UNCCD Secretariat is looking for external assistance for the analysis of data and information contained in the 2010 reports.  The require profile includes specific skills in econometric and statistical analysis.

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  Creative Commons is investing up to $100,000 to empower individuals and communities deeply rooted in the principles of openness and sharing. With the Catalyst Grants program, Creative Commons will seed activities around the globe that support our mission. Our goal is to scale our community’s efforts and support them in becoming self-sustainable. Through a rigorous public review and transparent evaluation process, the best proposals submitted by CC affiliates and the broader community, will be selected to receive $1,000–$10,000 to make their ideas a reality.

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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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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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In order to help achieve targets and address specific issues and/or objectives as outlined in the GBIF Work Programme 2009-2010, GBIF may commission time-bound and subject-specific Task Groups. The GBIF Secretariat invites proposals from organisations/institutions, research groups and individuals working in the area of biodiversity informatics, bioinformatics, ecoinformatics and/or related fields of scientific data management to coordinate the commissioning and activities of these Task Groups.

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All interested parties are invited to participate in the new OASIS eMIX Technical Committee. This group will work to define standards for exchanging energy characteristics, availability, and schedules to support the free and effective exchange of information. The eMIX TC will operate under the Royalty Free on Limited Terms mode of the OASIS IPR Policy. The 40+ TC proposers include representatives of OASIS Foundational Sponsors–IBM, Primeton, and Sun Microsystems–as well as Sponsors–EnerNOC, EPRI, TIBCO, U.S. NIST–and others. Edward Cazalet is the convener; a TC chair or two co-chairs will be elected at the first meeting, which will be held by teleconference on 15 Oct. Contact join@oasis-open.org for details on participation.

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UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre and Microsoft Research, Cambridge, invite applications for joint post-doctoral research scientists to research and develop novel global biodiversity models.

The project aims, to complement earlier work by the GLOBIO partnership, to collaborate with Microsoft Research and others to explore new approaches to model the response of biodiversity to multiple factors including, but not limited to, habitat loss and climate change. We aim to build a team of postdoctoral scientists that will combine various ideas and approaches from community and ecosystem ecology, with various global-scale data sets, to enable the international community to assess the impacts of alternative policies on biodiversity and ecosystem function.

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