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Ethics dialogues : experiencing ethics through 'things': open IoT, civil drones and wearable sensors
Boucher, Philip (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2015
This report responds with a methodological proposal to the quest for "Responsible Research and Innovation" which is presented as the European Commission's Horizon 2020 lemma. RRI is supported by five main pillars that mirror different commitments that are deemed to support responsibility in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015300005
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Ethics dialogues : experiencing ethics through 'things': open IoT, civil drones and wearable sensors
Boucher, Philip (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2015
This report responds with a methodological proposal to the quest for "Responsible Research and Innovation" which is presented as the European Commission's Horizon 2020 lemma. RRI is supported by five main pillars that mirror different commitments that are deemed to support responsibility in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015300007
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Civil drones in society : societal and ethics aspects of remotely piloted aircraft systems
Boucher, Philip (contributor) - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2014
Remotely piloted aviation systems (RPAS) or 'drones' are well known for their military uses, but they could also be used for a range of civil applications for state, industrial, commercial and recreational purposes. Regulatory changes are underway which will allow their use in domestic airspace,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015302342
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Civil drones in society : societal and ethics aspects of remotely piloted aircraft systems
Boucher, Philip (contributor) - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2014
Remotely piloted aviation systems (RPAS) or 'drones' are well known for their military uses, but they could also be used for a range of civil applications for state, industrial, commercial and recreational purposes. Regulatory changes are underway which will allow their use in domestic airspace,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015302344
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NEPAD Southern African Water Centres of Excellence : joint training course on sustainable water resources management in Southern Africa
Donin, Giorgia (contributor); Biedler, Murray (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2013
development of 3 Master's degree-level courses, namely: Ground water studies for Southern Africa; Water strategy and policy in … Southern Africa; Equitable, efficient and sustainable management of water resources - water project toolkit application. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015304504
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The African postharvest losses information system (APHLIS) : an innovative framework to analyse and compute quantitative postharvest losses for cereals under different farming and...
Rembold, F. (contributor); Hodges, R. (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2011
recent development in PHL estimation that provides the countries of East and Southern Africa with cereal PHL figures. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015310335
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Impact of El Niño on agriculture in Southern Africa for the 2015/2016 main season
Rembold, F. (contributor); Lemoine, G. (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2016
The 2015/2016 crop season in Southern Africa coincided with the peak of a strong El Niño in the Pacific Ocean, which … strongly influenced global rainfall patterns and in particular caused irregular rainfall distribution over Southern Africa both … imports from outside the region. A low production in South Africa will particularly affect Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015294173
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Impact of El Niño on agriculture in Southern Africa for the 2015/2016 main season
Rembold, F. (contributor); Lemoine, G. (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2016
The 2015/2016 crop season in Southern Africa coincided with the peak of a strong El Niño in the Pacific Ocean, which … strongly influenced global rainfall patterns and in particular caused irregular rainfall distribution over Southern Africa both … imports from outside the region. A low production in South Africa will particularly affect Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015294198
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Towards a country-wide mapping & monitoring of formal and informal settlements in South Africa : pilot-study in cooperation with the South African National Space Agency (SANSA)
Kemper, Thomas (contributor); Mudau, Nale (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2015
automated mapping of settlements, formal and informal, in the entire territory of South Africa. It relies on the methodology for … wall-to wall data set of the settlements of South Africa of 2012 in the second half of 2015. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015300056
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The ICT landscape in BRICs Countries : lessons from emerging economies : proceedings of the second international workshop, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 5 October 2011
Simon, Jean Paul (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2013
The Information Society Unit of the JRC-IPTS has been investigating the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector and its R&D in Asia for several years as an extension of the PREDICT project. The workshop was organised as part of this on-going research to gather the most recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015304353