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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

THE RESAKSS DATA CHALLENGE

Kicking off an Africa-wide competition to develop innovative knowledge products using open data from ReSAKSS

Residences Mamoune

3 villa n°, Voie de degagement N

Dakar, Senegal

May 9, 2018

  • 9:30 – 12:30 pm (Africa/Dakar)
  • 5:30 – 8:30 am (US/Eastern)
  • 3:00 – 6:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

The ReSAKSS challenge is an Africa wide -diaspora included- competition targeting researchers, students, creative designers, developers and analysts and anyone passionate about data.  The competition will enable you to experiment, discover new tools, and create a community of practice working data in the most innovative way.

It will enable various groups of actors, whether in business, the media, or arts, civil society organizations to create content in their own line of occupation.  More generally, the challenge encourages diverse communities with different backgrounds to come together to use data to generate knowledge, discuss and exchange on the common interest for data.

The challenge will start end of April 2018 and will be open for a 4-month long call for applications.  Applications will be made through the dedicated ReSAKSS Challenge website.