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Dear IAALD member<br>
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This is the 21st selection of recent Agricultural Information news items
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August 23-27, 2008. IAALD/AFITA/WCCA Congress, Tokyo, Japan<br>
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July 13-17, 2009. IAALD Africa Conference, Accra, Ghana<br>
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August 31- September 4, 2009. 6th International Conference of Animal
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AgInfo News:<br>
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<b>IAALD wins USAIN Cornhole Tournament<br>
</b>At the 2008 USAIN Congress in Wooster, a team from IAALD won out over
a team from CABI to win the inaugural USAIN Cornhole Tournament. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/05/iaald-wins-usain-cornhole-tournament.html">
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<b>IAALD Africa chapter web site re-launched<br>
</b>The Chapter recently launched a completely renewed web site. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/07/iaald-africa-chapter-web-site-re.html">
More details</a><br><br>
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<b>Managing AgResearch information in Asia-Pacific<br>
</b>In April 2008, organizations participating in the Asia-Pacific
Agricultural Research Information System (APARIS) met in Bangkok. The
meeting report is now available. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/07/managing-agresearch-information-in-asia.html">
More details</a><br>
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<b>NewsforDev: CTA aggregator helps track newsfeeds and more<br>
</b>CTA recently announced a new service for development practitioners.
NewsforDev employs RSS and e-mail news technology to bring together
knowledge and information for development practitioners. It cleverly
tracks 600 plus newsfeed to create a number of thematic dossiers on
topics like agriculture. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/06/newsfordev-cta-aggregator-helps-track.html">
More details</a><br>
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<b>Improving research data sharing and management<br>
</b>The UK's Research Information Network (RIN) just published a report
on a project to investigate the publication and quality assurance of
research data. The report 'To Share or not to Share: Publication and
Quality Assurance of Research Data Outputs', finds that realising the
full potential of data requires further progress in data management
policies and practice. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/06/improving-research-data-sharing-and.html">
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<b>Communicating agribusiness with social media and Internet<br>
</b>For several years, the people at ZimmComm New Media have used new
media web 2.0 to produce AgWired - reporting on "what’s new in the
world of agribusiness, targeting agricultural marketing &
communications professionals." -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/06/communicating-agribusiness-with-social.html">
More details</a><br>
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<b>JOE gets RSS<br>
</b>The Journal of Extension has added RSS to its existing email
subscription options. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/06/joe-gets-rss.html">More
details</a><br>
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<b>Knowledge sharing in agricultural research<br>
</b>After recent team discussions, the CGIAR's ICT-KM Program blogs have
recently seen a flurry of (interesting) activity. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/05/knowledge-sharing-in-agricultural.html">
More details</a> <br>
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<b>Information and Agricultural Progress Blog<br>
</b>Under the name 'Information and Agricultural Progress', Ajit Maru's
new blog gives his opinions on the "state of information and
knowledge access to agricultural communities and its use." -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/05/information-and-agricultural-progress.html">
More details</a><br>
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<b>'Allo Ingenier': Phone service for farmers in Cameroon<br>
</b>A news story from IRIN asks what a poor farmer in Cameroon does when
something goes wrong? Or when new information is needed. She doesn't have
books and libraries or access to the Internet. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/05/allo-ingenier-phone-service-for-farmers.html">
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<b>Learning to set agricultural information priorities<br>
</b>CTA recently developed a methodology to help determine priorities for
information services and their management. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/05/learning-to-sset-agricultural.html">
More details</a><br>
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<b>ICT for rural livelihoods 'knowledge map'<br>
</b>Between 2006 and 2007, ODI and partners were commissioned by the
World Bank Information for Development Program (infoDev) to produce a
Knowledge Map of ICTs and rural livelihoods. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/05/ict-for-rural-livelihoods-knowledge-map.html">
More details</a><br>
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<b>CAB eBooks: Dynamic, Definitive, Direct<br>
</b>In February of this year the beta version of CAB eBooks became live
online. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/05/cab-ebooks-dynamic-definitive-direct.html">
More details</a> <br>
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<b>FAO as a knowledge organization<br>
</b>The 400 plus pages report of the 'Independent External Evaluation of
FAO' was recently made available on the FAO website. Looking at all
aspects of the organization's work, the evaluation team discusses its
information, knowledge sharing and communication activities in several
places. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/05/fao-as-knowledge-organization.html">
More details</a><br>
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<b>NAL Update<br>
</b>At USAIN's 2008 conference, Peter Young and colleagues gave an update
on recent developments at the National Agricultural Library. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/04/nal-update.html">More
details</a><br>
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<b>Preserving indigenous knowledge<br>
</b>Indigenous peoples all over the world are today using technology to
record and protect their traditional knowledge and culture. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/04/preserving-indigenous-knowledge.html">
More details</a><br>
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<b>Sri Lanka universities develop agricultural education content with
wikis<br>
</b>As part of its L3 Farmers project, the Commonwealth of Learning and
the Sri Lanka Association of Distance Educators recently organized a
workshop on Open (Agricultural) Education Resources. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/04/sri-lanka-universities-develop.html">
More details</a><br><br>
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<b>AgInfo systems as pathways out of rural poverty<br>
</b>Last year Cornell University and partners put together a
'WorldAginfo' Design Team to test the premise that "new
collaborative information technologies offer an exciting opportunity to
transform agricultural education and information systems in Asia and
Africa." The 300+ page report - entitled Building Pathways out of
Rural Poverty through Investments in Agricultural Information Systems -
provides a summary of the activities undertaken and recommendations for
areas of investment. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/04/aginfo-systems-as-pathways-out-of-rural.html">
More details</a> <br>
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<b>Connecting the aglibrary catalogue to Google Books<br>
</b>Colleagues at Wageningen UR library are getting excited about the
potential to link their library catalogue to full text books in Google.
Wouter Gerritsma explains how they got over some of the problems. -- >
<a href="http://iaald.blogspot.com/2008/04/connecting-aglibrary-catalogue-to.html">
More details</a><br><br>
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