News Archives:
October 28, 2020
The fourth cohort of Inspire Challenge winners, innovative projects using big data for agricultural development and research, were awarded US$ 100,000 each at the 2020 virtual CGIAR Convention on Big Data in Agriculture.
October 9, 2020
Fifteen innovative big data projects have qualified as finalists of the 2020 CGIAR Inspire Challenge and will pitch at the upcoming virtual Convention on Big Data in Agriculture.
May 28, 2020
Underused data, big data analytics, and ICT survey tools promise to reveal new and useful insights into the complex, multi-actor markets that feed Nairobi’s growing urban population.
May 26, 2020
Additional funding will help catalyze the BIG DATA Platform’s portfolio of innovative, big data projects’ responses to food security challenges presented by the COVID-19 crisis.
March 30, 2020
A winning 2019 Inspire Challenge project led by WorldFish, the University of Queensland, and Wilderlab is revolutionizing aquaculture disease control using big data approaches and genomic sequencing technologies.
March 27, 2020
Live Q&A with Jérôme Delamare-Deboutteville (WorldFish), Andrew Barnes (University of Queensland), and Shaun Wilkinson (Wilderlab) about their 2019 Inspire Challenge project “Rapid genomic detection of aquaculture pathogens.”