Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

Submitted by johannes.keizer on Mon, 26/04/2010 - 15:31

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. Specialized Agency to combat hunger and poverty and to achieve sustainable rural development.

Website:

http://www.fao.org

Institution contact email:

stephen.rudgard@fao.org

Name of contact person:

Stephen Rudgard

Geographic scope

Country (location of headquarters):

Italy

Scope:

Global

Developing institutional readiness

1. Introduce and gain support for the CIARD Manifesto and Values in your institution:

Yes

2. Have your institution recognised as a CIARD partner:

Yes

3. Adopt a formal institutional information/communication strategy:

Yes

4. Develop the capacities of your institution to achieve the CIARD Checklist:

Yes

5. Develop national/local partner networks to share resources and skills:

Yes

Increasing the Availability, Accessibility and Applicability of Research Outputs

6. Ensure that your research outputs are available digitally:

Yes

7. Develop institutional or thematic repositories of your outputs as open archives:

Yes

8. Use international metadata standards, data exchange protocols, and vocabularies:

Yes

9. Develop a clearly defined licensing policy for your outputs:

Yes

10. Optimize the structure and the content of your web sites for search engines:

Yes

11. Share your metadata by participating in international information systems:

Yes

12. Use ‘social networking’ media and applications to share your outputs:

Yes

13. Build formal and informal networks to repackage your outputs:

Yes

Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development