<div dir="ltr"><p style="font:14px/1.6 "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “<em style="line-height:inherit;font-style:italic">Designing TAPipedia: an information sharing platform for Capacity Development on Agricultural Innovation Systems in the Tropics</em>”.</p><p style="font:14px/1.6 "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The webinar will present the<span> </span><a style="color:rgb(43,166,203);line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none" href="http://www.tropagplatform.org/tapipedia" target="_blank">TAPipedia</a>, developed within the context of <a style="color:rgb(43,166,203);line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none" href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/" target="_blank">T</a><a style="color:rgb(43,166,203);line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none" href="http://www.tropagplatform.org/about" target="_blank">ropical Agriculture Platform</a><span> </span>(TAP). <span style="line-height:1.6;font-family:inherit">While this webinar addresses partners in the Tropical Agriculture Platform, it is open to content publishers, librarians, information management specialists, software developers, related data providers and other interested people.</span></p><p style="font:14px/1.6 "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,51)"><strong style="line-height:inherit;font-weight:bold">Abstract</strong></span></p><div style="font:14px/1.6 "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The webinar will discuss the concept for designing of<span> </span><a style="color:rgb(43,166,203);line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none" href="http://www.tropagplatform.org/tapipedia" target="_blank"><strong style="line-height:inherit;font-weight:bold">TAPipedia</strong></a>, an information sharing platform currently being developed as part of the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP), with members of the TAP CD Expert Group and Chairs of the TAP Global Task Force & TAP Steering Committee. TAPipedia is expected to help TAP members and other stakeholders address a number of challenges relevant for a more coherent delivery of Capacity Development (CD) for Agricultural Innovation System (AIS). TAPipedia will assist TAP members to present, explain and communicate the Framework on CD for AIS, so that it may be more easily tested, improved, adopted and implemented by stakeholders. TAPipedia will also allow stakeholders at different levels to share their own applied and context specific CD for AIS resources and to discover such knowledge from different partners and regions.</div><p style="font:14px/1.6 "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong style="color:rgb(153,0,51);line-height:1.6;font-family:inherit;font-weight:bold">Date</strong></p><p style="font:14px/1.6 "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p style="font:14px/1.6 "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">18 June 2015 - 14:00 Rome Time (Use<span> </span><a style="color:rgb(43,166,203);line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none" href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html" target="_blank">Time Converter</a><span> </span>to calculate the time difference between your location and Rome, Italy)</p><p style="font:14px/1.6 "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,51)"><strong style="line-height:inherit;font-weight:bold">Presenter</strong></span></p><p style="font:14px/1.6 "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong style="line-height:1.6;font-family:inherit;font-weight:bold"><img style="margin: 2px 0px 2px 2px; border: 0px currentColor; float: right;" alt="" src="http://aims.fao.org/sites/default/files/images/Nikos_Manouselis.png" width="60" height="64">Nikos Manouselis</strong><span style="line-height:1.6;font-family:inherit"><span> </span>is a co-founder and the CEO of Agro-Know, a research-oriented enterprise that focuses on knowledge-intensive technology innovation for agriculture and rural development. He has a diploma in Electronics & Computer Engineering, a M.Sc. in Operational Research, and a M.Sc. in Electronics & Computer Engineering, all from the </span><a style="color:rgb(43,166,203);line-height:1.6;font-family:inherit;text-decoration:none" href="http://www.tuc.gr/4992.html" target="_blank">Technical University of Crete</a><span style="line-height:1.6;font-family:inherit">, Greece. He also holds a PhD on the application of metadata technologies in the domain of agriculture, from the<span> </span></span><a style="color:rgb(43,166,203);line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none" href="http://infolab.aua.gr/" target="_blank"><font face="inherit"><span style="line-height:1.6">Informatics Laboratory</span></font></a><span style="line-height:1.6;font-family:inherit"><span> </span>of the<span> </span></span><a style="color:rgb(43,166,203);line-height:1.6;font-family:inherit;text-decoration:none" href="http://www2.aua.gr/el" target="_blank">Agricultural University of Athens (AUA)</a><span style="line-height:1.6;font-family:inherit">, Greece. Mr. Manouselis is currently working as a consultant for FAO’s Research and Extension Unit on the development of TAPipedia, an information sharing platform for Capacity Development on Agricultural Innovation Systems in the Tropics. </span> </p><p style="font:14px/1.6 "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,51)"><strong style="line-height:inherit;font-weight:bold">How to join</strong></span></p><p style="font:14px/1.6 "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The session is open to anyone but places are limited. If you are interested to attend the webinar, send an e-mail to<span> </span><a style="color:rgb(43,166,203);line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none" href="mailto:AIMS@fao.org">AIMS@fao.org</a>, containing the following information:</p><div style="font:14px/1.6 "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><ul style="font:14px/1.6 "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px 0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;direction:ltr">your name</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;direction:ltr">your affiliation</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;direction:ltr">your role</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;direction:ltr">your country</li></ul></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px">Thembani Malapela</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px"><div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">
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