[Open-access] New Webinars at AIMS:“Designing TAPipedia

[Thembani Malapela]

The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “*Designing TAPipedia: an
information sharing platform for Capacity Development on Agricultural
Innovation Systems in the Tropics*”.

The webinar will present the TAPipedia
<http://www.tropagplatform.org/tapipedia>, developed within the context of
T <https://pkp.sfu.ca/>ropical Agriculture Platform
<http://www.tropagplatform.org/about> (TAP). While this webinar addresses
partners in the Tropical Agriculture Platform, it is open to content
publishers, librarians, information management specialists, software
developers, related data providers and other interested people.

*Abstract*
The webinar will discuss the concept for designing of *TAPipedia*
<http://www.tropagplatform.org/tapipedia>, an information sharing platform
currently being developed as part of the Tropical Agriculture Platform
(TAP), with members of the TAP CD Expert Group and Chairs of the TAP Global
Task Force & TAP Steering Committee. TAPipedia is expected to help TAP
members and other stakeholders address a number of challenges relevant for
a more coherent delivery of Capacity Development (CD) for Agricultural
Innovation System (AIS). TAPipedia will assist TAP members to present,
explain and communicate the Framework on CD for AIS, so that it may be more
easily tested, improved, adopted and implemented by stakeholders. TAPipedia
will also allow stakeholders at different levels to share their own applied
and context specific CD for AIS resources and to discover such knowledge
from different partners and regions.

*Date*



18 June 2015  - 14:00 Rome Time (Use Time Converter
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html> to calculate the
time difference between your location and Rome, Italy)

*Presenter*

*Nikos Manouselis* is a co-founder and the CEO of Agro-Know, a
research-oriented enterprise that focuses on knowledge-intensive technology
innovation for agriculture and rural development. He has a diploma in
Electronics & Computer Engineering, a M.Sc. in Operational Research, and a
M.Sc. in Electronics & Computer Engineering, all from the Technical
University of Crete <http://www.tuc.gr/4992.html>, Greece. He also holds a
PhD on the application of metadata technologies in the domain of
agriculture, from the Informatics Laboratory <http://infolab.aua.gr/> of the
 Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) <http://www2.aua.gr/el>, Greece.
Mr. Manouselis is currently working as a consultant for FAO’s Research and
Extension Unit on the development of TAPipedia, an information sharing
platform for Capacity Development on Agricultural Innovation Systems in the
Tropics.

*How to join*

The session is open to anyone but places are limited. If you are interested
to attend the webinar, send an e-mail to AIMS at fao.org, containing the
following information:

   - your name
   - your affiliation
   - your role
   - your country

Thembani Malapela

Knowledge and Information Management Officer

Office of Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy

Tel: +39 06 570 55577

Skype: malapela

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