China’s First Hackathon for “Innovative Application for Agricultural Open Data” | CIARD

"Adapting to the trend of open data, promoting agricultural data sharing and application - those are a few of the problems that six teams aimed to tackle at a Hackathon during November 18th to 20th 2014 in the Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). The event, sponsored by GFAR, CIARD and FAO, was co-hosted by YPARD Asia. It was the first time China hosted a Hackathon for agricultural open data. The event represented a great platform for Chinese young professionals not only to follow the world trend and show their competence, but also to promote cooperation in information management between all the international organizations in the agricultural field ..."