurship related policy dialogues within Africa and between...

After more than two months of hacking, the COVID-19 INSPIRE Hackathon was terminated by a final presentation of results & awards ceremony. The jury members Jovana Vlaskalin (BioSense Institute), Beata Vörösová (CzechInvest), Maris Albers (University of Latvia) and Josef Hnojil (Geobusiness) announced the following winners for the COVID-19 INSPIRE hackathon: 1st place –...

COVID-19 INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 aiming to develop and share agri-food economy solutions to balance the imperatives of the present with the demands of the future goes after two-month hacking into the final stage scheduled at 19th November 12:30PM! Register now! In the COVID-19 INSPIRE Hackathon hackers have addressed the following topics: Facilitate access to data and services for an...

This webinar scheduled on 20th October at 9 AM CEST will present three challenges that use the Atlas of Best Practice to present solutions to problems that arise in connection with Covid-19 in various areas. These challenges are Atlas of Regional Specialities, Atlas of the Best Practices – Polirural cases and Atlas of Social Enterprises. At the same time, it offers interesting examples of how...

Join global participants in technology, Earth observation and space sectors for two days of networking, virtual talks, virtual exhibitions and inspiring ideation sessions at this year’s GEO Week 2020 Virtual Industry Track. The first-ever fully virtual GEO Week Industry Track will connect you with Industry leaders, SMMEs and Regulators as we all converge to collaborate and solve...

Through this webinar scheduled on 15th October at 10 AM CEST, we would like to invite you directly into the topic of one aspect of remote EBAG (eco-, bio-, agro-, geo-) education: how we can utilize and apply the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) approach in the field of distance EBAG education. Is that really applicable? And how? We need to focus on open access as one of the RRI...

Do you want to learn more about Calculation of agro-climatic factors and their potential for utilization in the agri-food sector? This is exactly what you can learn during the webinar scheduled on 14th October at 2 PM CEST. On the top of that, methods to calculate selected factors based on different data sets from the global perspective to regional will be presented. Evaluation and assessment...

Yet another webinar is scheduled for next week – this time a webinar dedicated to challenge 11 of the COVID-19 INSPIRE Hackathon that is being supported by ESA BIC Prague? Do you need more information about the main goals and current approach to the solution of this challenge? You will learn this and much more from the COVID-19 INSPIRE Hackathon mentors during this webinar that is scheduled on...

Register now! Are you still thinking about registration for the challenge #4? Do you need more information about the main goals and general understanding of rural attractiveness? You will learn this and much more from the COVID-19 INSPIRE Hackathon mentors during the webinar dedicated to challenge #4 of COVID 19 INSPIRE Hackathon that is scheduled on 12th October.  Agenda of the...

We regret to infrom you that tomorrow webinar on Why is the traditional knowledge of African agriculture disappearing? was canceled due to force majeur.  This webinar has been re-scheduled on 23rd October and you are cordially invited to hear from our presenters Antoine Kantiza and Didier Muyiramye. You can still register for this free webinar HERE! During the webinar, you will learn ...

Why is the traditional knowledge of African agriculture disappearing? This is what will be discussed during the upcoming webinar scheduled on 30th September and you are cordially invited to hear from our presenters Antoine Kantiza and Didier Muyiramye. Register now! Agenda Current state of indigenous knowledge in African agriculture Best practices driven from Indigenous Knowledge in...

Do you have GIS-related data you want to share using open technologies? We will present you a way to publish data using QGIS via Layman QGIS Plugin and visualize them using HSLayers-NG, which is a web-based application for sharing data and maps from different HUBs with a broad community. These tools can contribute to enabling Citizen Science Network creation for better data sharing and...