Paris, 1 October 2007
EFITA newsletter / 330 / European Federation for Information
Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
Days of sorrow with the loss of my brother Gilles
See: http://www.istem.eu/ewb_pages/i/istem-710.php?PHPSESSID=e4a83e8208add6737a9c8bdd454298b6
(in French)
Web2ForDev 2007 Conference - Front runners on the use of modern technology
for (rural) development meet in Rome
>Pour
l’Afrique, l’innovation est la clé du partage des connaissances - Ramata
Sore
>Accepter
le Web.2 malgré les fossés qu’il crée - Ramata Sore
>A
new Web 2.0 SMS revolution for African markets? - Holly Ashley
>Is
the Participatory Web really in parallel with participatory development?
-Holly Ashley (IIED)
>Rejuvenate,
restore, protect: Australian Aboriginal cultural survival and Web 2.0 -
Holly Ashley (IIED)
>Is
the Participatory Web really in parallel with participatory development?
- Holly Ashley (IIED)
>Ecueils
et craintes face à l’appropriation des outils du Web par les populations rurales
- Gnona Afangbedji
>Les
organisateurs prennent le pouls de la conférence - Gnona Afangbedji
>"Democracy
wall" et « open space" s’invitent au débat sur le web2 - Gnona
Afangbedji
>Collaborative
Partnership on Forest, an innovative interagency - Brenda Zulu
>Participatory
Web for Development: Circling the point in a spiral formation - Brenda Zulu
>La
bourse du commerce agricole du Kenya tisse le lien entre agriculteurs et fermiers
du Kenya - Noel Tadegnon
>Le Web2 permet de se révolter
- Ibrahima Faye
>Plaidoyer
pour une meilleure appropriation des outils Web2 - Ibrahima Faye
>Semantic
Web tools to merge agro knowledge - Sarah Bel
>Innovation
- the disruptive fruit of participation - Dan McQuillan
++ Audio files
>Challenges
and opportunities about ICT’s in Africa - Chris Kgadima
>Helping
farmers to manage their farm activities - Chris Kgadima
>Tagging,
the best way to track information - Sarah Bel
>De
nouvelles photos de la première journée de la conférence web2fordev - Noel
Tadegnon
Contact : Hilde EUGELINK
E-mail: heugelink(a)iicd.org
Agritechnica exhibition latest figures: Over 2100 exhibitors, up 39 percent
taking the total to 2100 - International exhibitors have grown by 65%
13 – 17 November - HANOVER
> Over 2,111 exhibitors from 36 countries will be providing a complete overview
of modern agricultural machinery: http://www.agritechnica.com/wwagt07-en.0.html
> Due to higher producer prices in agriculture, the leeway of farmers regarding
new investments has improved within the past three years. According to Hermann
Merschroth, president of the VDMA Agricultural Machinery Association, the German
agricultural machinery industry, which represents approximately 10 % of global
agricultural machinery production, can once again record solid growth this year:
http://www.agritechnica.com/vdma07-en.0.html
> Agritechnica 2007 is the world’s platform for innovation in agricultural
machinery. This is clearly the case again this year, with many manufacturers
presenting numerous novelties with a high degree of innovativeness. These include
several trend-setting world innovations. These involve special-purpose, efficient
and intelligent machines and processes.
See: http://www.agritechnica.com/index.php?struts=publicArtikelDetail.do&id=1592&artikelId=1305&kategorieId=10&spracheId=2&bereich=News
Contact: Malene CONLONG
E-mail: mailto:m.conlong(a)dlg.org
SufalNet: regenerating former and abandoned landfills
14 November 2007 - BRUSSELS
On 14 November 2007 SufalNet and its partners from across Europe are organising
their final conference in Brussels: a conference on regenerating former and
abandoned landfills. We as lead-partner of SufalNet would like to invite you
to participate and attend this conference. Moderator and chairman of the conference
is Mr. Onno Hoes, councillor of the Province of Noord-Brabant and the conference
will be hosted by the Committee of the Regions. Attending the conference, including
lunch and reception, is free.
The primary purpose of the conference is to bring stakeholders, experts, policymakers
and politicians together to make a big step forward towards a sustainable Europe
by promoting regional policies on former and abandoned landfills. SufalNet can
generate regional and local policies in line with many of the Commission's key
regional development and environmental goals by implementing the Lisbon Agenda
and the Gothenburg Strategy. It shows how EU-(Interreg) funded projects can
bring in their benefits at the regional and local level as well.
See: http://www.sufalnet.net/
Contact: Mieke KESSELS
E-mail: mkessels2(a)brabant.nl
4th International Symposium on Management, Engineering and Informatics: MEI
'08
20 June - 2 July 2008 – ORLANDO - Florida, USA
See: http://sciiis.org/MEI2008
The Italians are so creative!
For several years, a man was having an affair with an Italian woman.
One night, she confided in him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his
reputation or his marriage, he paid her a large sum of money if she would go
to Italy to secretly have the child. If she stayed in Italy to raise the child,
he would also provide child support until the child turned 18.
She agreed, but asked how he would know when the baby was born. To keep it discrete,
he told her to simply mail him a post card, and write "Spaghetti"
on the back. He would then arrange for the child support payments to begin.
One day, about 9 months later, he came home to his confused wife. "Honey,"
she said, "you received a very strange post-card today." "Oh,
just give it to me and I'll explain it later," he said.
The wife obeyed and watched as her husband read the card, turned white, and
fainted.
On the card was written: "Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti.
Three with meatballs, two without. Send extra sauce."
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