Appreciation from the organizer
Thank you very much for participating in
IAALD AFITA WCCA2008. We are happy to inform you that the conference closed with
a great success, having 250 participants from 46 countries and areas. We do
hope the conference brought you a lot of fruits.
See you soon.
The chairpersons Takashi Nagatuka / IAALD & Seishi
Ninomiya / AFITA
- WCCA/PanAFITA2009 with ASAEB from June 22nd-24th in Reno, Nevada, US
- EFITA2009 as JIAC from July 6th-8th, 2009 in Wageningen, Netherlands
- IAALD2010 from April 26th-29th, 2010 in Montpellier, France
- WCCA2010 with CIGR World Congress from June 13th-17th in Quebec City, Canada
- AFITA2010 in October or November, 2010 in Indonesia
.
Introduction
Though the population on the earth has not been really exploded yet, we
can see clues of food crisis; that is, the lack of food in some of the
developing countries is chronic and even major powers are facing the difficulties
to balance the productivity and the environmental requirement. As the balance
of the food supply and demand is now inevitably under the strategy of the
world trading mechanism and the control of the power, it is almost meaningless
to solve the crisis within a country. Only the international sharing and
cooperation for sustainable food productivity on the basis of information
sharing and mutual understanding could bring the solution.
The
Conference will provide an effective forum for agriculture related researchers
and information specialists to share and discuss latest development on
applications and developments in the use of Information Technologies. These
include new applications of well established and understood technologies to
innovative and entrepreneurial applications of emerging technologies, in
addition to issues related to policy and knowledge dissemination. The
Conference will also provide an appropriate forum for agricultural information
specialists for information dissemination, exchange and knowledge sharing. It
will cover a wide array of topics.
The Conference has shown a significant impact not only in
Asian countries in particular, but also in the whole world in general.
Conference theme
We believe that advancements in information and communication management,
knowledge creation and sharing, and information technologies can contribute
to the solution.
First,
the information communication technology such as the Internet that is now
dynamically changing our life style and social consciousness, will provide us a
best tool for the information sharing and mutual communication. Second, we
should not forget the possible contribution of information science to effective
and stable production by several models such as crop growth prediction and
decision support. Thus, the importance of the studies on agbioscience information
and agroinformatics is undoubtedly increasing.
The Asian countries are keeping the highest growth rate in the world and
the requirement on food is abruptly changing from quantity to quality.
In addition, the Asian countries have their individual agricultural features
that are not common in the USA or EU countries. The rice-dependency and
the farming scale are the typical examples. In this conference, sharing
such common features, researchers, engineers, administrators and farmers
who are interested in the informatization of the Asian and world agriculture,
will join together, exchange information and discuss about agbioscience
information and agroinformatics which will help us e to find some key points
to solve the world-wide food problems.
The Conference is a precious chance for participants from all over the
world to meet and share knowledge on all aspects of agbioscience information
and agroinformatics development. Participants are from diverse background,
including practitioners, researchers, educators and policy makers from
various disciplines such as computer science, information technology, library
and information science, archives, knowledge management, etc.
Topics of the confernce include but are not limited to:
Information technologies, Information, knowledge and
communication activities related to the applied life sciences, including:
agriculture, food from production to marketing, natural resources, fish and
wildlife, environment, extension, communication, and education.
Typical key words to cover
ICT policies for rural development, ICT adoption in rural community, e-government,
agricultural resources data banks and databases, agricultural information
system, e-agribusiness, traceability and virtual agri-markets, GAP, extension
service, digital library, education, training, pedagogical issues and e-learning,
intellectual property, security and privacy , social, institutional, and
policy issues,decision support system, remote sensing and GIS precision
farming, sensors, grid, web and communication systems, modeling, pattern
recognition, information retrieval, iltering and extraction, data/text/Web
mining, social media/Web 2.0 technologies, metadata, standards and cataloging,
taxonomy, ontology and the semantic Web, digital preservation, knowledge
management, open source tools and frameworks for agricultural information,
mobile services, human-computer interaction
The working language of the conference is English
Locally Hosted by
- Japanese Society of Agricultural Informatics
- Japanese Association of Agricultural Information
Specialists
- Tokyo University of Agriculture
- National Agriculture & Food Research Organization
|
