Paris, 16 January 2006
EFITA newsletter / 242 / European Federation for Information
Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
Nitrogen stabilization and cycling in soils, sediments and composted wastes
See : http://listes.cru.fr/wws/info/sols-afes
2-7 April 2006 – VIENNA - Austria
The 2006 Simulation Track in Industry, Business & Services - The 20th
European Conference on Modelling & Simulation (ECMS 2006)
28 – 31 May 2006 – BONN - Germany
See: http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2006/index.html
Point of view (in Fr-English): Web services
ACTA Informatique has been lucky enough to participate in the European
GTIS-CAP project. The basic concept was to examine how the Land Parcel Information
System developed at European level could be used to develop traceability of
agricultural products from geo-localised field to fork… During this project,
the interest of the web service technology was confirmed since its enables
to perform precise and limited function once the users provide the web services
with adequate data (e.g. computation of a geo-identifier, computation of water
balance or pest and disease risks).
In a near future, we can imagine that there will be many web services available,
proposed by different research or commercial organisations. And it will up
to users and ICT companies to use / to integrate theses web services in their
commercial offers or not. The difficulty is here that commercial companies
will not integrate available web services within their own commercial offers
if there is no pressure from their clients. This makes necessary for research
or commercial organisations proposing web services, to have a strong promoting
actions to push final clients to ask their ICT providers to integrate web
services in their offers.
Contact: Guy WAKSMAN
Email: waksman(a)acta-informatique.fr
Wanted: information
From a later newsletter, which I lost in the meantime, I found information
on a conference "Information System in Sustainable Agriculture, Agroenvironment
and Food technology" to be held 20 to 23 September 2006 in Volos Greece.
I am not able to find the website. Can you help resending your relevant email?
Contact: Arne MØLLER
Email: email(a)agricontact.dk
Answer: Please have a look on the efita.net web site (newsletter dated 23
December 2005).
European Foresight Monitoring Network
Foresight is a process increasingly used by policy makers in Europeto
make better policy related decisions. It puts a lot of emphasis on the involvement
of stakeholders in vision building and in the development of scenarios for
sustainable futures. This provides policy makers with greater insight into
long-term issues of strategic importance for the region and helps to achieve
buy-in by stakeholders on complex public sector decisions. The use of websites,
databases, collaboration spaces and mailing lists play an increasingly important
role in lowering the cost of foresight, in reaching broader groups of stakeholders
and in improving the level of dissemination of the results. For these reasons
Foresight can be considered a domain of application of research in areas such
as governance, sustainability, e-government and e-participation.
In 2003 a European Commission financed working group developed a blueprint
for the application of foresight to the development of sustainable rural economies.
See: http://www.efmn.info/blueprints/AGRIBLUE.pdf
Started in late 2003 the EFMN has already identified 620 foresight initiatives
around the world. It has written 35 Briefs – 4 page documents on specific
issues of interest to policy makers and foresight practitioners.
See: http://www.efmn.info/data/stats.shtml?s=57400F32-7D5C09154206-2D62&var1=pagelist&var2=all&var3=brf
Some of them will be of interest to researchers and policy makers interested
in the future of the rural regions of Europe:
EFMN Brief No. 007: Archaeology in Ireland 2020
See:http://www.efmn.info/kb/efmn-brief7.pdf
EFMN Brief No. 013: Danish Green Agriculture 2024
See: http://www.efmn.info/kb/efmn-brief13.pdf
EFMN Brief No. 016: The BMW Region of Ireland 2025
See: http://www.efmn.info/kb/efmn-brief16.pdf
EFMN Brief No. 021: Transition to Sustainable Production Systems - Austria
2020
See: http://www.efmn.info/kb/efmn-brief21.pdf
EFMN Brief No. 026: Food Industry in Flanders- Towards 2010
See: http://www.efmn.info/kb/efmn-brief26.pdf
EFMN Brief No. 030: East German Cross Border Regions 2020
See: http://www.efmn.info/kb/efmn-brief30.pdf
A brief on the recently completed ‘Rural Ireland 2025’ will be available in
the near future. If anyone is aware of foresight done in your region on issues
related to the future of rural regions, please let us know. Especially if
you consider that it could be an interesting topic for a new brief. To contribute
in any way, please get in touch via the site or directly by email to me.
Contact: Patrick CREHAN
Email: patrick.crehan(a)cka.be
Healthy advice for the New Year!
Always consult your doctor before starting any exercise program!
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Have a Beer.
Contact: Mick HARKIN
Email: harkin(a)iol.ie