Register now: Webinar on Should I stay or should I go now? Why communication is the critical component in disaster prevention
Even with the global sharing of data and sophisticated satellite systems that can flash messages around in the world in seconds – why do early warning systems still fail? It’s because information is only useful if you understand what it means and know what...
2020 International Symposium on COVID-19 at Academia Sinica, Taipei on 5-6 October
Since early 2020, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been spreading quickly through over 100 countries around the world, and millions of people have been infected as of May 2020. The outbreak of the pandemic has brought relentless challenges to human health...
Register now : Webinar on Data-Driven Governance in Sustainable Cities: New models for public-private data sharing
Date: 19 October 2020 Time: 18:00 HKT (3:30 IST) Duration: 45 min session and 15 min Question Answers (Total 1 hour) Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7106538784656814350 Open Data has contributed a lot to analyse and support urban...
TWO WEEKS TO GO! The deadline to submit session proposals for the International FAIR Convergence Symposium is 30 September
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will take place as an innovative, entirely virtual event on 30 November to 4 December Submit a proposal for a session, DEADLINE 30 September: https://conference.codata.org/FAIRconvergence2020/ Submit a proposal for a...
Webinar 16 Sept: African Universities in Post COVID-19: assessing the opportunities and challenges of online learning
On 16 September at 11:00 UTC / 14:00 Nairobi, Joseph Muliaro Wafula, member of the CODATA Executive Committee will participate in a webinar on assessing the opportunities and challenges of online learning for African Universities in the post COVID world....
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: September 2020 Edition
World Bank: Hurricanes don’t know borders. Neither does a pandemic. In the field of disaster risk management, when a new risk appears in an already risky situation, we call it a compound risk. The COVID-19 pandemic means communities need to prepare even more...
ONE MONTH TO GO! The deadline to submit session proposals for the International FAIR Convergence Symposium is 30 September
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will take place as an innovative, entirely virtual event on 30 November to 4 December Submit a proposal for a session, DEADLINE 30 September: https://conference.codata.org/FAIRconvergence2020/ Submit a proposal for a...
August 2020: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: SparkNN: A Distributed In-Memory Data Partitioning for KNN Queries on Big Spatial Data Author: Zaher Al Aghbari, Tasneem Ismail, Ibrahim Kamel URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-035 Title: Unified Geomagnetic Database from Different Observation Networks for...
Register now: Online Training Course Using Data for Effective Communication
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), India and Committee on Data of the International Science Council, (CODATA) Online Training Course: Using Data for Effective Communication A training programme on data sourcing, analysis and visualisation for non-profits, NGOs,...
Introduction to FAIR Data Stewardship
In partnership with the Hogeschool Leiden, the GO FAIR Foundation has developed a FAIR Data Stewardship Course. An online version will be running in October-November 2020. Research projects create a lot of data. Although these data should remain available, in...