Global Impact Study open-source inventory web application poster presentation

Global Impact Study developer Alex Tulinsky presented a poster, "Vizmo: Open-Source Tools for Geospatial Data in Web Applications," at University of Washington's GIS Day (Geographic Information Systems) on November 16, 2011. The poster he presented provides an overview of software components used in the upcoming 2.0 version release of the Global Impact Study inventory database web application.

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Communications and knowledge sharing for an open research project

The Global Impact Study's approach to communications and knowledge sharing has been evolving since the project started in 2007. Initial efforts focused on building a list of people and organizations who might be interested in the project, laying out our research design, and keeping folks up to date about new studies, early research outputs, and where we are in the process.

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Release of public access ICT venue database

The Global Impact Study is excited to announce the release of our public access ICT venue database. Utilizing the inventory data collected in Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Lithuania, and the Philippines, the web database offers multiple search options, three different visualizations of the data, and is part of the Global Impact Study's commitment to open research.

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Global Impact Study presents poster at IFLA

The Global Impact Study presented a poster, Open data and open tools: The Global Impact Study inventory and web application, at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) annual conference in Sweden. The theme of the conference — open access to knowledge — offered the perfect opportunity to highlight the project's achievements.

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Communications and knowledge-sharing discussion

In March 2010 Global Impact Study team members working on the in-depth studies, survey, and inventory activities gathered to harmonize impact indicators and discuss the project's approach to communications knowledge sharing. You can download the communications and knowledge-sharing presentation and view photos from the workshop.

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