"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything..." (Richard Feynman)
Sunday night we had the official banquet with President Luo of GAAS, who is also vice secretary of the party committee of Guangdong. Dr. Luo emphasized that the province of Guangdong was among the first in 1998 to bring internet services into rural areas. Bridging the rural digital divide would be one of their main goals and he wishes collaboration whit FAO on this
2 Colleagues from my group particpated in the IST event, organized by the European Commission to present 6th framwork projects on November 21-23 in Helsinki (https://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2006/conference/index_...). Attached is the Presentation given by Marta Iglesias in the Networking session on Knowledge Infrastructures.
This is an email I sent today to some of my colleagues. It is here out of context but could be of interest nevertheless.
Greetings from Bangalore airport, which is a quite uncomfortable place as there are no airline lounges and the crowds are filling up a small waiting area. Unfortunately all outbound flights from here to the "West" depart after 1 am......
The following publications, written by my group have been published on the Document Repository as part of "Agricultural Information
and Knowledge Management Papers" Series.
At the 7th AOS workshop Prabakhar presented the implementation of AGROVOC into the DEAL (Digital Ecosystem for Agricultural Lifelihoods) Application and the Kethi Environment to create local versions of AGROVOC. This is a good showcase of the use of the thesaurus outside the traditional library environment.
The thesaurus browser has been installed on village information systems and has been very well received.
At the last day of the AFITA conference in Bangalore I was called to chair the closing plenary and to participate in a following Panel discussion.
During the closing plenary all sessions and workshops reported back and gave some recommendations for the further work.
The 7th AOS workshop is a big success. It is unquestionable one of the best session of AFITA 2006. We have always between 25 and 40 participants (overall more than 46 people participated) in the workshop and the level of the presentations is really high. Participants came from India, China, Thailand, Japan, Sri Lanka, France, USA and FAO. 15 out of 16 presentations were given. The very positive side this time was the lifely discussion. Often presenters were also interrupted with questions.
