"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)
UPM in Kuala Lumpur is the AGRIS center with which my team in FAO has a collobaration of more than a decade. So it was a special pleasure for me to come here to present GODAN. This was in the context of a meeting on "sharing of scientific information". I was enthusiastic about the activities of the loca AGRIS center.
It is true for most countries, what the Economists retains nearly a Dogma: democracy and individual freedom go together. But this is not true for nearly half of the worlds population. The democratic India want to punish homosexuality with 14 years of jail; the Chinese autocracy is tolerant towards gays (actually the government campaigns for tolerance in the population.
On April 30 2013, the G8 organized a summit on open data in Agriculture. It took place in Washinton at the Worldbank. I represented the EC and the EC funded project agInfra.
A network of porous carbon tubes that is three-dimensionally interwoven at nano and micro level -- this is the lightest material in the world. It weights only 0.2 milligrams per cubic centimetre, and is therefore 75 times lighter than Styrofoam, but it is very strong nevertheless. Scientists of Kiel...
I participated from July 10-13 in International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics, which was organized by DRTC-ISI (Documentation, Research and Training Center, Indian Institute of Technology).
So it was a special pleasure for me to come here to present GODAN. This was in the context of a meeting on "sharing of scientific information". I was enthusiastic about the activities of the loca AGRIS center.
I represented the EC and the EC funded project agInfra.
