CBD Home. IMoSEB INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE CONVENES FINAL MEETING. The Final Meeting of the International Steering Committee of the Consultative Process Towards an International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity (IMoSEB) was held from 15-17 November 2007, in Montpellier, France.
The meeting addressed outcomes from six regional consultations that have taken place in the North American, African, European, Asian, South American, and the Pacific regions since January 2007. Participants focused on the needs and options for an IMoSEB, as well as on how to improve the science-policy interface for biodiversity at all levels. In their final Statement, the International Steering Committee, while not recommending the formation of a new institution, agreed to invite donors and governments to provide support for the further and urgent consideration of the establishment of a science-policy interface.
Link to further information. Afriseb : PagePrincipale. L’open data en Afrique, enjeu de développement. L’open data, ou donnée ouverte, phénomène rendu possible par la société numérique, fait son apparition en Afrique notamment francophone.
La notion d’open data recouvre les données ouvertes, c’est à dire librement accessibles et librement réutilisables. C’est la matière première de la société numérique d’aujourd’hui et de demain. A première vue, cela apparaît un peu obscur car on ne voit pas forcément quelles données, de qui, pour qui, comment et pourquoi.