VIDEO: Q&A with Inspire Challenge winner: Gamifying weather forecasting: “Let it rain” campaign
Watch Q&A with Sophie Rottmann (The Mediae Company) about the 2019 Inspire Challenge project “Gamifying weather forecasting: Let it rain campaign”
by Hannah Craig | Apr 8, 2020 | Inspire news, News, Video
Watch Q&A with Sophie Rottmann (The Mediae Company) about the 2019 Inspire Challenge project “Gamifying weather forecasting: Let it rain campaign”
by CGIAR-CSI | Mar 31, 2020 | Communities of Practice, Geospatial CoP
“Does anybody know a reliable source to extract temperature and rainfall data in 2017 and 2018 for specific locations in Burkina Faso ?” – HG
by CGIAR-CSI | Jan 21, 2020 | Geospatial CoP
A new Data Descriptor article published in the Nature Scientific Data describes CGIAR’s effort to downscale global climate projection data and make them more relevant for agricultural research.
by Hannah Craig | Jan 10, 2020 | Communities of Practice, Crop Modeling CoP, News
The Crop Modelling Community of Practice provided a mini-grant to Peter Jones of Waen Associates in order to solve MarkSim data dilemmas. Read about the journey to the solution: MetGrid files.
by Hannah Craig | Oct 21, 2019 | Access & Discoverability, News, Press Releases
aWhere and the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture announce open access to maps for economic resilience.
CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture advocates open data for agricultural research for development. It considers that opening up research data for scrutiny and reuse confers significant benefits to society.
However, the Platform appreciates that not all research data can be open and that a broad range of legitimate circumstances may require data to be restricted.
As an integral component of its advocacy for open data, the Platform promotes responsible data management through the entire research data lifecycle from planning, collecting, storing, disclosing or publishing, transferring, discovery and archiving.
These guidelines were created from information collected from: review on best and emerging practices across various sectors in the fast changing landscape of privacy and ethics (130 external resources); privacy and ethic materials sourced from seven CGIAR centers; first draft was circulated for input and feedback across CGIAR and incorporated into this edition. It’s important to note that this is an evolving document, the next stage is to consult externally for further input.
These Guidelines are intended to assist agricultural researchers handle privacy and personally identifiable information (PII) in the research project data lifecycle.
Ensure compatibility with the DMP-PII (as above) and also the purpose for which prior informed consent has been obtained
Ensure PII is stored securely to protect privacy, through organizational or project specific safeguards to prevent unauthorized access, accidental disclosure or breach of data (physical & technical)
Don’t store data in unsecured locations or on unsecured devices or servers
Don’t store encrypted data and encryption keys in locations where they can be easily accessed simultaneously
Don’t underestimate the importance and value of administrative safeguards to standardize practices (i.e. organizational policies, procedures and maintenance of security measures that are designed to protect private information, data and access)