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Small is Beautiful: Promoting Community Empowerment in Model Forests of Colombia and Costa Rica

By: Josique Lorenzo, CATIE Summary: • A series of participatory workshops and focus groups are being conducted in Colombia and Costa Rica as part of the project ‘Improving Adaptive Capacity through […]

Multi-Institutional Research Collaboration: Regulation, Ethics and Power

By: Cath Traynor, Laura Foster & Tobias Schonwetter of Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Adaptation Project SUMMARY •The ‘Empowering Indigenous People and Knowledge Systems’ project has sought to use participatory […]

Tropixel Ciência Aberta – Tropixel Open Science – June 2015

By: Sarita Albagli of IBICT SUMMARY • An event was held in Ubatuba, Brazil during June 2015 to discuss the adoption of open science and provide visibility to regional initiatives […]

ASSESSING THE BENEFITS OF DATA SHARING: THE EXPERIENCE OF BRAZIL’S VIRTUAL HERBARIUM

By: Dora Ann Lange Canhos of CRIA SUMMARY: • Effective on-line sharing depends not only on the will to share data, but also on ensuring accessible infrastructure for users and data providers. • Independent […]

Project SOHA extended a helping hand…and we reached out and grasped it

By: Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou [1], Junior Researcher, Université de Yaoundé 2 (Cameroon), member of the SOHA project   From April 15 to 17, 2015, I organized and taught a seminar […]

Reflections from #ICTD2015 (May 15 – 18th, 2015)

Reflections from #ICTD2015 (May 15 – 18th, 2015)   Earlier this month, members of the OCSDNet team attended the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) […]