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Carlos joined the Land Portal as Data Officer in January 2016. He is a Linked Open Data specialist with wide knowledge and expertise in semantic web technologies, computer science, software design and development, human computer interaction, productivity and networking. He has previously worked for Previously the Fundación CTIC as a researcher of the Semantic Technologies Unit, and has taken part in several national and European R&D projects and initiatives. He holds a Masters of Science in Engineering and Computing Science from the University of Oviedo.
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Displaying 271 - 280 of 349Weaver Press
Weaver Press is a dynamic independent publishing house formed in 1998 to publish books from and about Zimbabwe.
Weaver’s growing fiction list now features over 120 Zimbabwean short story writers, and our novelists include several international prize-winners who were first published by Weaver Press. Our non-fiction list focuses on political and social history, the environment, media issues, and women and children’s rights; it features many esteemed scholars from inside and outside Zimbabwe whose work looks at Zimbabwe’s developments from a wide range of viewpoints.
University of Warwick
The University of Warwick is a plate glass research university in Coventry, England. It was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand access to higher education
Alliance For Food Sovereignty in Africa
The Alliance For Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is a Pan African platform representing small holder farmers, pastoralists, hunter/gatherers, indigenous peoples, citizens and environmentalists from Africa who possess a strong voice that shapes policy on the continent in the area of community rights, family farming, promotion of traditional knowledge and knowledge systems, the environment and natural resource management.
African Institute for Agrarian Studies
The Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies was established as an independent Trust in 2002 to fulfil a need that had been observed through research, for a policy institute focused on addressing Africa's land and agrarian questions. The AIAS interacts with various organisations and countries to assist them in developing capacity for policy formulation and research. It also facilitates policy dialogue among governments, academics, civil society and others on land and agrarian development, especially the land rights of marginalised social groups.
Africa Research Institute
Africa Research Institute is an independent not-for-profit think-tank that was founded in February 2007. It is the only think-tank in the UK to focus exclusively on political, economic and social issues in sub-Saharan Africa. ARI strives to inform domestic and international policy making through publishing research and hosting interactive events. ARI’s mission is to draw attention to ideas or policies that have worked in Africa by highlighting and analysing best-practices in government, the economy and civil society.
Action for Southern Africa
ACTSA: Action for Southern Africa is the successor organisation to the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the United Kingdom. Established in 1994, ACTSA has since been campaigning with the people of southern Africa as they strive to build a better future; working for peace, democracy and development across the region. It is a coalition member of the Stop AIDS Campaign, the Trade Justice Movement, and Stop Climate Chaos.
Groupe de Recherche et d'Action sur le Foncier
Groupe de Recherche et d'Action sur le Foncier (GRAF) is a Burkinabé organisation that unites leading researchers and consultants working on the issue of land rights issues.
Linked Open Data, an innovative technology for land rights
The Land Portal Foundation has adopted a Linked Open Data Strategy, which contributes to making content and information available, and discoverable on the vast World Wide Web. An essential part of the Linked Open Data principles is making use of standards.
By visiting this section, a developer or IT practitioner will be able to discover further details regarding the technology behind the Land Portal Foundation, as well as how to make best use of it.
- What is Linked Open Data?
- Land Portal Linked Open Data: generation process
- Land Portal Data Model
- List of standards used by the Land Portal
- Controlled Vocabularies and Taxonomies developed by the Land Portal
- Triple Store, SPARQL endpoint & Graphs
- License of Land Portal content, data & software
- Contribute to the Land Portal!
- Linked Open Data Glossary
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Doing Business 2018: Reforming to Create Jobs
Fifteen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2018 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity:
Cadre d’analyse de la gouvernance foncière du Burkina Faso: Rapport final validé
Cadre d’analyse de la gouvernance foncière du Burkina Faso : Rapport final validé (French)