http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3722 2013-05-25T12:34:12Z 2013-05-25T12:34:12Z Mangstl, Anton http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3953 2007-12-09T13:20:23Z 2006-12-11T20:31:43Z

Title: Importance of Agricultural Information in the Global Context Authors: Mangstl, Anton Abstract: Dr. Mangstl is a specialist in Information and Knowledge Management as well as Agronomy. Prior to joining FAO in 1996, he was Director of the Centre for Agricultural Documentation and Information (ZADI) Bonn, Germany. Earlier, he was Deputy to the Head of the Working Group on Crop Production and Informatics, Center for Life and Food Sciences in Agriculture, Freising-Weihenstephan (Germany). Dr. Mangstl serves as Director, Library and Documentation Systems Division, General Affairs and Information Department, for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He is the FAO Focal Point for participation in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and related follow-up (C.7 ICT Applications, E-Agriculture). Dr. Mangstl is in charge of the World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT), established by FAO in recognition of the intrinsic value of information in fighting global hunger and achieving food security. Through the WAICENT framework, FAO is able to effectively disseminate the Organization?s vast wealth of information on food and agriculture. The work of Dr. Mangstl?s Division on WAICENT includes capacity building and partnership initiatives which promote best practices in information management, sharing information management systems and tools, e-learning modules for capacity building through the Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) initiative and proactively participating in FAO?s interdepartmental WAICENT Committee. Dr. Mangstl has been involved in the Organization?s latest endeavour to effectively transform FAO into a Knowledge Organization. This transformation allows the Organization to learn from and give a voice to the agricultural community regarding a wide range of issues affecting Food Security and Agricultural Production today. In 2001, Dr. Mangstl was awarded Honorary Professor by the National Agriculture University of Ukraine, Prof. h.c. (UA). Further information: http://www.fao.org/gi/gil/about_en.asp - GIL Divisional Website, http://www.fao.org/rdd/ - Bridging the Rural Digital Divide, http://www.imarkgroup.org/ - IMARK, http://www.fao.org/KnowledgeForum/index_en.htm - Knowledge Forum

2006-12-11T20:31:43Z Zazueta, Fedro http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3948 2006-12-12T07:04:38Z 2006-12-11T19:25:52Z

Title: Agriculture, Environmental Science, and Information Technology Authors: Zazueta, Fedro Abstract: Professor Zazueta is the Director of the Office of Academic Technology (OAT) at University of Florida (UFL), which provides information technology services in support of the academic mission of the University, including teaching, research, extension and outreach. At OAT, Dr. Zazueta has overseen the successful deployment of one of the nation?s largest enterprise level course management systems, a state-wide video transport infrastructure, grid-based high performance computing resources, and institution of a faculty training program focused on technology. Zazueta has taught and developed UFL courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, including web-based courses and distance education courses using multimedia, and helped launch the Agricultural Information Technology Minor. His reach extends to the international level, where he provides agricultural and biological engineering consultation and participates in university exchanges. In the 1990s, Zazueta led the creation of the IFAS Software Support Office, later folded into the IFAS Office of Information Technology, which was instrumental in accelerating the adoption of information technology by agricultural audiences in Florida. Professor Zazueta is currently Chair of the Education Division of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and Chair of the Information and Communication Technologies Technical Section of the International Commission of Agricultural Engineers (CIGR). Zazueta received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering from Colorado State University, and both his M.S. (Water Use and Conservation) and B.S. (Civil Engineering) at the Instituto Tecnol?gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, M?xico.

2006-12-11T19:25:52Z Giovannoni, James http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3734 2007-12-09T13:58:24Z 2006-11-07T03:23:47Z

Title: Bioinformatics: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Recovery Authors: Giovannoni, James Abstract: Dr. Giovannoni is a San Francisco native who received a BS in Biochemistry at UC Davis in 1985. Jim received a Ph.D. in Molecular and Physiological Plant Biology from University of California, Berkeley in 1990. Jim spent 1990-1992 as a post-doctoral research associate at Cornell University in the laboratory of Steve Tanksley. In 1992 Jim took a position as Assistant Professor in the Horticultural Sciences Department at Texas A&M where he developed a research program based on analysis of developmental determinants of fruit ripening using molecular genetic and genomics approaches. Jim has been a Plant Molecular Biologist with the USDA-ARS Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory in Ithaca, NY since late September 2000 and continues to work on tomato with emphases on genetic determinants of ripening and nutrient quality of fruit. Dr. Giovannoni?s laboratory is housed in the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) on the Cornell University campus. He holds the title of Scientist at the BTI and is an Adjunct Professor in the departments of Plant Biology, Plant Breeding and Horticultural Sciences at Cornell. The focus of research in the Giovannoni laboratory is molecular and genetic analysis of fruit ripening and related signal transduction systems with emphasis on aspects of nutritional quality. The laboratory is also part of a large National Science Foundation-funded tomato genomics consortium that recently initiated the international tomato genome sequencing effort. He has over 50 refereed publications and has five patents issued or pending.

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