NEWS
Finland invests €1.85 million in pan-European infrastructure for biomedical research
Source: ELIXIR
Web link: http://www.elixir-europe.org/page.php?page=news#17
Finland has made its first specific commitment to the development of European biomedical research infrastructures (BMS ESFRIs) by supporting a joint pilot infrastructure project in bioinformatics (ELIXIR), biobanking (BBMRI)
and translational research (EATRIS). The purpose of the funding is to ensure Finland’s commitment to the building
of these European infrastructures.
Historical Perspective: eInitiatives in Maharashtra Legislature Secretariat
Source: C-DAC
Web site: http://www.cdac.in/html/about/success/e_initiatives.asp
It was an initiative taken jointly by CDAC and the Maharashtra Legislature Secretariat (MLS) to harness the power of Information Technology (IT) in order to develop a comprehensive Integrated Computerized System to facilitate the
MLS in addressing its entire gamut of activities without time and cost overruns and with the best contemporary
technology and quality. The objective being, to improve its business processes and customer interfaces more efficiently.
Ministers promise decade for African science
Source: SciDev Net
Web site: http://www.scidev.net/en/news/ministers-promise-decade-for-african-science-.html
African science ministers agreed on ways of pushing the science agenda at the AMCOST meeting in Cairo. African
science ministers concluded a highlevel meeting in Egypt last month by declaring 2011–2020 the “decade for science in Africa”. The decision, taken at the end of the African Ministerial Council on Science and Technology (AMCOST) meeting aims to keep science and technology at the forefront of the continent’s political agenda.
DRIHMS Hydro-Meteorology Research questionnaire launched!
Source: DRIHMS consortium
The DRIHMS consortium would like to invite you to contribute to this questionnaire, which is available at http://www.drihms.eu/survey/survey and very much value your feedback!
The purpose of this questionnaire is to define important topics in Hydro-Meteorology Research that can benefit from
advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and thus set a joint HMR-ICT research and applications agenda.
Curing the Health Sector with ICT in Zambia
Source: eLearning Africa 2010
News Service - 6th edition
Web link: http://www.elearning-africa.com/newsportal/english/news238.php
QUZAMFOHR, the Zambia Forum for Health Research, equips health workers, lecturers, teachers, students and
managers with the eLearning skills they need for reading reliable, scientific literature electronically. At eLA 2010, Dr Joseph Kasonde, the Executive Director of ZAMFOHR, and Derrick Mwiinga Hamavhwa from the Zambia Forum for Health Research will outline how eLearning improves health practice and policy in Zambia.
TEIN3: Expansion marks new milestone on road to an inclusive information society in Asia
Source: GEANT newsletter
Web link: http://www.geant.net/Media_Centre/connect/Pages/april_2010_global_connectivity.aspx
New countries bring total number of partners to 19.
Now through the addition of seven countries in South Asia, TEIN3 will link over 45 million researchers, students and educationalists in 8,000 institutions, enabling closer collaboration to underpin critical projects, education and research across the region.
The beginning of a beautiful middleware friendship
Source: EGEE Newsletter
Who will look after distributed computing middleware in the EGI-era? A new project is poised to become the best thing to have ever happened to European middleware.
First PRACE Petaflop/s System Ready for European Researchers: Early Access Call Open
Source: PRACE consortium
Web link: www.prace-project.eu/hpc-access
PRACE allows researchers from across Europe to apply for time on the PRACE resources via a peer review process. This call marks the first opportunity for researchers to apply for PRACE resources. It is an early access call inviting applications for the first HPC system available to researchers through PRACE: the IBM BlueGene/P – JUGENE – hosted by the Gauss-Centre member site in Jülich, Germany. JUGENE offers computation power of one Petaflop/s and is one of the fastest computers in the world (number 4 on the latest Top 500 list of world’s most powerful computers).
