Posted in NEWS, QUICKWIN PROJECTS on Sep 1st, 2010
Some time back, we argued against top‐down approaches. But we also said that fruitful knowledge exchange was a two‐way street. Confused? Clarification: Roots for Relevance. Stars to Scale up.
We want STRONG ROOTS to grow from the bottom up. Like Honorables Mamadou Simpara and Sounkoutoun Sissoko, MPs for Banamba and Diema Districts, Mali. They will champion [...]
Posted in NEWS on Jun 11th, 2010
Kenya’s agriculture minister opens Africa Agriculture Geospatial Week and calls for efforts to take geospatial information to the ‘last mile’
Posted in NEWS on May 31st, 2010
Training sessions from OpenStreetMap and aWhere have been included in the program of the Africa Agriculture GIS Week 2010. The Training Day will take place on Friday 11 June and will include sessions from ESRI, Google, OpenStreetMap and aWhere.
Countdown started for the Africa Agriculture GIS week (AAGW) 2010: entitled ‘Taking a closer look at the role of spatial information and analysis in supporting improved agricultural research and development’, it will take place in Nairobi from 8 to 12 June, 2010, on the campus of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) with this tentative agenda.
Posted in NEWS on Apr 22nd, 2010
ICTs can help smallholder farmers maximise the return on agricultural inputs, provided timely and relevant information is made available to them.
A feature by Enrica Porcari, CGIAR Chief Information Officer, ICT-KM Program Leader and AGCommons Program Leader, in the I4D (Information For Development) Magazine describes the work of the ICT-KM Program, the AGCommons service bureau and [...]
From 8 -12 June 2010 the Consortium for Spatial Information (CSI) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), AGCommons, HarvestChoice and other partners are jointly organizing the second Africa Agriculture GIS Week to be held at the ILRI Campus in Nairobi. We are looking for experiences to be shared and innovative ideas and in the field [...]
Posted in NEWS on Apr 14th, 2010
The explosive growth of social media whether it be Yammer, Twitter or Facebook in Africa along with the rise of the Cheetah Generation, where half the population of Africa is under 15yrs of age, is leading to a dramatic shift in the way that people perceive African development, growth and technical innovation.
Posted in NEWS, TECHNOLOGY on Apr 6th, 2010
The AGCommons team has been working with global datasets from HarvestChoice, Open Streeet Map, CGIAR-CSI, Google Map Maker, and the WFP among others. Aside from ensuring that these data are relevant at a local level in Africa the team has been looking at different ways to actually deliver the information to the [...]
Posted in NEWS on Mar 29th, 2010
From time to time, we need to step back and consider “Why AGCommons?” Because almost everything in the realm of agricultural development is dependent upon a clear understanding of “spatial” data components or “where” data. These include, for example, the location of: critical soil types, ecosystems, climate, market opportunities, pest populations, etc. We can see [...]
Posted in NEWS on Mar 25th, 2010
“The time has come to put all of Kenya and the rest of Africa on the map”: Google’s efforts to provide reach geographic data started in 2009 when Google Maps was launched in Kenya making available through any web browser detailed maps of many Kenyan towns.
Google Maps was followed by Map Maker, which Google presented also [...]
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