04
Jan
Posted by Asghar In Conservation Commons
In the first days of opening the final version for signature (December 2009), Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC)have signed the Charter and according to the article 9.h of the Charter, by joining three qualified Organizational Members to make the document applicable, the Charter of the Friends of the Conservation Commons became a binding document.
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30
Dec
Posted by Asghar In Biodiversity, Events
The sixth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity will be held February 1-5, 2010, and will consider status and lessons learned from the 2010 target and provide CBD with a sound basis for developing post 2010 biodiversity targets. New targets will be set under CBD and the United Nations in the second half of 2010.
The conference is hosted by the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD).
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20
Dec
Posted by Asghar In General
Ten years ago the Centre for Biological Information Technology (CBIT) was established and the first in the series of Lucid identification tools was released. To celebrate this event, they are making the Lucid 3.3 version freely available. Lucid v3.3, which was released in 2006, operates on Windows98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista, OSX, Linux, and Solaris and is capable of producing keys for deployment on CD or the Internet.
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15
Dec
Posted by Asghar In Conservation Commons
Following several reviews of the Charter of the Friends of the Conservation Commons by ad-hoc Steering Committee, it is now approved and open for signature.
Please note that, according to the article 9.h of the Charter, by joining three qualified Organizational Members, the Charter will be a binding document but it shall be open for signature by individuals and institutions, who are the Signatories of the Commons.
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18
Nov
Posted by Asghar In Standards
The Google Book Settlement is probably the copyright story of the year — it’s complex, contentious, involves big players and big subjects — the future of books, perhaps good and evil — resulting in a vast amount of advocacy, punditry and academic analysis.
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16
Nov
Posted by Asghar In Data sets
Later this month, Global Footprint Network will release its 2009 National Footprint Accounts, with the latest data on the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity of over 100 nations and humanity as a whole.
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13
Nov
Posted by Asghar In Vacancies
As lawmakers around the world become more engaged on Internet policy, ensuring a robust and intelligent public debate around these issues becomes increasingly important. That’s why we’re announcing our third summer for the Google Policy Fellowship Program—to support students and organizations working on policy issues fundamental to the future of the Internet and its users.
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With only less than 52 days left before the start of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity (IYB), the website for this unique event in the history of the United Nations was officially launched at a ceremony in Montreal, held with more than 500 participants representing the 193 Parties to the Convention and partner organizations.
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10
Nov
Posted by Asghar In Standards
Why would university faculty choose to place their scholarship on electronic archives for a world-wide audience? Many US universities have adopted such mandates for public access to faculty research, perhaps most notably Harvard [1], MIT, and the University of Kansas [2]. These policies (and many more like them in various stages of consideration on campuses across the nation and world) are harbingers of a new order, one in which essentially all scholarly articles can be found and accessed by any interested individual.
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10
Nov
Posted by Asghar In Standards, Vacancies
In order to stimulate the process of sharing dataset-level metadata, the GBIF Secretariat is offering a limited number of small grants of up to € 5,000 to GBIF Participants to enable them to build and/or connect their existing metadata catalogues to the GBIF network.
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