News from the PROLINNOVA GPP
Innovation Africa: a selection of contributions to the Innovation Africa Symposium, November 2006, Kampala, Africa
During its annual meeting in Beijing, China, in December 2007, the Programme Steering Committee of the Generation Challenge Programme adopted a new Executive Board mechanism to ensure that the Programme is governed by a panel of experts who are independent of the consortium members implementing the Programme.
The Programme Steering Committee has now invited the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (and other relevant bodies) to nominate qualified candidates to serve as members of the challenge programme Executive Board. A total of 7 positions are available.
Key requirements requested by the Program Steering Committee are that the members should be independent of the Program itself and that they should have expertise in relevant areas of science, finance and/or corporate governance.
They should also bring a strong understanding of the needs and perspectives of potential end users/beneficiaries of plant breeding outcomes in developing countries and be able to represent these needs effectively into the management of the Program.
Like the famous NPK fertilizer formula1 for plant growth, agricultural organizations and institutions require regular doses of the three information, knowledge and communication elements. In the right combinations, and with suitable tools and devices to formulate, spread and apply them, these ¿intellectual fertilizers¿ are critical inputs to rich and sustainable research ¿harvests.¿
Dr. Mark Holderness has been appointed as new Executive Secretary of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR).
GFAR and FAO presented a paper at the Special Session on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics : 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR07), Greece, October 11-12, 2007.
The paper, entitled "Proposed Architecture and Workflow for Managing and Sharing Distributed Information on Organizations Using a Central Registry File", has been published in the Conference proceedings and will be pusblished in the Springer post-proceedings.
The paper is available on the website of the Special Session:
The paper, entitled "Proposed Architecture and Workflow for Managing and Sharing Distributed Information on Organizations Using a Central Registry File", has been published in the Conference proceedings and will be pusblished in the Springer post-proceedings.
The paper is available on the website of the Special Session: