"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)
In 2016, GODAN was the first time officially appointed as an Observer to the meeting of the G20 Agricultural Chief Scientists. I represented the GODAN secretariat at the meeting in Xian. Now all important Agricultural institutions of G20 members are GODAN partners (except Russia). Germany announced at the meeting to hold a Linked Open Data workshop in 2017 and to create a German position in the GODAN secretariat
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.
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...