[CODATA-international] Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology: Sharing knowledge with the wider community to improve public health and solve social challenges

[Simon CODATA]

IBM Cloud is collaborating with the ICT Centre of Excellence and Open Data (iCEOD) of the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and the initial locus of CODATA Kenya http://www.codata.org/membership/national-members/kenya <http://www.codata.org/membership/national-members/kenya>).  

IBM Cloud has recently published an article about this activity which will be of interest to the CODATA International Community.

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology: Sharing knowledge with the wider community to improve public health and solve social challenges
By building an open cloud data platform that academics and social entrepreneurs can use to access research datasets and build innovative mobile applications, JKUAT is able to preserve the value of its data and encourage the development of solutions for social and economic challenges across Kenya.

Read the rest of the story at http://ecc.ibm.com/case-study/us-en/ECCF-KUC12432USEN
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Updated CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement, 2015-2016: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830 <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830>

Call for Working Group and Review Circle Members: Standard Glossary for Research Data Management (IRIDIUM) <http://www.codata.org/working-groups/standard-glossary-for-research-data-management-iridium>

Legal Interoperability of Research Data: Principles and Implementation Guidelines <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.162241>
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