Notes and Impressions from the first AGRIS OAI workshop

possible pilots for the first AGRIS open Archives in India:
Kerala Research Institute on tropical plantages
University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

The Gartner Hype Curve 2005

Digital Ecosystems

I had a meeting this morning at the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, in which participated the Undersecretary Stefano Boco, Paolo Dini from the London School of Economics, Francesco Nachira Section Head (Digital Ecosystems) from the European Commission and representatives di T6, an Italian non for profit private company,

Is Europe better than America? (page 73)

A nation, it has been said, is a group of people united by a common dislike of their neighbours and a shared misunderstanding of their own past... (p.73)
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Egyptian agricultural knowledge back to Egypt

The Egyptian NARIMSteam succeeded today to import more than 38.000 records into they system. These 38.000 records contain information about Egyptian Agricultural publications and they were available for decades only through AGRIS. This is a major success in using the AGRIS systems for national capacity building!

Bertrand Russell; Marriage and Morals

Russells liberal opinions, expressed in this book are surely sometimes based on some wrong antropological assumptions. The book is also surely gender biased (male!!). But still an interesting read - and I agree mostly with him. First published in 1929 - ISBN 0-415-07917-9

Marriage

S.88 pp ....This, however, is an example of the mental peculiarity of human beings, from which spring both their vices and their intelligence, namely the power of imagination to break up habits and initiate new lines of conduct. ... In general, marriage is easiest where people are least differentiated. When a man differs litle from other men, and a woman differs little form others women, there is no particular reason to regret not having married someone else.....

Gerhard and I

Christiane and Sylke

Christiane auf dem Weg Zum Weissen Wasser

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