Piers Bocock's Page

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Are you participating in OAWeek 2021? (You can update this later): Yes--definitely!

First name: Piers

Last name: Bocock

Organization/institution name: CGIAR Consortium

Type of institution: Other Research

What's your position?: Other

What's the level of OA awareness where you are?: High

What are your goals for OA Week?: Continue to build awareness across the CGIAR Consortium, and get Centers to vote to adopt our recently-passed Open Access and Data Management Policy. (See: www.cgiar.org/open

How did you hear of the OA Week site?: Colleague

Piers Bocock's Blog

CGIAR: Now Officially Open Access

CGIAR – the global research partnership for a food-secure future (www.cgiar.org) – has long been known as a leader in agricultural research for development (AR4D); but not necessarily considered a leader in easy, free, and open access to its research results and data. But this has changed. With a process that started in April 2012…

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Posted on December 5, 2013 at 10:18pm

World Development Information Day: Making Development Information Available to All

In 1972 The United Nations General Assembly established October 24 as World Development Information Day “to draw the attention of world public opinion to development problems and the need to strengthen international cooperation to solve them”. Today, one could argue that Development Information is widespread; there is plenty of awareness about the plight of less developed countries, and a good deal of international cooperation to address them. Now…

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Posted on October 24, 2013 at 12:59am