Food Safety Information Leaders Come Together
At the District of Columbia (D.C.) lies the capital of the United States of America, the beautiful Washington D.C. And it is there, at the World Bank Group headquarters, where a number of great minds will meet on October 14th, [...]
“It’s the variety, stupid”
Well, I should have suspected it. But it was good to see more than 40 experts from around the world highlighting and explaining it: the special thing about big data in agriculture is its extreme variety. This is what you [...]
WE Are The Greeks
In this company, we always aimed at having a multi-cultural and multi-national team, to embrace and understand and appreciate diversity. During the years, our team has included people from Romania, Latvia, Belgium, UK, USA and other countries. Many of us [...]
Openness and e-infrastructures for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
On May 13th 2015, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the Unit of the European Commission responsible for e-infrastructures, organised a workshop on the way European e-infrastructures may support the activities of EFSA. The meeting followed up a series [...]
Big Data (all over) Europe: an opportunity ahead for food & agriculture
Is this the time for big data technologies to be streamlined in Europe? Are we going to see a wave of big data powered tools and applications in different application domains and industry sectors? This is the ambitious [...]
Impressions from the Open Data Institute (ODI) 2014 Annual Summit
In Agro-Know, we are right in the middle of several interesting things that are happening in relation to open data and its impact for research institutions and businesses. We are trying to help research institutions understand better and implement open [...]
A global alliance for food safety: reflections on the GFSP 2014 conference
While writing this, I am on the plane for home and trying to adjust from the summer weather of Cape Town to the chilly weather of Athens. But most of all, I am trying to digest a wealth of ideas, [...]
Takeaways from a meeting with a visionary
In July 2014, I visited Washington DC for a Global Food Safety Partnership (GFSP) meeting at the World Bank headquarters. I could spend a whole week at the United States so I took the opportunity in order to organise some [...]
Talking to FAO about data infrastructures and services
I have been working with the Agricultural Information Management (AIMS) team at the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN since 2007. It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to give an interview to the AIMS team on [...]
Open data+models for food safety: a first small step in making a really big difference
One of the great things about being part of the Knowledge & Learning Systems Working Group (KLSWG) at a private-public network like the Global Food Safety Partnership (GFSP) is that our team (a) works with some amazing people around [...]
Towards a data-powered world: should we expect the agri-food sector to change?
There has been quite a discussion during the past few months on the way that the big data trend and evolution is going to change the sector that we work in. During 2013, our work that was very traditionally described [...]
OpenEd-powered global food safety?
It was about a year ago when I traveled to snowy Michigan in order to take part to a very interesting event that the MSUglobal team of the Michigan State University (MSU) hosted in East Lansing: the Open Knowledge for [...]
Talk at the MSU & Gates Foundation Open Knowledge Convening
My talk on building tailor-made search engines as a way to disseminate agricultural knowledge. At the 2013 Open Knowledge for Agricultural Innovation Convening that has been co-organized by MSU Global and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Hosted under [...]